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
 41.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
177
 18.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
165
 52.9×
University of Chicago IL
124
 30.0×
Columbia University NY
109
 13.9×
Yale University CT
99
 24.5×
California Institute of Technology CA
97
 185.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
91
 6.9×
Cornell University NY
85
 17.4×
Princeton University NJ
77
 38.2×
Stanford University CA
67
 16.9×
University of Michigan MI
65
 4.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
65
 5.0×
New York University NY
47
 3.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
46
 7.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
43
 4.6×
Ohio State University OH
42
 2.0×
Northwestern University IL
37
 6.9×
University of Minnesota MN
35
 1.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
32
 3.2×
Purdue University IN
32
 3.0×
Iowa State University IA
31
 3.6×
University of Washington WA
27
 2.0×
Pennsylvania State University PA
26
 2.1×
Brown University RI
26
 9.7×
University of Kansas KS
24
 2.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 2.0×
University of Rochester NY
22
 7.8×
Michigan State University MI
21
 1.5×
Washington University in St Louis MO
20
 5.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
19
 2.5×
Bryn Mawr College PA
19
 27.3×
CUNY City College NY
18
 3.8×
University of Pittsburgh PA
18
 2.0×
Amherst College MA
18
 25.4×
University of Southern California CA
17
 2.1×
University of Virginia VA
17
 2.2×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
16
 2.4×
University of Cincinnati OH
15
 1.1×
University of California-San Diego CA
15
 3.1×

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
8.8%
 97
Hope College MI
6.0%
 7
The Rockefeller University NY
4.3%
 7
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
3.6%
 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.4%
 165
Tuskegee University AL
3.1%
 5
University of Delaware DE
2.9%
 14
University of Rochester NY
2.9%
 22
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.8%
 7
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.8%
 19
The College of Wooster OH
2.7%
 6
Iowa State University IA
2.7%
 31
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.5%
 177
University of Chicago IL
2.5%
 124
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.5%
 65
Purdue University IN
2.2%
 32
Earlham College IN
2.1%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.1%
 14
University of California-San Diego CA
2.1%
 15
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.1%
 20
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.0%
 91
Dickinson College PA
1.9%
 7
University of California-Riverside CA
1.9%
 6
Harvard University MA
1.8%
 285
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.8%
 8
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.8%
 11
Reed College OR
1.8%
 7
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.7%
 46
CUNY City College NY
1.7%
 18
Montana State University MT
1.7%
 5
Cornell University NY
1.7%
 85
Emory University GA
1.7%
 8
Amherst College MA
1.6%
 18
DePauw University IN
1.6%
 6
Swarthmore College PA
1.5%
 10
Rice University TX
1.5%
 13
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.5%
 19
Princeton University NJ
1.5%
 77
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.4%
 14
Carleton College MN
1.4%
 5