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
 39.8×
Columbia University NY
112
 37.0×
Yale University CT
96
 53.3×
University of Michigan MI
73
 6.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA
71
 7.0×
New York University NY
59
 10.3×
University of Chicago IL
51
 18.9×
Stanford University CA
51
 22.1×
Cornell University NY
50
 13.8×
Brown University RI
49
 32.8×
Princeton University NJ
47
 24.7×
Barnard College NY
46
 48.4×
University of Iowa IA
40
 5.0×
Vassar College NY
39
 49.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA
36
 7.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
35
 2.9×
Smith College MA
32
 30.6×
Brigham Young University UT
31
 4.9×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
30
 3.7×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
29
 5.1×
Syracuse University NY
27
 4.6×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 1.5×
University of Minnesota MN
27
 1.5×
Northwestern University IL
22
 7.2×
Ohio State University OH
22
 1.2×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
21
 59.0×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.8×
San Francisco State University CA
20
 3.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
20
 3.7×
University of Florida FL
20
 2.4×
Duke University NC
20
 10.8×
Oberlin College OH
19
 23.2×
Dartmouth College NH
19
 17.2×
CUNY City College NY
19
 3.5×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
19
 2.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
18
 1.9×
Washington University in St Louis MO
18
 8.1×
Temple University PA
17
 1.8×
University of Missouri MO
16
 1.5×
University of Southern California CA
16
 2.9×

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
Barnard College NY
11.5%
 46
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT
10.4%
 8
Vassar College NY
9.4%
 39
Smith College MA
8.6%
 32
Colby College ME
8.3%
 10
Sarah Lawrence College NY
7.6%
 21
Reed College OR
7.5%
 13
Bennington College VT
7.1%
 12
Kenyon College OH
6.1%
 9
Antioch College OH
6.0%
 12
Oberlin College OH
6.0%
 19
Mount Holyoke College MA
5.6%
 9
Binghamton University NY
5.3%
 13
Hamilton College NY
5.3%
 10
Carleton College MN
5.2%
 7
Washington University in St Louis MO
5.2%
 18
Brown University RI
5.0%
 49
CUNY Hunter College NY
4.9%
 12
Amherst College MA
4.8%
 16
San Francisco State University CA
4.7%
 20
CUNY City College NY
4.5%
 19
Hampshire College MA
4.3%
 5
Brigham Young University UT
4.3%
 31
Beloit College WI
4.2%
 6
Bryn Mawr College PA
4.0%
 14
Ithaca College NY
3.9%
 5
Yale University CT
3.9%
 96
The New School NY
3.8%
 6
Haverford College PA
3.8%
 7
Emory University GA
3.7%
 6
Swarthmore College PA
3.7%
 10
Knox College IL
3.7%
 6
Manhattan University NY
3.5%
 6
Columbia University NY
3.5%
 112
Washington and Lee University VA
3.5%
 5
Williams College MA
3.4%
 12
New York University NY
3.4%
 59
Bard College NY
3.3%
 8
Wesleyan University CT
3.3%
 16
CUNY Queens College NY
3.2%
 8