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
285
 36.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
177
 22.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
165
 46.9×
University of Chicago IL
124
 14.4×
Columbia University NY
109
 4.6×
Yale University CT
99
 20.4×
California Institute of Technology CA
97
 236.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
91
 5.9×
Cornell University NY
85
 12.7×
Princeton University NJ
77
 51.7×
Stanford University CA
67
 21.7×
University of Michigan MI
65
 4.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
65
 2.8×
New York University NY
47
 1.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
46
 5.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
43
 2.1×
Ohio State University OH
42
 0.7×
Northwestern University IL
37
 7.1×
University of Minnesota MN
35
 0.9×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
32
 4.6×
Purdue University IN
32
 2.5×
Iowa State University IA
31
 1.9×
University of Washington WA
27
 0.9×
Pennsylvania State University PA
26
 3.1×
Brown University RI
26
 5.0×
University of Kansas KS
24
 1.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 2.6×
University of Rochester NY
22
 3.1×
Michigan State University MI
21
 1.3×
Washington University in St Louis MO
20
 3.5×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
19
 2.8×
Bryn Mawr College PA
19
 7.9×
CUNY City College NY
18
 0.9×
University of Pittsburgh PA
18
 1.5×
Amherst College MA
18
 10.0×
University of Southern California CA
17
 3.7×
University of Virginia VA
17
 1.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
16
 2.8×
University of Cincinnati OH
15
 0.5×
University of California-San Diego CA
15
 2.4×

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
6.8%
 97
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.0%
 165
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
1.9%
 5
Montana State University MT
1.9%
 5
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.7%
 177
University of Utah UT
1.4%
 12
University of California-Davis CA
1.4%
 10
University of Chicago IL
1.4%
 124
Harvard University MA
1.3%
 285
Princeton University NJ
1.2%
 77
Emory University GA
1.2%
 8
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.2%
 46
Wellesley College MA
1.0%
 5
Cornell University NY
1.0%
 85
University of Delaware DE
0.9%
 14
Hope College MI
0.9%
 7
Washington University in St Louis MO
0.9%
 20
University of California-San Diego CA
0.8%
 15
North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC
0.8%
 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.8%
 91
The Rockefeller University NY
0.8%
 7
University of New Mexico NM
0.8%
 5
Williams College MA
0.8%
 9
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
0.8%
 7
Purdue University IN
0.7%
 32
Yale University CT
0.7%
 99
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.7%
 19
University of Rochester NY
0.7%
 22
Northwestern University IL
0.7%
 37
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.7%
 65
Swarthmore College PA
0.6%
 10
Stanford University CA
0.6%
 67
Carnegie Mellon University PA
0.6%
 14
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.6%
 14
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
0.5%
 9
Mount Holyoke College MA
0.5%
 8
Bryn Mawr College PA
0.5%
 19
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
0.5%
 6
Dickinson College PA
0.5%
 7
Reed College OR
0.5%
 7