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
Harvard University MA
549
 63.5×
Columbia University NY
334
 52.9×
Yale University CT
261
 58.7×
New York University NY
174
 13.9×
Princeton University NJ
156
 35.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
135
 6.7×
University of Michigan MI
134
 4.8×
Stanford University CA
128
 25.4×
University of Missouri MO
102
 5.1×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
98
 3.5×
Cornell University NY
96
 9.3×
Brown University RI
90
 24.0×
University of Chicago IL
85
 20.7×
Northwestern University IL
83
 13.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
80
 9.3×
Boston University MA
77
 6.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
76
 4.1×
Dartmouth College NH
75
 17.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
74
 2.9×
Syracuse University NY
71
 6.3×
George Washington University DC
64
 11.3×
Wesleyan University CT
62
 29.6×
University of Minnesota MN
61
 1.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
55
 3.8×
Georgetown University DC
55
 14.5×
Barnard College NY
54
 23.4×
University of Washington WA
54
 2.2×
University of Southern California CA
52
 5.0×
University of Florida FL
52
 2.7×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
45
 2.7×
American University DC
43
 12.8×
Oberlin College OH
43
 17.0×
CUNY City College NY
42
 2.5×
Vassar College NY
42
 20.0×
University of Iowa IA
40
 2.1×
Howard University DC
40
 7.2×
Williams College MA
39
 15.9×
University of Miami FL
38
 6.6×
Duke University NC
37
 8.3×
Smith College MA
36
 12.3×

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
American University DC
13.1%
 43
Barnard College NY
13.0%
 54
Columbia University NY
11.3%
 334
Colby College ME
11.3%
 14
Washington and Lee University VA
11.0%
 14
Wesleyan University CT
10.9%
 62
New York University NY
10.3%
 174
Wellesley College MA
10.3%
 32
Oberlin College OH
10.1%
 43
Reed College OR
10.0%
 16
The University of the South TN
9.9%
 10
Yale University CT
9.6%
 261
Bennington College VT
9.4%
 16
George Washington University DC
9.3%
 64
Harvard University MA
9.3%
 549
San Francisco State University CA
9.2%
 34
Amherst College MA
9.2%
 33
Haverford College PA
9.1%
 15
Vassar College NY
9.1%
 42
Connecticut College CT
9.1%
 9
Hampden-Sydney College VA
9.0%
 6
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
8.8%
 17
DePauw University IN
8.7%
 9
Emerson College MA
8.6%
 20
Sarah Lawrence College NY
8.6%
 21
Swarthmore College PA
8.4%
 21
Brown University RI
8.3%
 90
Smith College MA
8.3%
 36
Simmons University MA
8.3%
 7
Hobart William Smith Colleges NY
8.2%
 10
Howard University DC
8.2%
 40
Tufts University MA
8.1%
 22
Ithaca College NY
8.1%
 11
The New School NY
7.9%
 18
Occidental College CA
7.9%
 14
Loyola University New Orleans LA
7.8%
 5
Williams College MA
7.7%
 39
Grinnell College IA
7.7%
 9
Bard College NY
7.6%
 12
Binghamton University NY
7.6%
 13