College Outcomes Explorer

Undergrad Alumni

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Comparing undergrad 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
174
 38.9×
Columbia University NY
112
 30.6×
Yale University CT
96
 58.3×
University of Michigan MI
73
 5.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
71
 6.1×
New York University NY
59
 10.9×
University of Chicago IL
51
 9.8×
Stanford University CA
51
 21.9×
Cornell University NY
50
 11.7×
Brown University RI
49
 45.6×
Princeton University NJ
47
 31.3×
Barnard College NY
46
 40.1×
University of Iowa IA
40
 4.1×
Vassar College NY
39
 62.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
36
 7.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
35
 2.7×
Smith College MA
32
 30.0×
Brigham Young University UT
31
 7.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
30
 4.8×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
29
 5.0×
Syracuse University NY
27
 3.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 0.9×
University of Minnesota MN
27
 1.2×
Northwestern University IL
22
 8.0×
Ohio State University OH
22
 0.9×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
21
 49.2×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.2×
San Francisco State University CA
20
 3.6×
University of Pittsburgh PA
20
 4.2×
University of Florida FL
20
 2.3×
Duke University NC
20
 10.4×
Oberlin College OH
19
 22.5×
Dartmouth College NH
19
 26.0×
CUNY City College NY
19
 1.9×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
19
 1.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
18
 1.7×
Washington University in St Louis MO
18
 10.0×
Temple University PA
17
 1.3×
University of Missouri MO
16
 0.8×
University of Southern California CA
16
 2.8×

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
6.4%
 39
Barnard College NY
5.8%
 46
Smith College MA
4.5%
 32
Brown University RI
4.4%
 49
CUNY Hunter College NY
4.2%
 12
Washington University in St Louis MO
3.8%
 18
Colby College ME
3.6%
 10
Brigham Young University UT
3.6%
 31
Sarah Lawrence College NY
3.5%
 21
Reed College OR
3.5%
 13
Oberlin College OH
3.5%
 19
San Francisco State University CA
3.4%
 20
Yale University CT
3.3%
 96
Manhattan University NY
3.0%
 6
Emory University GA
3.0%
 6
Bennington College VT
3.0%
 12
The New School NY
2.8%
 6
Kenyon College OH
2.6%
 9
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT
2.6%
 8
New York University NY
2.6%
 59
Ithaca College NY
2.6%
 5
Dartmouth College NH
2.5%
 19
Columbia University NY
2.5%
 112
William & Mary VA
2.3%
 10
Hamilton College NY
2.3%
 10
Mount Holyoke College MA
2.3%
 9
Amherst College MA
2.3%
 16
Cornell University NY
2.1%
 50
Williams College MA
2.0%
 12
Harvard University MA
1.9%
 174
Wesleyan University CT
1.9%
 16
School of Visual Arts NY
1.9%
 7
Carleton College MN
1.9%
 7
CUNY City College NY
1.8%
 19
Hampshire College MA
1.8%
 5
Emerson College MA
1.8%
 7
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
1.8%
 6
Binghamton University NY
1.8%
 13
Swarthmore College PA
1.8%
 10
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.7%
 36