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
61
 33.3×
Harvard University MA
50
 16.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 14.9×
Columbia University NY
37
 11.0×
University of Chicago IL
29
 17.8×
University of Michigan MI
23
 8.3×
Cornell University NY
22
 4.6×
University of Kansas KS
21
 7.8×
Princeton University NJ
19
 7.3×
Stanford University CA
15
 2.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
10
 2.1×
Amherst College MA
10
 10.8×
George Washington University DC
10
 1.2×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
9
 1.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
9
 3.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
7
 1.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
6
 1.7×
University of Florida FL
6
 3.8×
Southern Methodist University TX
6
 33.9×
University of New Mexico NM
5
 2.2×
Louisiana State University LA
5
 2.2×
Kansas State University KS
5
 2.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
5
 1.1×
Oberlin College OH
5
 4.5×
University of Minnesota MN
5
 0.9×
University of Washington WA
5
 0.7×
University of Iowa IA
5
 1.2×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
5
 2.3×
New York University NY
5
 0.6×
University of Arizona AZ
4
 1.1×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
4
 1.4×
The University of Montana MT
4
 2.1×
California Institute of Technology CA
4
 2.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
4
 1.5×
Indiana University IN
4
 0.9×
Colgate University NY
4
 13.0×
University of Oklahoma OK
4
 9.6×
Duke University NC
4
 5.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
4
 6.4×
Brown University RI
4
 4.9×

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
Southern Methodist University TX
1.1%
 6
University of Chicago IL
0.6%
 29
University of Kansas KS
0.4%
 21
Yale University CT
0.4%
 61
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.4%
 46
Columbia University NY
0.3%
 37
University of Michigan MI
0.2%
 23
Harvard University MA
0.2%
 50
Amherst College MA
0.2%
 10
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.2%
 5
University of New Mexico NM
0.1%
 5
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.1%
 10
Cornell University NY
0.1%
 22
Kansas State University KS
0.1%
 5
Oberlin College OH
0.1%
 5
Louisiana State University LA
0.1%
 5
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.1%
 5
Princeton University NJ
0.1%
 19
George Washington University DC
0.1%
 10
Stanford University CA
0.0%
 15