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
96
 81.8×
Harvard University MA
74
 23.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 8.8×
Stanford University CA
46
 37.3×
Yale University CT
41
 2.2×
Columbia University NY
36
 2.7×
Cornell University NY
35
 3.0×
University of Michigan MI
31
 4.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
27
 28.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 2.9×
University of Chicago IL
21
 2.5×
New York University NY
21
 1.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
20
 1.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
18
 9.5×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 1.6×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 4.4×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 0.4×
University of Pennsylvania PA
15
 12.0×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 1.5×
Princeton University NJ
15
 10.5×
University of Southern California CA
14
 3.2×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.7×
CUNY City College NY
12
 1.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 1.6×
Brown University RI
12
 3.9×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
11
 3.7×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 13.4×
Purdue University IN
10
 2.0×
University of Washington WA
10
 1.4×
University of Utah UT
10
 0.7×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
9
 1.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
9
 1.0×
Texas A&M University TX
8
 1.2×
Duke University NC
8
 14.8×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
7
 2.2×
Case Western Reserve University OH
7
 0.7×
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
7
 3.0×
Union College NY
7
 2.9×
Oberlin College OH
7
 4.9×
Lehigh University PA
7
 0.7×

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.7%
 96
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.9%
 18
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.8%
 15
University of Rochester NY
0.6%
 6
Northeastern University MA
0.6%
 5
Stanford University CA
0.5%
 46
Rice University TX
0.5%
 5
Harvard University MA
0.4%
 74
California Institute of Technology CA
0.4%
 27
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
0.4%
 7
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
0.4%
 16
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.3%
 23
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.3%
 46
Purdue University IN
0.3%
 10
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.2%
 7
Carnegie Mellon University PA
0.2%
 11
University of Michigan MI
0.2%
 31
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
0.2%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.2%
 12
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.2%
 5
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
0.2%
 11
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
0.2%
 9
Bowdoin College ME
0.2%
 5
Union College NY
0.2%
 7
Brigham Young University UT
0.2%
 6
Oberlin College OH
0.2%
 7
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.2%
 6
University of Minnesota MN
0.2%
 17
Texas A&M University TX
0.1%
 8
University of Southern California CA
0.1%
 14
Princeton University NJ
0.1%
 15
Ohio State University OH
0.1%
 13
Drexel University PA
0.1%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.1%
 7
Cornell University NY
0.1%
 35
University of Chicago IL
0.1%
 21
University of Washington WA
0.1%
 10
Tulane University LA
0.1%
 6
Brown University RI
0.1%
 12
United States Naval Academy MD
0.1%
 15