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
1943
28.6×
Columbia University NY
1386
22.7×
Yale University CT
798
28.6×
New York University NY
633
8.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
568
7.3×
University of Chicago IL
475
12.1×
Stanford University CA
473
15.0×
Princeton University NJ
471
27.2×
University of Michigan MI
458
4.5×
Cornell University NY
413
9.8×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
360
4.9×
Brown University RI
326
23.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
313
2.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
287
5.0×
University of Iowa IA
279
4.8×
Northwestern University IL
232
5.8×
University of Southern California CA
228
3.4×
Boston University MA
222
3.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
216
4.7×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
197
2.3×
Barnard College NY
197
35.1×
University of Washington WA
190
2.2×
Vassar College NY
179
30.2×
University of Minnesota MN
171
1.2×
Syracuse University NY
170
3.7×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
164
2.7×
Dartmouth College NH
160
11.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
151
2.9×
Smith College MA
149
15.6×
University of Virginia VA
149
3.8×
Oberlin College OH
149
21.2×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
148
6.7×
Wesleyan University CT
147
24.7×
CUNY City College NY
143
3.0×
Amherst College MA
137
27.0×
Georgetown University DC
136
5.2×
Wellesley College MA
134
16.4×
Ohio State University OH
133
1.0×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
128
3.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
127
1.3×

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
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT
29.2%
37
Barnard College NY
27.5%
197
Sarah Lawrence College NY
25.6%
100
Bennington College VT
21.8%
58
Vassar College NY
21.2%
179
Bard College NY
21.0%
66
The New School NY
20.6%
98
Simon's Rock at Bard College NY
19.3%
14
Emerson College MA
19.2%
60
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
18.2%
128
Kenyon College OH
18.1%
51
Smith College MA
18.1%
149
Columbia University NY
17.6%
1386
Bryn Mawr College PA
17.3%
106
Hollins University VA
17.2%
16
Reed College OR
17.2%
66
Oberlin College OH
17.1%
149
Wesleyan University CT
16.9%
147
Westminster Theological Seminary PA
16.9%
20
New York University NY
16.6%
633
Hampshire College MA
16.5%
25
Antioch College OH
16.4%
49
San Francisco State University CA
16.2%
116
CUNY Hunter College NY
16.2%
112
Amherst College MA
15.9%
137
Wellesley College MA
15.8%
134
Brown University RI
15.7%
326
Georgia College & State University GA
15.6%
8
Binghamton University NY
15.1%
48
Mount Holyoke College MA
14.8%
60
Empire State University NY
14.8%
15
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
14.6%
46
Middlebury College VT
14.4%
67
University of Iowa IA
14.4%
279
Goshen College IN
14.4%
11
Warren Wilson College NC
14.3%
9
CUNY City College NY
14.2%
143
Colby College ME
14.1%
32
Naropa University CO
14.0%
7
Wheaton College IL
14.0%
41