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
 82.5×
Harvard University MA
74
 23.4×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 12.2×
Stanford University CA
46
 29.8×
Yale University CT
41
 19.0×
Columbia University NY
36
 10.9×
Cornell University NY
35
 14.8×
University of Michigan MI
31
 5.6×
California Institute of Technology CA
27
 101.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 5.3×
University of Chicago IL
21
 11.2×
New York University NY
21
 4.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
20
 3.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD
18
 8.0×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 2.2×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 14.9×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 7.8×
University of Pennsylvania PA
15
 5.8×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 14.6×
Princeton University NJ
15
 19.1×
University of Southern California CA
14
 4.3×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.5×
CUNY City College NY
12
 5.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 3.0×
Brown University RI
12
 8.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
11
 11.6×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 68.7×
Purdue University IN
10
 2.5×
University of Washington WA
10
 2.1×
University of Utah UT
10
 2.8×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
9
 9.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
9
 1.6×
Texas A&M University TX
8
 1.8×
Duke University NC
8
 7.7×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
7
 4.0×
Case Western Reserve University OH
7
 4.5×
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
7
 9.6×
Union College NY
7
 13.6×
Oberlin College OH
7
 15.3×
Lehigh University PA
7
 5.6×

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
3.9%
 7
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
3.3%
 9
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
2.5%
 16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.0%
 96
California Institute of Technology CA
1.8%
 27
Union College NY
1.6%
 7
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
1.5%
 11
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.5%
 5
Drexel University PA
1.1%
 5
Lehigh University PA
1.0%
 7
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.0%
 23
CUNY City College NY
0.9%
 12
Carnegie Mellon University PA
0.9%
 11
Northeastern University MA
0.9%
 5
Bowdoin College ME
0.9%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.8%
 7
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.8%
 6
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.8%
 7
University of Rochester NY
0.7%
 6
Rice University TX
0.7%
 5
Stanford University CA
0.7%
 46
Purdue University IN
0.7%
 10
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.7%
 18
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.6%
 46
Texas A&M University TX
0.6%
 8
University of Utah UT
0.6%
 10
Cornell University NY
0.5%
 35
Oberlin College OH
0.5%
 7
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.5%
 15
United States Naval Academy MD
0.5%
 15
Iowa State University IA
0.5%
 7
Tulane University LA
0.5%
 6
University of Maine ME
0.4%
 6
Oregon State University OR
0.4%
 5
Howard University DC
0.4%
 6
University of Minnesota MN
0.4%
 17
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.4%
 5
Harvard University MA
0.4%
 74
New York University NY
0.4%
 21
University of Michigan MI
0.4%
 31