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
 89.3×
Harvard University MA
74
 22.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 12.5×
Stanford University CA
46
 34.9×
Yale University CT
41
 12.2×
Columbia University NY
36
 8.2×
Cornell University NY
35
 10.6×
University of Michigan MI
31
 5.2×
California Institute of Technology CA
27
 81.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 5.2×
University of Chicago IL
21
 7.8×
New York University NY
21
 3.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
20
 2.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
18
 7.3×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 2.2×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 12.8×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 2.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
15
 7.2×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 8.5×
Princeton University NJ
15
 19.8×
University of Southern California CA
14
 4.5×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.4×
CUNY City College NY
12
 4.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 3.0×
Brown University RI
12
 7.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
11
 10.3×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 50.6×
Purdue University IN
10
 2.7×
University of Washington WA
10
 1.9×
University of Utah UT
10
 2.2×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
9
 5.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
9
 1.6×
Texas A&M University TX
8
 1.9×
Duke University NC
8
 9.9×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
7
 3.9×
Case Western Reserve University OH
7
 3.0×
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
7
 7.4×
Union College NY
7
 11.1×
Oberlin College OH
7
 13.1×
Lehigh University PA
7
 3.4×

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
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
2.1%
 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.8%
 96
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.7%
 16
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
1.4%
 9
California Institute of Technology CA
1.2%
 27
Union College NY
1.0%
 7
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.0%
 5
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
0.9%
 11
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.8%
 23
Northeastern University MA
0.8%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.7%
 12
Carnegie Mellon University PA
0.7%
 11
University of Rochester NY
0.7%
 6
Rice University TX
0.7%
 5
Stanford University CA
0.6%
 46
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.6%
 18
Bowdoin College ME
0.6%
 5
Drexel University PA
0.6%
 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.6%
 7
Purdue University IN
0.6%
 10
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.6%
 6
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.5%
 15
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.5%
 7
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.5%
 46
Lehigh University PA
0.5%
 7
Texas A&M University TX
0.4%
 8
Oberlin College OH
0.4%
 7
University of Utah UT
0.4%
 10
Cornell University NY
0.4%
 35
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.3%
 5
Harvard University MA
0.3%
 74
University of Minnesota MN
0.3%
 17
United States Naval Academy MD
0.3%
 15
Tulane University LA
0.3%
 6
Iowa State University IA
0.3%
 7
Howard University DC
0.3%
 6
University of Southern California CA
0.3%
 14
University of Michigan MI
0.3%
 31
New York University NY
0.3%
 21
Oregon State University OR
0.3%
 5