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
32.0×
Columbia University NY
1386
24.9×
Yale University CT
798
28.2×
New York University NY
633
7.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA
568
7.3×
University of Chicago IL
475
14.3×
Stanford University CA
473
14.1×
Princeton University NJ
471
27.1×
University of Michigan MI
458
4.6×
Cornell University NY
413
11.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
360
4.6×
Brown University RI
326
19.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
313
2.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
287
4.8×
University of Iowa IA
279
4.5×
Northwestern University IL
232
5.7×
University of Southern California CA
228
3.3×
Boston University MA
222
3.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
216
5.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
197
2.0×
Barnard College NY
197
33.5×
University of Washington WA
190
2.1×
Vassar College NY
179
28.8×
University of Minnesota MN
171
1.2×
Syracuse University NY
170
3.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
164
2.8×
Dartmouth College NH
160
11.3×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
151
2.7×
Smith College MA
149
17.2×
University of Virginia VA
149
3.5×
Oberlin College OH
149
20.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
148
6.3×
Wesleyan University CT
147
22.0×
CUNY City College NY
143
3.6×
Amherst College MA
137
27.6×
Georgetown University DC
136
4.6×
Wellesley College MA
134
19.3×
Ohio State University OH
133
1.0×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
128
3.4×
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
36.6%
37
Barnard College NY
28.3%
197
Sarah Lawrence College NY
27.5%
100
Bennington College VT
23.3%
58
Simon's Rock at Bard College NY
23.0%
14
Hollins University VA
22.7%
16
Bard College NY
22.4%
66
Vassar College NY
22.0%
179
The New School NY
21.4%
98
Westminster Theological Seminary PA
20.3%
20
Empire State University NY
20.3%
15
Kenyon College OH
20.1%
51
Smith College MA
20.0%
149
Emerson College MA
20.0%
60
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) MA
19.5%
16
Georgia College & State University GA
19.4%
8
Reed College OR
18.7%
66
Wellesley College MA
18.3%
134
Warren Wilson College NC
18.2%
9
Bryn Mawr College PA
18.2%
106
Goshen College IN
18.1%
11
Moody Bible Institute IL
17.9%
8
Hampshire College MA
17.9%
25
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
17.7%
128
San Francisco State University CA
17.5%
116
Columbia University NY
17.5%
1386
CUNY Hunter College NY
17.4%
112
Antioch College OH
17.4%
49
Naropa University CO
17.3%
7
Wesleyan University CT
17.2%
147
Binghamton University NY
16.9%
48
Mount Holyoke College MA
16.7%
60
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary MA
16.6%
10
Bank Street College of Education NY
16.6%
9
Earlham College IN
16.3%
33
New York University NY
16.3%
633
Oberlin College OH
16.3%
149
Dallas Theological Seminary TX
16.3%
11
Jewish Theological Seminary of America NY
16.0%
26
Wheaton College IL
15.9%
41