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
400
 23.0×
Columbia University NY
357
 23.5×
Yale University CT
176
 27.2×
New York University NY
149
 6.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
144
 6.1×
Stanford University CA
139
 15.2×
University of Iowa IA
126
 7.1×
University of Michigan MI
116
 4.5×
University of Chicago IL
110
 9.4×
Brown University RI
107
 29.0×
Cornell University NY
103
 11.2×
Princeton University NJ
91
 19.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
77
 3.5×
Barnard College NY
76
 44.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
73
 2.8×
University of Pennsylvania PA
66
 4.2×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
65
 4.2×
Vassar College NY
63
 50.2×
Northwestern University IL
61
 5.4×
University of Minnesota MN
57
 1.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
56
 1.6×
Syracuse University NY
52
 4.1×
Boston University MA
51
 2.8×
University of Washington WA
51
 1.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
51
 4.8×
Ohio State University OH
49
 1.2×
San Francisco State University CA
48
 3.3×
University of Southern California CA
47
 2.5×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
46
 2.9×
Brigham Young University UT
46
 3.3×
Smith College MA
44
 20.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
42
 1.6×
Oberlin College OH
42
 30.4×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
41
 60.4×
CUNY City College NY
40
 2.8×
Dartmouth College NH
39
 12.5×
University of Virginia VA
37
 3.6×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
37
 3.4×
Duke University NC
37
 4.5×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 1.6×

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
19.4%
 24
Sarah Lawrence College NY
10.6%
 41
Vassar College NY
10.3%
 63
Barnard College NY
10.2%
 76
Bennington College VT
9.9%
 22
Antioch College OH
9.3%
 22
Kenyon College OH
8.3%
 19
Colby College ME
7.7%
 16
Oberlin College OH
7.2%
 42
San Francisco State University CA
7.0%
 48
Mount Holyoke College MA
7.0%
 18
Binghamton University NY
7.0%
 25
Smith College MA
6.9%
 44
Warren Wilson College NC
6.7%
 5
Reed College OR
6.3%
 20
Emerson College MA
6.3%
 17
University of Iowa IA
6.2%
 126
Hamilton College NY
6.2%
 15
Brown University RI
5.8%
 107
The University of Montana MT
5.4%
 23
Columbia University NY
5.4%
 357
Connecticut College CT
5.3%
 8
Bowdoin College ME
5.2%
 18
Middlebury College VT
5.2%
 19
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
5.2%
 37
Hollins University VA
5.1%
 5
Washington University in St Louis MO
5.1%
 34
CUNY Hunter College NY
5.1%
 29
Macalester College MN
5.1%
 7
Bryn Mawr College PA
5.0%
 25
Wellesley College MA
4.9%
 30
The New School NY
4.7%
 17
Northeastern University Oakland CA
4.5%
 8
Amherst College MA
4.5%
 26
Goucher College MD
4.4%
 7
University of California-Irvine CA
4.3%
 27
Coe College IA
4.3%
 5
Western Washington University WA
4.3%
 5
Ithaca College NY
4.2%
 8
Haverford College PA
4.2%
 12