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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
107
 75.9×
Harvard University MA
79
 28.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA
51
 10.9×
Stanford University CA
48
 22.6×
Yale University CT
42
 27.2×
Columbia University NY
36
 12.9×
Cornell University NY
35
 18.8×
University of Michigan MI
32
 5.8×
California Institute of Technology CA
30
 112.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
24
 4.4×
New York University NY
22
 4.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
21
 3.5×
University of Chicago IL
21
 13.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
20
 10.5×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 1.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
17
 5.1×
Princeton University NJ
16
 17.0×
University of Southern California CA
16
 3.7×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 16.8×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 23.1×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 23.9×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.7×
Brown University RI
13
 12.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
13
 12.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 2.3×
CUNY City College NY
12
 6.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
12
 1.8×
University of Washington WA
11
 2.0×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 83.9×
Purdue University IN
11
 2.1×
University of Utah UT
10
 2.8×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
10
 19.2×
Texas A&M University TX
9
 1.6×
Duke University NC
8
 5.1×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
8
 3.7×
Oberlin College OH
8
 19.8×
Case Western Reserve University OH
8
 6.4×
University of Pittsburgh PA
7
 1.7×
Iowa State University IA
7
 1.9×
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
7
 12.1×

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
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
6.5%
 10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
6.3%
 7
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
3.3%
 16
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
2.5%
 11
California Institute of Technology CA
2.3%
 30
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.2%
 107
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.8%
 5
Lehigh University PA
1.7%
 7
Drexel University PA
1.5%
 5
Union College NY
1.4%
 7
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.3%
 8
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.2%
 13
CUNY City College NY
1.1%
 12
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.0%
 24
Bowdoin College ME
1.0%
 5
University of Maine ME
1.0%
 6
Northeastern University MA
1.0%
 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.9%
 6
University of Rochester NY
0.9%
 7
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.9%
 20
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.9%
 8
United States Naval Academy MD
0.8%
 15
Purdue University IN
0.8%
 11
University of Utah UT
0.8%
 10
Texas A&M University TX
0.8%
 9
Oberlin College OH
0.7%
 8
Stanford University CA
0.7%
 48
Iowa State University IA
0.7%
 7
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.7%
 51
Cornell University NY
0.7%
 35
Tulane University LA
0.7%
 6
Oregon State University OR
0.7%
 5
Rice University TX
0.6%
 5
University of Cincinnati OH
0.6%
 5
Howard University DC
0.6%
 6
Yale University CT
0.6%
 42
University of Minnesota MN
0.6%
 17
United States Military Academy NY
0.5%
 15
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.5%
 17
New York University NY
0.5%
 22