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
 27.3×
University of Chicago IL
207
 28.5×
Columbia University NY
196
 24.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
141
 14.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
89
 12.6×
Yale University CT
89
 21.5×
University of Michigan MI
74
 6.4×
Stanford University CA
65
 19.1×
Cornell University NY
61
 10.6×
Princeton University NJ
58
 31.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
53
 8.4×
New York University NY
45
 5.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
44
 5.0×
Northwestern University IL
41
 11.4×
University of Minnesota MN
39
 1.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD
34
 10.6×
Brandeis University MA
28
 14.5×
University of Washington WA
27
 2.5×
Brown University RI
25
 15.9×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
24
 2.5×
CUNY City College NY
24
 1.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
22
 1.6×
Ohio State University OH
21
 2.4×
The New School NY
19
 19.9×
University of Pittsburgh PA
17
 2.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
17
 6.7×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
17
 2.9×
Michigan State University MI
16
 0.9×
Reed College OR
16
 28.8×
University of Oregon OR
16
 2.1×
Oberlin College OH
15
 5.1×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
15
 4.7×
Washington University in St Louis MO
15
 2.1×
Syracuse University NY
15
 2.0×
Stony Brook University NY
14
 3.6×
Swarthmore College PA
14
 15.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
14
 0.8×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
14
 2.1×
University of Southern California CA
13
 1.0×
Antioch College OH
13
 86.2×

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
The New School NY
2.5%
 19
University of Chicago IL
2.4%
 207
American University DC
2.2%
 7
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
2.1%
 11
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.9%
 34
Wellesley College MA
1.6%
 7
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.6%
 89
Columbia University NY
1.5%
 196
Binghamton University NY
1.2%
 7
Brandeis University MA
1.2%
 28
Reed College OR
1.1%
 16
Stony Brook University NY
1.1%
 14
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.1%
 53
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
1.1%
 15
Carleton College MN
1.0%
 9
Northwestern University IL
0.9%
 41
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.9%
 141
Harvard University MA
0.9%
 237
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
0.9%
 8
University of California-San Diego CA
0.8%
 9
Amherst College MA
0.8%
 7
Cornell University NY
0.8%
 61
Purdue University IN
0.8%
 9
Antioch College OH
0.7%
 13
Yale University CT
0.7%
 89
Princeton University NJ
0.7%
 58
Brown University RI
0.7%
 25
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.7%
 17
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
0.7%
 14
New York University NY
0.6%
 45
Bryn Mawr College PA
0.6%
 7
University at Albany NY
0.6%
 8
University of Missouri MO
0.6%
 9
Emory University GA
0.6%
 7
University of Pittsburgh PA
0.5%
 17
Swarthmore College PA
0.5%
 14
Wayne State University MI
0.5%
 8
Smith College MA
0.5%
 8
Washington University in St Louis MO
0.5%
 15
University of Michigan MI
0.5%
 74