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
172
 196.3×
Harvard University MA
141
 74.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
116
 24.3×
Princeton University NJ
92
 109.0×
University of Chicago IL
90
 67.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
86
 487.6×
Cornell University NY
71
 27.2×
Stanford University CA
58
 54.0×
Columbia University NY
55
 34.4×
University of Michigan MI
42
 4.7×
Yale University CT
42
 29.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
34
 17.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
32
 3.7×
University of Rochester NY
26
 18.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
24
 3.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
24
 4.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
23
 5.0×
Stony Brook University NY
21
 11.5×
University of Minnesota MN
21
 2.7×
New York University NY
20
 5.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
19
 10.2×
CUNY City College NY
17
 4.8×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
17
 3.6×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
14
 12.0×
Rice University TX
14
 28.8×
Pennsylvania State University PA
13
 2.5×
Brown University RI
13
 11.7×
University of Washington WA
12
 2.8×
Iowa State University IA
12
 3.1×
Northwestern University IL
11
 6.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
11
 2.7×
Boston University MA
11
 4.1×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
10
 5.6×
University of Southern California CA
10
 2.7×
Purdue University IN
10
 1.7×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
10
 5.5×
University of California-San Diego CA
9
 3.7×
Michigan State University MI
9
 2.1×
Bryn Mawr College PA
8
 20.6×
University of Arizona AZ
7
 1.5×

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
16.8%
 86
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
7.9%
 172
Stony Brook University NY
6.2%
 21
University of Rochester NY
5.0%
 26
University of Chicago IL
4.1%
 90
Princeton University NJ
3.8%
 92
CUNY City College NY
2.8%
 17
Cornell University NY
2.6%
 71
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.6%
 116
University of California-San Diego CA
2.5%
 9
Rice University TX
2.4%
 14
Harvard University MA
2.2%
 141
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.2%
 34
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.2%
 5
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.1%
 5
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.1%
 8
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
2.0%
 10
Union College NY
2.0%
 5
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.9%
 10
Reed College OR
1.9%
 6
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.6%
 14
Columbia University NY
1.5%
 55
Stanford University CA
1.5%
 58
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.4%
 19
Iowa State University IA
1.4%
 12
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.3%
 24
Brandeis University MA
1.3%
 5
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.3%
 23
University of Maryland-College Park MD
1.0%
 17
Swarthmore College PA
1.0%
 5
Yale University CT
1.0%
 42
Amherst College MA
1.0%
 5
Boston University MA
0.9%
 11
University of New Mexico NM
0.9%
 5
Brown University RI
0.8%
 13
University at Buffalo NY
0.8%
 5
University of Pittsburgh PA
0.8%
 11
Purdue University IN
0.8%
 10
New York University NY
0.8%
 20
University of Minnesota MN
0.8%
 21