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
952
 68.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
466
 66.9×
University of Chicago IL
419
 54.7×
Columbia University NY
319
 23.0×
Yale University CT
316
 41.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
297
 12.9×
Stanford University CA
287
 27.3×
Princeton University NJ
244
 52.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
178
 6.0×
Cornell University NY
162
 17.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
147
 8.9×
University of Michigan MI
138
 5.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD
107
 11.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
104
 4.1×
University of Minnesota MN
101
 2.3×
New York University NY
96
 3.8×
Northwestern University IL
90
 7.6×
University of Rochester NY
73
 11.6×
Brown University RI
61
 11.4×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
58
 2.2×
Duke University NC
57
 7.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
57
 11.0×
Georgetown University DC
56
 6.0×
Williams College MA
50
 34.6×
George Washington University DC
49
 3.2×
Boston University MA
49
 2.4×
Swarthmore College PA
48
 49.4×
University of Washington WA
47
 1.7×
University of Virginia VA
40
 3.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
36
 2.0×
Vanderbilt University TN
34
 4.9×
Purdue University IN
32
 1.3×
Michigan State University MI
32
 1.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
32
 0.9×
Ohio State University OH
32
 0.8×
Dartmouth College NH
30
 8.7×
American University DC
29
 3.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
29
 22.0×
Iowa State University IA
29
 1.6×
Tufts University MA
28
 4.9×

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
Hult International Business School MA
16.0%
 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
9.6%
 466
University of Rochester NY
9.6%
 73
University of Chicago IL
8.7%
 419
Swarthmore College PA
7.1%
 48
George Mason University VA
6.8%
 25
Harvard University MA
5.8%
 952
The New School NY
5.6%
 27
Reed College OR
5.4%
 20
Carnegie Mellon University PA
5.2%
 57
Williams College MA
5.2%
 50
Babson College MA
4.9%
 5
Johns Hopkins University MD
4.8%
 107
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
4.7%
 7
University of Pennsylvania PA
4.5%
 147
Stanford University CA
4.3%
 287
Yale University CT
4.3%
 316
Princeton University NJ
4.3%
 244
University of California-Berkeley CA
4.1%
 297
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
4.1%
 178
American University DC
3.8%
 29
Columbia University NY
3.7%
 319
Wellesley College MA
3.4%
 24
Binghamton University NY
3.3%
 10
Clark University MA
3.3%
 9
Northwestern University IL
3.3%
 90
University of Minnesota MN
3.3%
 101
Tufts University MA
3.2%
 28
Cornell University NY
3.2%
 162
Macalester College MN
3.1%
 5
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
3.1%
 36
Georgetown University DC
3.0%
 56
Grinnell College IA
3.0%
 7
Vanderbilt University TN
2.9%
 34
Beloit College WI
2.9%
 6
Amherst College MA
2.9%
 28
Iowa State University IA
2.9%
 29
Florida Atlantic University FL
2.9%
 5
Haverford College PA
2.8%
 8
Claremont Graduate University CA
2.7%
 5