College Outcomes Explorer

Full University Alumni

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Which schools produce the most (left), and where it's the biggest part of the school's identity (right). "3×" = that school's notable alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Harvard University MA
93
 41.8×
Columbia University NY
66
 28.2×
Yale University CT
41
 40.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
35
 9.0×
New York University NY
30
 8.1×
Princeton University NJ
26
 40.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
24
 10.3×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
22
 26.0×
University of Michigan MI
21
 5.2×
Stanford University CA
20
 14.9×
Cornell University NY
18
 11.6×
University of Chicago IL
14
 6.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
13
 2.5×
Brown University RI
13
 16.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
12
 7.5×
Boston University MA
11
 3.0×
United States Naval Academy MD
9
 12.8×
Georgetown University DC
9
 9.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
9
 2.4×
CUNY City College NY
9
 4.6×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
9
 3.3×
Duke University NC
8
 5.6×
Barnard College NY
8
 38.2×
University of Minnesota MN
7
 1.6×
University of Virginia VA
7
 4.3×
Northwestern University IL
7
 4.6×
Brigham Young University UT
6
 2.6×
Ohio State University OH
6
 0.6×
Temple University PA
6
 2.7×
Williams College MA
6
 33.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
6
 25.9×
University of Arizona AZ
5
 2.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
5
 1.5×
Pennsylvania State University PA
5
 1.2×
University of Rochester NY
5
 3.7×
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
5
 84.1×
Amherst College MA
5
 30.8×
University of Southern California CA
5
 0.8×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
5
 2.3×
The New School NY
5
 10.1×

Biggest part of the school's identity

Shares are shrunk toward the national rate for small counts, and each school must clear the same size-scaled minimum (5–20 people) as the school pages.
School% of its noted alumniAlumni
Barnard College NY
1.3%
 8
Antioch College OH
1.1%
 5
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
1.1%
 5
Williams College MA
1.0%
 6
CUNY City College NY
0.9%
 9
Amherst College MA
0.8%
 5
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
0.7%
 9
Columbia University NY
0.7%
 66
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.6%
 24
The New School NY
0.6%
 5
Temple University PA
0.6%
 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
0.6%
 22
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.6%
 12
Princeton University NJ
0.6%
 26
Yale University CT
0.6%
 41
United States Naval Academy MD
0.5%
 9
Wesleyan University CT
0.5%
 5
Harvard University MA
0.5%
 93
Brown University RI
0.5%
 13
California Institute of Technology CA
0.5%
 6
New York University NY
0.5%
 30
Brigham Young University UT
0.5%
 6
Cornell University NY
0.4%
 18
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.4%
 35
University of Rochester NY
0.4%
 5
University of Arizona AZ
0.4%
 5
Boston University MA
0.3%
 11
Stanford University CA
0.3%
 20
University of Michigan MI
0.3%
 21
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.2%
 13
University of Chicago IL
0.2%
 14