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
573
 61.4×
Columbia University NY
350
 61.6×
Yale University CT
280
 57.4×
New York University NY
194
 12.4×
Princeton University NJ
164
 37.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA
154
 7.4×
Stanford University CA
142
 23.1×
University of Michigan MI
139
 6.3×
University of Missouri MO
115
 6.4×
Cornell University NY
107
 12.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
103
 3.6×
Brown University RI
100
 18.0×
Northwestern University IL
95
 11.1×
University of Chicago IL
90
 24.9×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
88
 3.8×
University of Pennsylvania PA
87
 8.3×
Boston University MA
82
 4.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
80
 2.3×
Dartmouth College NH
79
 22.3×
Syracuse University NY
77
 5.8×
George Washington University DC
72
 9.2×
Georgetown University DC
66
 11.6×
Wesleyan University CT
65
 25.8×
University of Minnesota MN
63
 1.7×
University of Southern California CA
60
 4.1×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
59
 4.0×
University of Florida FL
57
 2.2×
University of Washington WA
55
 2.3×
Barnard College NY
55
 26.5×
American University DC
52
 8.9×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
51
 2.1×
Oberlin College OH
48
 18.2×
Duke University NC
47
 8.1×
Vassar College NY
46
 20.6×
CUNY City College NY
44
 4.3×
Howard University DC
43
 5.8×
Williams College MA
43
 23.4×
Smith College MA
40
 16.5×
University of Iowa IA
40
 2.2×
Temple University PA
39
 2.0×

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
Barnard College NY
15.3%
 55
Haverford College PA
14.8%
 17
Hobart William Smith Colleges NY
14.0%
 10
Empire State University NY
13.9%
 6
American University DC
13.5%
 52
University of Missouri MO
11.6%
 115
Wesleyan University CT
11.4%
 65
Simmons University MA
10.8%
 7
Connecticut College CT
10.8%
 9
Emerson College MA
10.7%
 25
Wellesley College MA
10.5%
 34
Colby College ME
10.5%
 15
Claremont McKenna College CA
10.5%
 5
Vassar College NY
10.5%
 46
Columbia University NY
10.5%
 350
Bennington College VT
10.4%
 16
Smith College MA
10.3%
 40
Occidental College CA
10.1%
 15
CUNY City College NY
9.8%
 44
New York University NY
9.7%
 194
Sarah Lawrence College NY
9.7%
 23
Randolph-Macon College VA
9.5%
 5
Reed College OR
9.5%
 16
The New School NY
9.4%
 20
San Francisco State University CA
9.3%
 38
Emory University GA
9.2%
 22
Oberlin College OH
9.2%
 48
Ithaca College NY
9.1%
 13
University of Massachusetts-Boston MA
9.1%
 6
Bowdoin College ME
8.9%
 26
Skidmore College NY
8.6%
 8
Swarthmore College PA
8.6%
 22
Hampshire College MA
8.5%
 8
Kenyon College OH
8.5%
 13
Harvard University MA
8.5%
 573
Grinnell College IA
8.4%
 9
Williams College MA
8.4%
 43
Binghamton University NY
8.3%
 13
William Paterson University of New Jersey NJ
8.3%
 5
Boston University MA
8.2%
 82