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
 20.5×
Columbia University NY
357
 21.7×
Yale University CT
176
 31.1×
New York University NY
149
 8.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
144
 6.2×
Stanford University CA
139
 16.8×
University of Iowa IA
126
 6.9×
University of Michigan MI
116
 4.0×
University of Chicago IL
110
 6.4×
Brown University RI
107
 36.5×
Cornell University NY
103
 10.2×
Princeton University NJ
91
 20.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
77
 4.4×
Barnard College NY
76
 38.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
73
 2.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
66
 5.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
65
 3.8×
Vassar College NY
63
 77.5×
Northwestern University IL
61
 4.7×
University of Minnesota MN
57
 1.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
56
 1.8×
Syracuse University NY
52
 3.6×
Boston University MA
51
 3.1×
University of Washington WA
51
 1.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD
51
 4.1×
Ohio State University OH
49
 1.2×
San Francisco State University CA
48
 4.1×
University of Southern California CA
47
 3.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
46
 2.2×
Brigham Young University UT
46
 4.7×
Smith College MA
44
 20.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
42
 1.4×
Oberlin College OH
42
 37.6×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
41
 62.5×
CUNY City College NY
40
 1.2×
Dartmouth College NH
39
 14.2×
University of Virginia VA
37
 4.8×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
37
 3.0×
Duke University NC
37
 3.4×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 1.2×

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
Vassar College NY
9.8%
 63
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT
7.2%
 24
Antioch College OH
7.0%
 22
Sarah Lawrence College NY
6.9%
 41
Oberlin College OH
6.7%
 42
Barnard College NY
6.3%
 76
Bennington College VT
6.2%
 22
San Francisco State University CA
5.9%
 48
Brown University RI
5.5%
 107
Emerson College MA
5.5%
 17
Washington University in St Louis MO
5.3%
 34
Columbia University NY
5.2%
 357
Smith College MA
4.7%
 44
Bryn Mawr College PA
4.6%
 25
The New School NY
4.5%
 17
Kenyon College OH
4.4%
 19
CUNY Hunter College NY
4.4%
 29
Mount Holyoke College MA
4.2%
 18
Williams College MA
4.2%
 21
Reed College OR
4.1%
 20
Colby College ME
4.0%
 16
Brandeis University MA
4.0%
 23
Middlebury College VT
3.8%
 19
New York University NY
3.8%
 149
Yale University CT
3.7%
 176
University of California-Davis CA
3.7%
 21
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
3.6%
 37
Brigham Young University UT
3.6%
 46
University of Iowa IA
3.5%
 126
Tufts University MA
3.4%
 22
Manhattan University NY
3.4%
 8
Wellesley College MA
3.3%
 30
Hamilton College NY
3.3%
 15
The University of Montana MT
3.3%
 23
Amherst College MA
3.2%
 26
Pomona College CA
3.2%
 11
Lawrence University WI
3.2%
 5
Macalester College MN
3.1%
 7
Binghamton University NY
3.1%
 25
Bowdoin College ME
3.1%
 18