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
304
 41.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
207
 16.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
193
 52.2×
University of Chicago IL
127
 31.2×
California Institute of Technology CA
117
 167.3×
Columbia University NY
116
 15.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
104
 6.6×
Yale University CT
102
 25.1×
Cornell University NY
92
 18.8×
Princeton University NJ
83
 33.5×
Stanford University CA
80
 14.3×
University of Michigan MI
72
 5.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
71
 5.0×
Johns Hopkins University MD
49
 9.8×
New York University NY
49
 3.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
49
 5.6×
Ohio State University OH
48
 2.3×
Purdue University IN
45
 3.3×
Northwestern University IL
41
 6.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
40
 3.0×
University of Minnesota MN
38
 1.6×
Iowa State University IA
34
 3.5×
Brown University RI
33
 11.7×
University of Washington WA
31
 2.2×
Pennsylvania State University PA
30
 2.1×
University of Kansas KS
28
 2.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
27
 1.5×
University of Rochester NY
24
 7.2×
Michigan State University MI
23
 1.3×
Washington University in St Louis MO
23
 5.2×
University of Pittsburgh PA
22
 2.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
22
 2.3×
Bryn Mawr College PA
20
 29.7×
University of Virginia VA
20
 2.8×
University of Southern California CA
20
 1.7×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
19
 2.2×
Case Western Reserve University OH
19
 5.8×
CUNY City College NY
18
 3.7×
Amherst College MA
18
 29.4×
Duke University NC
17
 4.1×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
9.1%
 117
Hope College MI
7.1%
 7
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
5.5%
 6
Michigan Technological University MI
5.0%
 5
The Rockefeller University NY
4.6%
 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
4.0%
 193
The College of Wooster OH
3.6%
 6
University of Delaware DE
3.4%
 16
Iowa State University IA
3.4%
 34
Earlham College IN
3.3%
 5
Tuskegee University AL
3.3%
 5
Bryn Mawr College PA
3.3%
 20
Purdue University IN
3.2%
 45
University of Rochester NY
3.2%
 24
Wabash College IN
3.1%
 5
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.1%
 71
Case Western Reserve University OH
3.0%
 19
Clark Atlanta University GA
3.0%
 5
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.8%
 207
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
2.7%
 13
Dickinson College PA
2.7%
 7
University of Chicago IL
2.6%
 127
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.6%
 7
University of California-Riverside CA
2.4%
 7
Mount Holyoke College MA
2.4%
 9
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.4%
 104
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.4%
 23
University of California-San Francisco CA
2.3%
 6
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.2%
 49
University of California-San Diego CA
2.1%
 17
Lehigh University PA
2.0%
 8
University of Cincinnati OH
1.9%
 16
Reed College OR
1.9%
 7
Rice University TX
1.9%
 15
Wayne State University MI
1.9%
 12
DePauw University IN
1.9%
 6
Amherst College MA
1.9%
 18
Harvard University MA
1.9%
 304
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.9%
 22
University of Kansas KS
1.9%
 28