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
United States Military Academy NY
869
 450.3×
United States Naval Academy MD
179
 123.0×
Harvard University MA
91
 13.3×
Columbia University NY
55
 7.4×
George Washington University DC
52
 8.4×
Virginia Military Institute VA
50
 95.1×
Yale University CT
47
 9.6×
Naval Postgraduate School CA
38
 95.8×
Princeton University NJ
36
 12.7×
Texas A&M University TX
32
 2.2×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
32
 9.8×
Stanford University CA
31
 6.9×
University of Minnesota MN
31
 1.9×
University of Southern California CA
31
 3.9×
University of Michigan MI
30
 2.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 1.8×
Cornell University NY
26
 5.1×
Citadel Military College of South Carolina SC
22
 19.2×
University of Notre Dame IN
21
 7.5×
New York University NY
21
 1.7×
University of Chicago IL
20
 5.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
20
 1.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
19
 1.9×
Ohio State University OH
19
 1.0×
University of Virginia VA
19
 2.6×
Northwestern University IL
18
 3.9×
Georgetown University DC
17
 5.0×
University of Washington WA
16
 1.3×
University of Oklahoma OK
16
 2.6×
Dartmouth College NH
16
 7.5×
University of Nebraska at Omaha NE
16
 4.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
16
 1.6×
Norwich University VT
16
 17.0×
Central Michigan University MI
16
 3.6×
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania PA
15
 9.5×
Duke University NC
15
 5.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
15
 1.2×
University of Georgia GA
14
 1.7×
University of Missouri MO
14
 1.8×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
14
 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
United States Military Academy NY
28.7%
 869
Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania PA
14.3%
 15
Virginia Military Institute VA
13.1%
 50
Naval Postgraduate School CA
12.5%
 38
United States Naval Academy MD
9.5%
 179
Excelsior University NY
7.9%
 5
Citadel Military College of South Carolina SC
6.9%
 22
Webster University MO
6.4%
 11
University of Nebraska at Omaha NE
6.4%
 16
Norwich University VT
5.6%
 16
Troy University AL
5.0%
 12
Tuskegee University AL
4.6%
 10
Central Michigan University MI
4.2%
 16
Lincoln University PA
2.7%
 5
Bates College ME
2.6%
 7
Centre College KY
2.6%
 6
George Washington University DC
2.3%
 52
Washington & Jefferson College PA
2.1%
 7
Transylvania University KY
2.1%
 7
United States Air Force Academy CO
1.8%
 7
Marquette University WI
1.8%
 12
Eastern Michigan University MI
1.7%
 7
Texas A&M University TX
1.6%
 32
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.6%
 10
Davidson College NC
1.5%
 5
American University DC
1.4%
 11
University of Delaware DE
1.3%
 7
University of Southern Mississippi MS
1.2%
 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
1.2%
 13
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
1.2%
 6
The Catholic University of America DC
1.1%
 9
Tufts University MA
1.0%
 8
College of the Holy Cross MA
1.0%
 5
University of Oklahoma OK
1.0%
 16
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
1.0%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.9%
 6
Williams College MA
0.9%
 10
University of Notre Dame IN
0.9%
 21
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.9%
 11
William & Mary VA
0.9%
 7