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
 63.1×
Columbia University NY
334
 57.7×
Yale University CT
261
 58.5×
New York University NY
174
 13.1×
Princeton University NJ
156
 36.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
135
 7.0×
University of Michigan MI
134
 5.6×
Stanford University CA
128
 24.5×
University of Missouri MO
102
 5.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
98
 3.6×
Cornell University NY
96
 10.7×
Brown University RI
90
 20.1×
University of Chicago IL
85
 22.6×
Northwestern University IL
83
 12.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
80
 8.8×
Boston University MA
77
 5.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
76
 4.0×
Dartmouth College NH
75
 18.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
74
 2.7×
Syracuse University NY
71
 6.2×
George Washington University DC
64
 10.1×
Wesleyan University CT
62
 27.9×
University of Minnesota MN
61
 1.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
55
 3.9×
Georgetown University DC
55
 12.6×
Barnard College NY
54
 26.0×
University of Washington WA
54
 2.4×
University of Southern California CA
52
 4.5×
University of Florida FL
52
 2.5×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
45
 2.5×
American University DC
43
 10.5×
Oberlin College OH
43
 16.9×
CUNY City College NY
42
 3.5×
Vassar College NY
42
 20.5×
University of Iowa IA
40
 2.3×
Howard University DC
40
 6.4×
Williams College MA
39
 17.7×
University of Miami FL
38
 6.0×
Duke University NC
37
 7.7×
Smith College MA
36
 14.0×

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
15.0%
 54
American University DC
13.2%
 43
Colby College ME
12.6%
 14
Haverford College PA
12.1%
 15
Wesleyan University CT
12.0%
 62
Hobart William Smith Colleges NY
11.9%
 10
Columbia University NY
11.4%
 334
Wellesley College MA
11.4%
 32
Reed College OR
10.7%
 16
Bennington College VT
10.6%
 16
Connecticut College CT
10.6%
 9
Simmons University MA
10.5%
 7
Empire State University NY
10.3%
 6
Oberlin College OH
10.3%
 43
New York University NY
10.2%
 174
Vassar College NY
10.2%
 42
Washington and Lee University VA
10.1%
 14
The University of the South TN
9.9%
 10
Smith College MA
9.6%
 36
San Francisco State University CA
9.6%
 34
Hampden-Sydney College VA
9.5%
 6
Yale University CT
9.4%
 261
Grinnell College IA
9.4%
 9
Sarah Lawrence College NY
9.4%
 21
Harvard University MA
9.4%
 549
Occidental College CA
9.3%
 14
Emerson College MA
9.2%
 20
CUNY City College NY
9.1%
 42
University of Missouri MO
9.1%
 102
Amherst College MA
9.0%
 33
Swarthmore College PA
8.9%
 21
George Washington University DC
8.9%
 64
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
8.9%
 17
The New School NY
8.7%
 18
Ithaca College NY
8.7%
 11
Williams College MA
8.6%
 39
Lake Forest College IL
8.5%
 6
Beloit College WI
8.5%
 10
DePauw University IN
8.5%
 9
Binghamton University NY
8.4%
 13