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
248
 42.6×
University of Chicago IL
219
 68.0×
Columbia University NY
198
 34.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
150
 15.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
94
 7.5×
Yale University CT
90
 28.0×
University of Michigan MI
84
 7.4×
Stanford University CA
76
 17.2×
Cornell University NY
65
 16.8×
Princeton University NJ
59
 30.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
56
 8.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
51
 4.8×
New York University NY
49
 4.6×
Northwestern University IL
42
 8.4×
University of Minnesota MN
40
 2.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
36
 9.1×
Brandeis University MA
32
 26.6×
University of Washington WA
28
 2.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
28
 4.0×
Brown University RI
26
 11.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 1.7×
CUNY City College NY
24
 6.2×
The New School NY
23
 13.5×
Ohio State University OH
22
 1.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
18
 2.3×
Reed College OR
18
 49.7×
University of Pittsburgh PA
18
 2.1×
University of Oregon OR
17
 3.1×
Michigan State University MI
17
 1.2×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
17
 5.8×
Syracuse University NY
17
 2.8×
Oberlin College OH
16
 19.0×
Washington University in St Louis MO
16
 4.6×
Stony Brook University NY
16
 3.1×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
16
 5.8×
Duke University NC
15
 4.6×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
15
 3.1×
Swarthmore College PA
15
 36.7×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
14
 1.2×
Pennsylvania State University PA
14
 1.2×

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
7.1%
 11
Reed College OR
4.8%
 18
The New School NY
4.7%
 23
University of Chicago IL
4.5%
 219
Antioch College OH
4.2%
 13
Brandeis University MA
4.2%
 32
Fisk University TN
3.5%
 8
Stony Brook University NY
3.2%
 16
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.2%
 16
Clark Atlanta University GA
3.0%
 5
Carleton College MN
2.9%
 9
University at Albany NY
2.4%
 9
Binghamton University NY
2.3%
 7
CUNY City College NY
2.3%
 24
Columbia University NY
2.3%
 198
Swarthmore College PA
2.2%
 15
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.1%
 94
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.1%
 150
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
1.9%
 15
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
1.8%
 5
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.7%
 56
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
1.7%
 8
CUNY Queens College NY
1.7%
 6
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.6%
 16
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.6%
 36
Emory University GA
1.6%
 9
Northwestern University IL
1.5%
 42
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.5%
 18
Harvard University MA
1.5%
 248
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI
1.5%
 6
Oberlin College OH
1.5%
 16
University of Connecticut CT
1.5%
 12
University of California-Irvine CA
1.5%
 8
Wayne State University MI
1.4%
 9
University of California-San Diego CA
1.4%
 11
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.3%
 8
University of Minnesota MN
1.3%
 40
American University DC
1.3%
 10
Cornell University NY
1.3%
 65
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
1.3%
 28