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).

academic

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
398
 38.8×
Stanford University CA
255
 32.7×
Yale University CT
200
 35.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
182
 10.6×
Columbia University NY
158
 15.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
150
 29.1×
Princeton University NJ
139
 40.2×
University of Michigan MI
134
 6.7×
Cornell University NY
126
 18.5×
University of Chicago IL
120
 21.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
91
 4.8×
New York University NY
88
 4.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
86
 3.9×
Brown University RI
72
 18.2×
University of Minnesota MN
67
 2.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
64
 3.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA
58
 4.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
54
 7.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
52
 2.1×
Northwestern University IL
47
 5.4×
Ohio State University OH
47
 1.6×
University of Washington WA
44
 2.2×
Duke University NC
43
 7.4×
California Institute of Technology CA
42
 43.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
41
 2.7×
University of Southern California CA
36
 2.3×
University of Iowa IA
36
 2.5×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
35
 9.1×
Pennsylvania State University PA
35
 1.7×
Boston University MA
35
 2.3×
Michigan State University MI
30
 1.2×
Purdue University IN
29
 1.5×
Florida State University FL
28
 2.0×
Georgetown University DC
26
 3.8×
Syracuse University NY
26
 2.4×
Swarthmore College PA
26
 36.1×
Brandeis University MA
26
 12.3×
Dartmouth College NH
24
 9.4×
University of Virginia VA
24
 2.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
24
 1.9×

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
Michigan Technological University MI
5.1%
 5
University of California-San Francisco CA
4.1%
 11
Abilene Christian University TX
4.0%
 7
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
4.0%
 6
Swarthmore College PA
3.9%
 26
Stanford University CA
3.8%
 255
Morehouse College GA
3.8%
 9
Mount Holyoke College MA
3.5%
 13
Brandeis University MA
3.4%
 26
The Rockefeller University NY
3.4%
 5
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.4%
 17
California Institute of Technology CA
3.3%
 42
Emory University GA
3.3%
 19
Carnegie Mellon University PA
3.2%
 35
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.1%
 150
Haverford College PA
3.1%
 9
University of Rochester NY
3.0%
 23
Binghamton University NY
3.0%
 9
Southern University and A & M College LA
3.0%
 6
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.9%
 18
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
2.9%
 14
Clark University MA
2.9%
 8
University of Pittsburgh PA
2.9%
 41
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.8%
 64
Yale University CT
2.7%
 200
Reed College OR
2.7%
 10
Tufts University MA
2.7%
 23
Brown University RI
2.6%
 72
University of California-San Diego CA
2.6%
 21
Pomona College CA
2.6%
 12
Carleton College MN
2.6%
 8
Cornell University NY
2.5%
 126
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.5%
 182
University of Chicago IL
2.5%
 120
University at Albany NY
2.5%
 9
University at Buffalo NY
2.5%
 18
Harvard University MA
2.4%
 398
Princeton University NJ
2.4%
 139
Princeton Theological Seminary NJ
2.4%
 7
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.4%
 54