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
100
 36.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
75
 17.1×
Yale University CT
60
 39.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
58
 9.1×
University of Chicago IL
54
 28.9×
Columbia University NY
54
 15.1×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
52
 49.3×
Stanford University CA
45
 26.5×
Cornell University NY
36
 16.7×
California Institute of Technology CA
32
 135.7×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
24
 3.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
24
 10.9×
Princeton University NJ
22
 27.5×
New York University NY
21
 3.6×
University of Minnesota MN
19
 2.2×
University of California-San Francisco CA
18
 50.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
18
 4.1×
Duke University NC
18
 12.4×
University of Michigan MI
18
 3.6×
University of Washington WA
17
 3.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
14
 6.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
13
 3.7×
CUNY City College NY
12
 5.7×
Purdue University IN
12
 2.7×
The Rockefeller University NY
10
 608.1×
Northwestern University IL
10
 3.9×
Washington University in St Louis MO
9
 5.4×
Swarthmore College PA
9
 45.5×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
9
 3.0×
Brandeis University MA
9
 19.2×
Bryn Mawr College PA
8
 31.3×
Wesleyan University CT
8
 15.7×
University of Kansas KS
8
 1.8×
University of Virginia VA
8
 3.6×
University of Oregon OR
8
 4.0×
Smith College MA
8
 19.5×
Pennsylvania State University PA
8
 1.4×
Iowa State University IA
8
 2.0×
University of Rochester NY
8
 5.4×
Oberlin College OH
8
 24.4×

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
University of California-San Francisco CA
8.2%
 18
The Rockefeller University NY
6.7%
 10
California Institute of Technology CA
2.9%
 32
Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY
2.6%
 5
University of California-San Diego CA
1.9%
 14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.4%
 52
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.4%
 8
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.3%
 6
Brandeis University MA
1.3%
 9
Swarthmore College PA
1.3%
 9
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.2%
 58
Smith College MA
1.1%
 8
CUNY City College NY
1.1%
 12
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.1%
 24
University of Chicago IL
1.1%
 54
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.0%
 75
Oberlin College OH
1.0%
 8
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.0%
 9
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.9%
 9
University of Rochester NY
0.9%
 8
Purdue University IN
0.9%
 12
Yale University CT
0.8%
 60
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.8%
 24
University of California-Davis CA
0.8%
 7
Duke University NC
0.8%
 18
Oregon State University OR
0.8%
 6
Stanford University CA
0.7%
 45
Barnard College NY
0.7%
 6
Cornell University NY
0.7%
 36
Harvard University MA
0.7%
 100
Rice University TX
0.7%
 5
University of Washington WA
0.6%
 17
Iowa State University IA
0.6%
 8
University of Oregon OR
0.6%
 8
Wesleyan University CT
0.6%
 8
Columbia University NY
0.5%
 54
University of Minnesota MN
0.5%
 19
University of Cincinnati OH
0.5%
 6
Vanderbilt University TN
0.5%
 6
Princeton University NJ
0.5%
 22