College Outcomes Explorer

Full University Alumni

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physicist

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
486
 43.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
460
 81.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
327
 17.5×
Princeton University NJ
297
 78.8×
California Institute of Technology CA
276
 259.4×
Cornell University NY
271
 36.4×
University of Chicago IL
221
 35.7×
Stanford University CA
214
 25.2×
Columbia University NY
195
 17.4×
Yale University CT
138
 22.3×
University of Michigan MI
127
 5.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
94
 3.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
83
 10.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
77
 3.5×
University of Rochester NY
77
 15.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
71
 3.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
65
 2.4×
University of Pennsylvania PA
63
 4.7×
University of Minnesota MN
62
 1.8×
New York University NY
60
 2.9×
University of Washington WA
45
 2.1×
Brown University RI
43
 10.0×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
42
 10.0×
Stony Brook University NY
42
 4.3×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
41
 1.9×
CUNY City College NY
41
 5.5×
Purdue University IN
41
 2.0×
Rice University TX
41
 16.9×
Ohio State University OH
39
 1.2×
Northwestern University IL
38
 4.0×
University of California-San Diego CA
38
 4.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
32
 1.9×
Case Western Reserve University OH
32
 6.4×
Duke University NC
30
 4.8×
Syracuse University NY
30
 2.5×
University of Virginia VA
30
 2.8×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
30
 7.9×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
29
 2.0×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
29
 2.9×
Iowa State University IA
27
 1.8×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
21.4%
 276
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
9.1%
 460
Stony Brook University NY
8.3%
 42
Whitman College WA
7.0%
 9
Harvey Mudd College CA
7.0%
 5
University of Rochester NY
6.9%
 77
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
6.2%
 30
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
5.4%
 8
Princeton University NJ
5.1%
 297
Rice University TX
5.1%
 41
Cornell University NY
5.0%
 271
Case Western Reserve University OH
4.6%
 32
University of California-San Diego CA
4.4%
 38
University of California-Berkeley CA
4.3%
 327
Clark University MA
4.3%
 12
University of Chicago IL
4.2%
 221
The Rockefeller University NY
4.0%
 6
CUNY City College NY
3.9%
 41
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
3.8%
 14
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.8%
 19
Fisk University TN
3.5%
 8
Carnegie Mellon University PA
3.5%
 42
Reed College OR
3.5%
 13
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
3.5%
 29
Swarthmore College PA
3.4%
 23
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.2%
 77
Stanford University CA
3.0%
 214
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.0%
 83
Brandeis University MA
2.9%
 22
Purdue University IN
2.9%
 41
University of Maryland-College Park MD
2.9%
 41
University of Colorado Boulder CO
2.8%
 29
Iowa State University IA
2.7%
 27
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.6%
 16
DePauw University IN
2.5%
 8
Mount Holyoke College MA
2.4%
 9
Wellesley College MA
2.4%
 17
Lehigh University PA
2.3%
 9
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI
2.2%
 9
Pomona College CA
2.2%
 10