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
Harvard University MA
237
 37.0×
University of Chicago IL
207
 49.1×
Columbia University NY
196
 27.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
141
 18.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
89
 10.0×
Yale University CT
89
 30.9×
University of Michigan MI
74
 7.7×
Stanford University CA
65
 18.2×
Cornell University NY
61
 14.3×
Princeton University NJ
58
 35.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
53
 8.3×
New York University NY
45
 4.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
44
 5.3×
Northwestern University IL
41
 9.4×
University of Minnesota MN
39
 2.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
34
 8.6×
Brandeis University MA
28
 26.1×
University of Washington WA
27
 2.8×
Brown University RI
25
 15.3×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
24
 3.4×
CUNY City College NY
24
 3.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
22
 2.0×
Ohio State University OH
21
 1.4×
The New School NY
19
 14.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
17
 2.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
17
 7.6×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
17
 3.1×
Michigan State University MI
16
 1.3×
Reed College OR
16
 51.0×
University of Oregon OR
16
 3.2×
Oberlin College OH
15
 11.6×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
15
 6.2×
Washington University in St Louis MO
15
 4.1×
Syracuse University NY
15
 2.9×
Stony Brook University NY
14
 3.9×
Swarthmore College PA
14
 32.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
14
 1.2×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
14
 2.9×
University of Southern California CA
13
 1.4×
Antioch College OH
13
 200.8×

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
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
6.2%
 11
University of Chicago IL
4.1%
 207
Reed College OR
3.6%
 16
The New School NY
3.5%
 19
Brandeis University MA
3.2%
 28
Antioch College OH
3.1%
 13
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.5%
 15
Carleton College MN
2.5%
 9
Stony Brook University NY
2.5%
 14
Binghamton University NY
2.2%
 7
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.2%
 89
Columbia University NY
2.0%
 196
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
1.9%
 8
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.9%
 141
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.8%
 34
Fisk University TN
1.8%
 8
CUNY City College NY
1.8%
 24
University at Albany NY
1.8%
 8
Swarthmore College PA
1.6%
 14
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.6%
 53
Harvard University MA
1.5%
 237
Wellesley College MA
1.4%
 7
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
1.4%
 14
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.4%
 15
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.4%
 7
University of California-San Diego CA
1.4%
 9
American University DC
1.3%
 7
Northwestern University IL
1.3%
 41
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.3%
 17
Yale University CT
1.3%
 89
Cornell University NY
1.3%
 61
Wayne State University MI
1.2%
 8
University of California-Irvine CA
1.1%
 8
Emory University GA
1.1%
 7
Princeton University NJ
1.1%
 58
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI
1.1%
 5
Amherst College MA
1.1%
 7
University of Michigan MI
1.1%
 74
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.0%
 17
Brown University RI
1.0%
 25