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
463
 42.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
458
 82.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
327
 17.8×
Princeton University NJ
297
 80.1×
California Institute of Technology CA
276
 263.6×
Cornell University NY
271
 37.0×
University of Chicago IL
218
 35.8×
Stanford University CA
212
 25.4×
Columbia University NY
180
 16.3×
Yale University CT
129
 21.2×
University of Michigan MI
117
 5.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
94
 4.0×
Johns Hopkins University MD
83
 11.1×
University of Rochester NY
77
 15.3×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
77
 3.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
70
 3.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
65
 2.4×
University of Minnesota MN
62
 1.8×
New York University NY
55
 2.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
54
 4.1×
University of Washington WA
45
 2.1×
Brown University RI
43
 10.1×
Stony Brook University NY
42
 4.3×
Purdue University IN
41
 2.0×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
41
 1.9×
CUNY City College NY
41
 5.6×
Rice University TX
41
 17.2×
Ohio State University OH
39
 1.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
38
 9.2×
Northwestern University IL
38
 4.0×
University of California-San Diego CA
37
 3.9×
University of Pittsburgh PA
32
 1.9×
Case Western Reserve University OH
31
 6.3×
Duke University NC
30
 4.8×
Syracuse University NY
30
 2.6×
University of Virginia VA
30
 2.8×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
30
 8.0×
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
University of Rochester NY
10.1%
 77
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
9.5%
 458
Stony Brook University NY
8.3%
 42
Whitman College WA
7.0%
 9
Harvey Mudd College CA
7.0%
 5
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
6.3%
 30
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
5.4%
 8
Cornell University NY
5.4%
 271
Princeton University NJ
5.2%
 297
Rice University TX
5.1%
 41
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
5.1%
 14
Case Western Reserve University OH
4.9%
 31
University of California-San Diego CA
4.6%
 37
University of Chicago IL
4.5%
 218
University of California-Berkeley CA
4.5%
 327
Clark University MA
4.3%
 12
The Rockefeller University NY
4.0%
 6
CUNY City College NY
3.9%
 41
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.8%
 19
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.7%
 83
Fisk University TN
3.5%
 8
Reed College OR
3.5%
 13
Carnegie Mellon University PA
3.5%
 38
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
3.5%
 29
Swarthmore College PA
3.4%
 23
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.3%
 77
Stanford University CA
3.2%
 212
University of Colorado Boulder CO
3.0%
 29
Brandeis University MA
2.9%
 22
Purdue University IN
2.9%
 41
University of Maryland-College Park MD
2.9%
 41
Harvard University MA
2.8%
 463
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
The University of Texas at Austin TX
2.3%
 65
Lehigh University PA
2.3%
 9