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
University of Southern California CA
145
 21.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
108
 13.6×
Harvard University MA
103
 23.8×
Columbia University NY
99
 22.9×
New York University NY
97
 12.2×
California Institute of the Arts CA
79
 377.9×
Yale University CT
72
 30.2×
Stanford University CA
37
 11.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
37
 5.1×
Wesleyan University CT
34
 50.8×
Northwestern University IL
33
 8.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 2.9×
Brown University RI
26
 15.6×
The Juilliard School NY
24
 94.7×
Princeton University NJ
24
 16.5×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
23
 14.3×
Cornell University NY
23
 8.0×
Syracuse University NY
21
 4.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
21
 2.0×
University of Chicago IL
20
 8.4×
The New School NY
19
 15.0×
Boston University MA
19
 3.0×
New York Film Academy CA
18
 43.7×
School of Visual Arts NY
18
 16.5×
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
17
 35.4×
Florida State University FL
16
 2.7×
University of Michigan MI
16
 1.9×
San Francisco State University CA
16
 2.7×
CUNY City College NY
15
 5.2×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
14
 52.1×
Dartmouth College NH
13
 12.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
13
 2.5×
Ohio State University OH
12
 1.0×
University of Iowa IA
12
 2.0×
University of Minnesota MN
11
 0.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
10
 1.2×
Pratt Institute-Main NY
10
 10.4×
American Film Institute Conservatory CA
10
 229.9×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
10
 2.6×
Hofstra University NY
10
 4.0×

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
American Film Institute Conservatory CA
17.5%
 10
California Institute of the Arts CA
14.5%
 79
New York Film Academy CA
6.5%
 18
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
5.1%
 7
School of Visual Arts NY
4.5%
 18
Columbia College Chicago IL
4.3%
 8
University of Southern California CA
4.1%
 145
Hampshire College MA
4.0%
 7
The New School NY
3.9%
 19
SUNY at Purchase College NY
3.7%
 7
Sarah Lawrence College NY
3.5%
 14
Wesleyan University CT
3.3%
 34
Hofstra University NY
2.9%
 10
Emerson College MA
2.7%
 9
Antioch College OH
2.6%
 8
Loyola Marymount University CA
2.5%
 8
Art Center College of Design CA
2.4%
 5
University of California-Los Angeles CA
2.4%
 108
Bard College NY
2.3%
 7
San Francisco State University CA
2.2%
 16
New York University NY
2.2%
 97
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.1%
 23
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
2.0%
 17
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.0%
 10
Rhode Island School of Design RI
2.0%
 9
CUNY Queens College NY
1.9%
 7
Occidental College CA
1.9%
 5
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
1.8%
 8
Pratt Institute-Main NY
1.6%
 10
California State University-Long Beach CA
1.5%
 7
The Juilliard School NY
1.5%
 24
CUNY City College NY
1.4%
 15
Pomona College CA
1.3%
 6
California State University-Northridge CA
1.3%
 5
Colgate University NY
1.2%
 6
Florida State University FL
1.2%
 16
Northwestern University IL
1.2%
 33
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.2%
 10
Columbia University NY
1.1%
 99
DePaul University IL
1.1%
 5