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
 35.0×
Columbia University NY
66
 24.1×
Yale University CT
41
 29.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
35
 4.8×
New York University NY
30
 6.9×
Princeton University NJ
26
 32.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
24
 7.5×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
22
 34.3×
University of Michigan MI
21
 3.5×
Stanford University CA
20
 12.3×
Cornell University NY
18
 6.9×
University of Chicago IL
14
 2.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
13
 1.7×
Brown University RI
13
 10.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
12
 5.5×
Boston University MA
11
 1.6×
United States Naval Academy MD
9
 10.9×
Georgetown University DC
9
 12.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
9
 2.2×
CUNY City College NY
9
 2.1×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
9
 1.0×
Duke University NC
8
 3.1×
Barnard College NY
8
 46.6×
University of Minnesota MN
7
 3.6×
University of Virginia VA
7
 3.4×
Northwestern University IL
7
 4.5×
Brigham Young University UT
6
 2.5×
Ohio State University OH
6
 0.5×
Temple University PA
6
 3.8×
Williams College MA
6
 24.4×
California Institute of Technology CA
6
 13.2×
University of Arizona AZ
5
 2.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
5
 1.9×
Pennsylvania State University PA
5
 0.7×
University of Rochester NY
5
 1.7×
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
5
 15.1×
Amherst College MA
5
 21.2×
University of Southern California CA
5
 0.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
5
 1.6×
The New School NY
5
 8.8×

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
1.2%
 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
0.8%
 22
Columbia University NY
0.7%
 66
Williams College MA
0.6%
 6
Temple University PA
0.5%
 6
Harvard University MA
0.5%
 93
United States Naval Academy MD
0.5%
 9
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.5%
 12
Amherst College MA
0.5%
 5
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.4%
 24
CUNY City College NY
0.4%
 9
Yale University CT
0.4%
 41
Princeton University NJ
0.4%
 26
The New School NY
0.4%
 5
Antioch College OH
0.3%
 5
New York University NY
0.3%
 30
Cornell University NY
0.3%
 18
Brigham Young University UT
0.3%
 6
Brown University RI
0.3%
 13
Wesleyan University CT
0.3%
 5
California Institute of Technology CA
0.2%
 6
University of Arizona AZ
0.2%
 5
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
0.2%
 5
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
0.2%
 9
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.2%
 35
Stanford University CA
0.2%
 20
University of Rochester NY
0.2%
 5
University of Michigan MI
0.1%
 21
Boston University MA
0.1%
 11
University of Chicago IL
0.1%
 14
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.1%
 13