College Outcomes Explorer

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Comparing main university alumni only — counts and multiples below are within that lens (switch it with the tabs at the top).

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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
Yale University CT
80
 89.7×
Harvard University MA
56
 34.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
52
 19.3×
Columbia University NY
37
 22.9×
University of Chicago IL
35
 39.2×
University of Michigan MI
32
 10.1×
University of Kansas KS
26
 12.4×
Cornell University NY
23
 21.4×
Princeton University NJ
20
 36.8×
Stanford University CA
17
 13.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
14
 7.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
13
 3.3×
Amherst College MA
11
 81.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
11
 10.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
11
 3.7×
George Washington University DC
11
 6.2×
University of Iowa IA
9
 4.0×
University of Florida FL
9
 2.9×
University of New Mexico NM
8
 4.1×
Montana State University MT
7
 7.3×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
7
 2.3×
Southern Methodist University TX
6
 7.5×
New York University NY
6
 2.0×
University of Minnesota MN
6
 1.2×
University of Utah UT
6
 2.9×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
6
 2.9×
Michigan State University MI
6
 1.6×
Kansas State University KS
5
 3.0×
University of Washington WA
5
 1.6×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
5
 2.4×
Ohio State University OH
5
 1.1×
Louisiana State University LA
5
 2.1×
Oberlin College OH
5
 21.4×
Brown University RI
5
 8.1×
Colgate University NY
5
 22.6×
Duke University NC
5
 5.5×
University of Arizona AZ
5
 1.8×
The University of Montana MT
5
 5.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
5
 1.5×
Stony Brook University NY
4
 2.8×

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
Montana State University MT
2.2%
 7
University of Kansas KS
1.7%
 26
The University of Montana MT
1.1%
 5
Amherst College MA
1.1%
 11
Yale University CT
1.1%
 80
University of New Mexico NM
1.1%
 8
Colgate University NY
1.0%
 5
Kansas State University KS
0.8%
 5
Southern Methodist University TX
0.7%
 6
University of Chicago IL
0.7%
 35
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.7%
 52
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.6%
 6
George Washington University DC
0.5%
 11
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.5%
 11
University of Michigan MI
0.5%
 32
The University of Texas at Austin TX
0.5%
 13
Oberlin College OH
0.5%
 5
University of Utah UT
0.5%
 6
Cornell University NY
0.5%
 23
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.4%
 14
Columbia University NY
0.4%
 37
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.4%
 5
Princeton University NJ
0.4%
 20
University of Arizona AZ
0.3%
 5
Harvard University MA
0.3%
 56
Louisiana State University LA
0.3%
 5
Stanford University CA
0.3%
 17
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.2%
 11