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
338
 33.6×
Stanford University CA
202
 50.5×
Yale University CT
177
 29.3×
Columbia University NY
137
 10.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
137
 14.1×
Princeton University NJ
123
 41.1×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
116
 46.0×
University of Chicago IL
113
 10.7×
University of Michigan MI
105
 6.2×
Cornell University NY
99
 16.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
73
 2.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
70
 4.8×
New York University NY
66
 4.7×
Brown University RI
59
 19.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
47
 4.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
46
 4.2×
University of Minnesota MN
46
 2.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
44
 6.5×
Ohio State University OH
42
 1.2×
Northwestern University IL
37
 7.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
33
 2.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
33
 33.7×
Duke University NC
32
 9.2×
University of Pittsburgh PA
32
 4.1×
University of Iowa IA
30
 3.6×
University of Southern California CA
29
 3.7×
Pennsylvania State University PA
28
 1.9×
Boston University MA
27
 3.1×
University of Washington WA
26
 1.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
25
 3.9×
Brandeis University MA
25
 6.7×
Michigan State University MI
25
 2.5×
University of Virginia VA
23
 7.4×
Georgetown University DC
22
 4.5×
University of Rochester NY
20
 3.6×
Tufts University MA
19
 14.2×
Dartmouth College NH
19
 16.1×
Vanderbilt University TN
18
 2.5×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
18
 1.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
18
 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
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
4.8%
 14
Tufts University MA
4.3%
 19
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
4.0%
 116
Swarthmore College PA
3.7%
 17
Stanford University CA
2.9%
 202
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.8%
 44
Cornell University NY
2.7%
 99
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.6%
 16
Harvard University MA
2.6%
 338
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
2.3%
 10
Emory University GA
2.2%
 12
California Institute of Technology CA
2.2%
 33
Carleton College MN
2.2%
 7
University of Chicago IL
2.2%
 113
Yale University CT
2.2%
 177
Vassar College NY
2.2%
 10
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.2%
 137
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.2%
 14
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.1%
 46
Princeton University NJ
2.0%
 123
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.9%
 10
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.8%
 32
Dartmouth College NH
1.8%
 19
Brown University RI
1.8%
 59
Purdue University IN
1.8%
 18
Wellesley College MA
1.7%
 14
Morehouse College GA
1.7%
 7
University of Rochester NY
1.7%
 20
Western Michigan University MI
1.6%
 6
University of Virginia VA
1.5%
 23
Northwestern University IL
1.5%
 37
Columbia University NY
1.5%
 137
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
1.5%
 5
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.5%
 47
Brandeis University MA
1.4%
 25
Amherst College MA
1.4%
 10
University of California-San Francisco CA
1.4%
 8
New York University NY
1.3%
 66
University of Minnesota MN
1.3%
 46
Williams College MA
1.3%
 13