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
2025
37.8×
Columbia University NY
1445
27.0×
Yale University CT
835
28.2×
New York University NY
677
6.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA
616
6.9×
Stanford University CA
513
12.6×
Princeton University NJ
499
27.6×
University of Michigan MI
497
4.7×
University of Chicago IL
496
16.7×
Cornell University NY
444
12.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
389
3.9×
Brown University RI
367
17.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
331
2.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
306
4.8×
University of Iowa IA
291
3.9×
University of Southern California CA
253
3.0×
Northwestern University IL
245
5.3×
Boston University MA
233
2.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
232
6.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
221
1.7×
Barnard College NY
211
30.6×
University of Washington WA
209
2.0×
Vassar College NY
192
29.2×
Syracuse University NY
181
3.2×
University of Minnesota MN
180
1.1×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
172
2.7×
Dartmouth College NH
167
12.5×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
167
2.4×
University of Virginia VA
163
3.2×
Smith College MA
159
19.3×
Oberlin College OH
158
20.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
155
5.8×
Wesleyan University CT
155
18.6×
Georgetown University DC
154
4.3×
CUNY City College NY
150
4.2×
Ohio State University OH
149
1.0×
Amherst College MA
140
31.4×
Wellesley College MA
140
22.8×
Duke University NC
136
4.5×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
133
2.9×

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.