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
Harvard University MA
416
 42.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
411
 95.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
289
 19.7×
Princeton University NJ
270
 101.6×
Cornell University NY
246
 30.4×
California Institute of Technology CA
246
 285.6×
University of Chicago IL
209
 26.3×
Stanford University CA
184
 34.2×
Columbia University NY
171
 13.7×
Yale University CT
121
 16.7×
University of Michigan MI
102
 3.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
86
 3.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
81
 6.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
70
 3.6×
University of Rochester NY
70
 14.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
62
 4.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
58
 4.0×
University of Minnesota MN
57
 2.1×
New York University NY
54
 2.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
50
 5.3×
CUNY City College NY
39
 4.1×
Rice University TX
38
 20.2×
Ohio State University OH
38
 1.1×
Brown University RI
38
 11.1×
Purdue University IN
37
 1.9×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
35
 6.7×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
35
 2.6×
University of Washington WA
35
 2.6×
Stony Brook University NY
34
 5.6×
Northwestern University IL
33
 3.9×
University of Pittsburgh PA
28
 2.1×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
28
 7.3×
University of California-San Diego CA
26
 3.3×
University of Virginia VA
26
 2.9×
Duke University NC
25
 3.8×
Iowa State University IA
24
 2.5×
Syracuse University NY
24
 2.1×
Case Western Reserve University OH
24
 4.4×
Dartmouth College NH
23
 11.1×
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
8.6%
 411
University of Rochester NY
7.4%
 70
Stony Brook University NY
6.2%
 34
Princeton University NJ
5.4%
 270
Cornell University NY
4.6%
 246
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4.3%
 28
Rice University TX
4.0%
 38
University of Chicago IL
3.7%
 209
University of California-Berkeley CA
3.5%
 289
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
3.4%
 13
Case Western Reserve University OH
3.3%
 24
CUNY City College NY
3.1%
 39
Swarthmore College PA
3.1%
 20
The Rockefeller University NY
3.1%
 5
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
2.9%
 20
University of California-San Diego CA
2.9%
 26
Harvard University MA
2.9%
 416
Brandeis University MA
2.7%
 18
Union College NY
2.7%
 9
Stanford University CA
2.7%
 184
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.6%
 14
Reed College OR
2.6%
 13
Fisk University TN
2.6%
 8
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.4%
 70
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.3%
 81
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
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.0%
 35
The University of Texas at Austin TX
2.0%
 58
University of Maryland-College Park MD
1.9%
 35
DePauw University IN
1.8%
 8
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.8%
 50
Purdue University IN
1.8%
 37
Columbia University NY
1.8%
 171
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI
1.6%
 6
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.6%
 8