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
The Juilliard School NY
101
 621.0×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
71
 61.4×
New York University NY
54
 13.4×
University of Michigan MI
53
 9.2×
Columbia University NY
47
 32.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
45
 7.6×
Yale University CT
41
 32.5×
Harvard University MA
34
 14.1×
Northwestern University IL
33
 14.9×
Brown University RI
27
 18.8×
Syracuse University NY
22
 6.4×
University of Southern California CA
22
 5.8×
SUNY at Purchase College NY
21
 20.4×
DePaul University IL
21
 8.3×
CUNY City College NY
19
 7.1×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
19
 72.0×
University of Minnesota MN
19
 1.9×
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
19
 149.5×
Emerson College MA
18
 29.7×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
18
 2.0×
Vassar College NY
17
 29.5×
Princeton University NJ
17
 15.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
17
 3.2×
University of Washington WA
17
 2.8×
University of Houston TX
16
 2.6×
The New School NY
16
 15.1×
Fordham University NY
16
 9.7×
University of Chicago IL
15
 16.0×
Pennsylvania State University PA
15
 1.9×
Stanford University CA
15
 9.4×
CUNY Hunter College NY
14
 3.9×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
14
 4.9×
University of Iowa IA
14
 3.0×
Illinois State University IL
14
 3.1×
Cornell University NY
13
 6.0×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
13
 3.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
12
 1.6×
The Catholic University of America DC
12
 16.9×
Williams College MA
12
 25.2×
American Musical and Dramatic Academy NY
12
 104.8×

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
American Musical and Dramatic Academy NY
19.7%
 12
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
18.1%
 19
Marymount Manhattan College NY
15.6%
 11
Webster University MO
14.4%
 11
SUNY at Purchase College NY
13.9%
 21
Carnegie Mellon University PA
11.6%
 71
The Juilliard School NY
10.2%
 101
Stephens College MO
9.5%
 5
Sarah Lawrence College NY
7.8%
 19
Emerson College MA
7.6%
 18
Ithaca College NY
7.4%
 11
The New School NY
7.3%
 16
Denison University OH
7.1%
 8
Bennington College VT
7.0%
 11
Roosevelt University IL
6.9%
 6
Oklahoma City University OK
6.9%
 6
DePaul University IL
6.9%
 21
Gallaudet University DC
6.8%
 5
Illinois State University IL
5.9%
 14
Columbia College Chicago IL
5.7%
 8
CUNY Hunter College NY
5.2%
 14
Skidmore College NY
5.1%
 5
Northeastern University Oakland CA
5.0%
 5
Bard College NY
4.6%
 8
Hofstra University NY
4.3%
 11
Rutgers University NJ
4.3%
 5
CUNY City College NY
4.2%
 19
Vassar College NY
3.9%
 17
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University FL
3.8%
 6
Missouri State University-Springfield MO
3.7%
 6
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
3.4%
 14
Barnard College NY
3.1%
 11
Towson University MD
3.0%
 5
The Catholic University of America DC
3.0%
 12
University of Houston TX
3.0%
 16
Fordham University NY
2.9%
 16
The New England Conservatory of Music MA
2.8%
 6
Brandeis University MA
2.8%
 8
Manhattan School of Music NY
2.7%
 6
New York University NY
2.7%
 54