College Outcomes Explorer

Undergrad Alumni

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Comparing undergrad 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
197
 189.2×
Harvard University MA
159
 65.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
131
 24.3×
Princeton University NJ
102
 89.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
98
 487.8×
University of Chicago IL
93
 98.9×
Cornell University NY
78
 35.9×
Stanford University CA
67
 42.0×
Columbia University NY
61
 41.3×
University of Michigan MI
45
 7.8×
Yale University CT
43
 33.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
35
 4.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
34
 28.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
28
 4.7×
University of Rochester NY
28
 22.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
25
 2.8×
Stony Brook University NY
24
 8.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
24
 3.5×
University of Minnesota MN
24
 2.4×
New York University NY
21
 5.2×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
20
 3.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA
20
 7.3×
CUNY City College NY
18
 6.7×
University of Washington WA
17
 2.7×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
15
 12.9×
Brown University RI
15
 10.4×
Pennsylvania State University PA
15
 1.9×
University of Pittsburgh PA
14
 3.2×
Iowa State University IA
14
 2.7×
Rice University TX
14
 19.5×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
13
 3.2×
Boston University MA
12
 2.8×
Northwestern University IL
12
 5.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
12
 3.0×
Purdue University IN
11
 1.5×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
11
 9.8×
Michigan State University MI
10
 1.2×
University of Southern California CA
10
 2.6×
Case Western Reserve University OH
10
 13.1×
Syracuse University NY
10
 2.9×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
21.5%
 98
Stony Brook University NY
9.6%
 24
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
9.3%
 197
University of Rochester NY
8.7%
 28
University of Chicago IL
4.9%
 93
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4.4%
 11
Johns Hopkins University MD
4.2%
 34
CUNY City College NY
4.0%
 18
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
3.9%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
3.8%
 10
University of California-Berkeley CA
3.7%
 131
Princeton University NJ
3.7%
 102
Reed College OR
3.5%
 6
Cornell University NY
3.4%
 78
University of California-San Diego CA
3.3%
 12
Rice University TX
3.1%
 14
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.9%
 8
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
2.6%
 13
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.5%
 15
Drexel University PA
2.5%
 5
Brandeis University MA
2.4%
 7
Harvard University MA
2.4%
 159
Iowa State University IA
2.3%
 14
Stanford University CA
2.1%
 67
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.0%
 24
Swarthmore College PA
2.0%
 5
University of Maryland-College Park MD
1.9%
 20
Columbia University NY
1.8%
 61
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.6%
 14
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.5%
 25
Union College NY
1.4%
 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.4%
 35
Amherst College MA
1.3%
 6
University of New Mexico NM
1.3%
 6
Purdue University IN
1.3%
 11
University of Minnesota MN
1.3%
 24
Yale University CT
1.3%
 43
University at Buffalo NY
1.2%
 5
Boston University MA
1.2%
 12
University of Michigan MI
1.2%
 45