College Outcomes Explorer

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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
438
 43.1×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
412
 94.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
289
 19.5×
Princeton University NJ
270
 100.3×
Cornell University NY
246
 30.0×
California Institute of Technology CA
246
 282.0×
University of Chicago IL
212
 27.0×
Stanford University CA
186
 34.1×
Columbia University NY
186
 14.5×
Yale University CT
130
 17.2×
University of Michigan MI
110
 3.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
86
 3.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
81
 6.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
70
 3.5×
University of Rochester NY
70
 14.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
63
 4.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
59
 6.1×
New York University NY
59
 2.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
58
 3.9×
University of Minnesota MN
57
 2.1×
CUNY City College NY
39
 4.0×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
39
 8.2×
Rice University TX
38
 20.0×
Ohio State University OH
38
 1.1×
Brown University RI
38
 11.0×
Purdue University IN
37
 1.8×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
35
 2.6×
University of Washington WA
35
 2.6×
Stony Brook University NY
34
 5.5×
Northwestern University IL
33
 3.9×
University of Pittsburgh PA
28
 2.1×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
28
 7.2×
University of California-San Diego CA
27
 3.3×
University of Virginia VA
26
 2.9×
Duke University NC
25
 3.7×
Case Western Reserve University OH
25
 4.4×
Iowa State University IA
24
 2.4×
Syracuse University NY
24
 2.1×
Dartmouth College NH
23
 11.0×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
22
 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
19.2%
 246
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
8.3%
 412
Stony Brook University NY
6.1%
 34
Princeton University NJ
5.3%
 270
University of Rochester NY
5.1%
 70
Cornell University NY
4.3%
 246
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4.3%
 28
Rice University TX
3.9%
 38
University of Chicago IL
3.5%
 212
University of California-Berkeley CA
3.4%
 289
CUNY City College NY
3.1%
 39
Swarthmore College PA
3.1%
 20
The Rockefeller University NY
3.1%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
3.1%
 25
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
2.9%
 20
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.9%
 13
University of California-San Diego CA
2.8%
 27
Brandeis University MA
2.7%
 18
Union College NY
2.7%
 9
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.6%
 14
Reed College OR
2.6%
 13
Stanford University CA
2.6%
 186
Fisk University TN
2.5%
 8
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.4%
 39
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.3%
 70
Clark University MA
2.3%
 12
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
2.3%
 7
Iowa State University IA
2.3%
 24
Whitman College WA
2.2%
 9
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.1%
 14
Harvard University MA
2.0%
 438
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.9%
 58
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.9%
 81
University of Maryland-College Park MD
1.9%
 35
DePauw University IN
1.8%
 8
Purdue University IN
1.8%
 37
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI
1.6%
 6
Drexel University PA
1.5%
 6
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.5%
 8
Amherst College MA
1.5%
 15