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
36
 20.9×
New York University NY
29
 11.1×
Columbia University NY
28
 18.5×
Northwestern University IL
20
 14.0×
Yale University CT
20
 26.5×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
15
 24.8×
The Juilliard School NY
14
 290.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
13
 4.7×
University of Chicago IL
12
 11.4×
Cornell University NY
12
 7.5×
University of Michigan MI
11
 4.0×
Stanford University CA
10
 7.2×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
10
 14.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
10
 6.8×
University of Southern California CA
9
 4.4×
Boston University MA
9
 3.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
8
 2.1×
Dartmouth College NH
8
 20.5×
Princeton University NJ
8
 10.3×
University of Minnesota MN
7
 2.8×
Oberlin College OH
7
 31.2×
The New School NY
7
 14.8×
The Catholic University of America DC
6
 9.1×
Wesleyan University CT
6
 45.8×
California Institute of the Arts CA
6
 79.3×
Amherst College MA
6
 27.1×
University of Iowa IA
6
 3.9×
CUNY City College NY
5
 3.8×
Bennington College VT
5
 108.4×
San Francisco State University CA
5
 2.6×
Illinois State University IL
5
 5.7×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
4
 1.8×
Emerson College MA
4
 20.5×
Williams College MA
4
 21.7×
Smith College MA
4
 15.5×
Brown University RI
4
 6.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
4
 4.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
4
 2.8×
University of Houston TX
4
 1.8×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
4
 65.9×

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 Brooklyn College NY
2.0%
 10
Illinois State University IL
1.6%
 5
Bennington College VT
1.3%
 5
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.3%
 15
The New School NY
1.1%
 7
The Juilliard School NY
1.0%
 14
Wesleyan University CT
0.9%
 6
Oberlin College OH
0.7%
 7
California Institute of the Arts CA
0.7%
 6
New York University NY
0.6%
 29
Northwestern University IL
0.6%
 20
The Catholic University of America DC
0.6%
 6
San Francisco State University CA
0.5%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.5%
 5
Amherst College MA
0.4%
 6
Columbia University NY
0.4%
 28
Yale University CT
0.3%
 20
University of Chicago IL
0.3%
 12
Harvard University MA
0.2%
 36
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.2%
 10
Cornell University NY
0.2%
 12
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.2%
 13
University of Michigan MI
0.2%
 11
Stanford University CA
0.1%
 10