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
24.3×
Columbia University NY
1386
19.8×
Yale University CT
798
28.2×
New York University NY
633
10.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
568
6.9×
University of Chicago IL
475
8.8×
Stanford University CA
473
16.0×
Princeton University NJ
471
27.0×
University of Michigan MI
458
4.6×
Cornell University NY
413
8.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
360
5.4×
Brown University RI
326
28.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
313
2.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
287
5.4×
University of Iowa IA
279
5.1×
Northwestern University IL
232
5.6×
University of Southern California CA
228
3.6×
Boston University MA
222
2.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
216
3.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
197
2.7×
Barnard College NY
197
36.1×
University of Washington WA
190
2.4×
Vassar College NY
179
39.0×
University of Minnesota MN
171
1.3×
Syracuse University NY
170
3.2×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
164
2.3×
Dartmouth College NH
160
11.8×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
151
2.6×
Smith College MA
149
14.2×
University of Virginia VA
149
3.8×
Oberlin College OH
149
23.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
148
7.9×
Wesleyan University CT
147
25.8×
CUNY City College NY
143
1.9×
Amherst College MA
137
26.3×
Georgetown University DC
136
6.7×
Wellesley College MA
134
11.5×
Ohio State University OH
133
1.1×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
128
4.0×
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
Barnard College NY
20.3%
197
Vassar College NY
17.6%
179
Sarah Lawrence College NY
17.0%
100
The New School NY
17.0%
98
Bard College NY
16.9%
66
New York University NY
16.7%
633
Emerson College MA
16.4%
60
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
16.2%
128
Columbia University NY
16.1%
1386
Oberlin College OH
15.0%
149
Brown University RI
15.0%
326
Bennington College VT
14.4%
58
Amherst College MA
12.7%
137
Bryn Mawr College PA
12.5%
106
Washington University in St Louis MO
12.5%
95
Wesleyan University CT
12.2%
147
CUNY Hunter College NY
12.2%
112
Smith College MA
11.9%
149
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT
11.6%
37
Yale University CT
11.5%
798
San Francisco State University CA
11.4%
116
Hampshire College MA
11.1%
25
Pomona College CA
10.9%
48
Antioch College OH
10.7%
49
Swarthmore College PA
10.6%
77
Harvard University MA
10.4%
1943
Simon's Rock at Bard College NY
10.3%
14
Brandeis University MA
10.3%
94
University of Chicago IL
10.2%
475
Kenyon College OH
10.2%
51
CUNY City College NY
10.0%
143
Middlebury College VT
9.9%
67
Reed College OR
9.8%
66
Macalester College MN
9.8%
16
Williams College MA
9.7%
107
Loyola University Chicago IL
9.7%
36
Emory University GA
9.6%
52
Pace University NY
9.6%
17
Binghamton University NY
9.4%
48
Loyola University New Orleans LA
9.3%
11