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
143
 20.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
105
 8.2×
Harvard University MA
103
 19.7×
Columbia University NY
96
 22.4×
New York University NY
95
 16.6×
California Institute of the Arts CA
76
 367.0×
Yale University CT
69
 18.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA
37
 3.9×
Stanford University CA
36
 13.2×
Northwestern University IL
33
 10.2×
Wesleyan University CT
32
 86.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 1.6×
Brown University RI
25
 25.4×
The Juilliard School NY
24
 205.0×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
23
 5.6×
Cornell University NY
23
 3.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
21
 3.2×
Princeton University NJ
21
 25.9×
Syracuse University NY
20
 2.6×
University of Chicago IL
20
 2.5×
School of Visual Arts NY
18
 36.3×
New York Film Academy CA
18
 114.3×
The New School NY
18
 13.3×
Boston University MA
18
 2.6×
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
17
 37.9×
University of Michigan MI
16
 2.4×
Florida State University FL
16
 4.8×
San Francisco State University CA
15
 1.7×
CUNY City College NY
14
 2.5×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
14
 53.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
13
 1.4×
Dartmouth College NH
13
 5.8×
University of Iowa IA
12
 1.4×
Ohio State University OH
12
 0.5×
American Film Institute Conservatory CA
10
 165.6×
University of Minnesota MN
10
 0.5×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
10
 3.0×
Hofstra University NY
10
 2.5×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
10
 7.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
10
 1.5×

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
California Institute of the Arts CA
8.7%
 76
Wesleyan University CT
4.8%
 32
American Film Institute Conservatory CA
3.6%
 10
School of Visual Arts NY
3.4%
 18
New York University NY
3.3%
 95
Bard College NY
3.3%
 7
New York Film Academy CA
3.1%
 18
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
2.9%
 17
The New School NY
2.8%
 18
University of Southern California CA
2.7%
 143
Art Center College of Design CA
2.7%
 5
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.6%
 10
Sarah Lawrence College NY
2.6%
 14
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
2.4%
 7
Columbia University NY
2.3%
 96
Hampshire College MA
2.2%
 6
Columbia College Chicago IL
2.1%
 8
The Juilliard School NY
1.9%
 24
Emerson College MA
1.9%
 9
Brown University RI
1.7%
 25
American University DC
1.6%
 8
CUNY City College NY
1.5%
 14
Smith College MA
1.4%
 6
Northwestern University IL
1.4%
 33
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
1.3%
 8
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.3%
 8
CUNY Hunter College NY
1.2%
 5
Oberlin College OH
1.2%
 7
SUNY at Purchase College NY
1.2%
 7
Florida State University FL
1.1%
 16
San Francisco State University CA
1.1%
 15
CUNY Queens College NY
1.1%
 7
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.1%
 23
Harvard University MA
1.1%
 103
Vassar College NY
1.1%
 5
Yale University CT
1.0%
 69
University of California-Los Angeles CA
1.0%
 105
Pratt Institute-Main NY
1.0%
 9
Loyola Marymount University CA
0.9%
 8
University of California-Davis CA
0.9%
 6