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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
511
 110.4×
Stanford University CA
371
 53.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
324
 21.1×
Harvard University MA
230
 25.0×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
201
 58.4×
Cornell University NY
143
 23.4×
Princeton University NJ
137
 44.2×
University of Michigan MI
117
 6.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
115
 6.4×
California Institute of Technology CA
98
 112.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
85
 4.3×
Yale University CT
83
 16.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
83
 4.9×
Columbia University NY
79
 8.6×
University of Washington WA
71
 3.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
71
 6.5×
Brown University RI
68
 19.2×
New York University NY
61
 3.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
58
 2.6×
Purdue University IN
53
 3.1×
University of Southern California CA
50
 3.5×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
49
 6.9×
University of Chicago IL
48
 9.4×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
43
 2.4×
Rice University TX
40
 20.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
39
 3.2×
Duke University NC
36
 7.0×
Ohio State University OH
36
 1.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
34
 4.3×
University of Utah UT
33
 2.8×
University of Minnesota MN
30
 1.0×
Johns Hopkins University MD
30
 4.8×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
27
 8.6×
Northwestern University IL
26
 3.3×
University of Rochester NY
25
 6.0×
University of Virginia VA
23
 2.6×
Pennsylvania State University PA
22
 1.2×
University of California-Irvine CA
21
 2.9×
Stony Brook University NY
20
 2.5×
Dartmouth College NH
20
 8.7×

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
Carnegie Mellon University PA
18.3%
 201
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
10.5%
 511
Harvey Mudd College CA
9.6%
 7
California Institute of Technology CA
7.6%
 98
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
5.6%
 27
Stanford University CA
5.6%
 371
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
5.6%
 6
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
5.4%
 8
Clarkson University NY
5.3%
 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
5.3%
 49
Rice University TX
5.0%
 40
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
5.0%
 115
University of California-Berkeley CA
4.4%
 324
University of California-San Diego CA
4.2%
 34
Rutgers University NJ
4.1%
 6
Stony Brook University NY
4.0%
 20
University of California-Irvine CA
3.8%
 21
Purdue University IN
3.7%
 53
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
3.3%
 39
University of Rochester NY
3.3%
 25
University of Maryland-College Park MD
3.0%
 43
Reed College OR
3.0%
 11
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.9%
 8
Cornell University NY
2.8%
 143
University of Washington WA
2.8%
 71
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.8%
 14
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.7%
 17
Drexel University PA
2.7%
 9
University at Buffalo NY
2.6%
 19
University of Utah UT
2.5%
 33
Brown University RI
2.5%
 68
Princeton University NJ
2.4%
 137
Swarthmore College PA
2.4%
 16
Brandeis University MA
2.3%
 17
University of Pennsylvania PA
2.2%
 71
University of Illinois Chicago IL
2.1%
 7
The University of Texas at Austin TX
2.1%
 58
Santa Clara University CA
2.0%
 8
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.9%
 85
George Mason University VA
1.9%
 7