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
425
 126.3×
Stanford University CA
296
 64.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
250
 24.7×
Harvard University MA
207
 18.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
147
 45.7×
Princeton University NJ
111
 44.2×
Cornell University NY
110
 16.6×
University of Michigan MI
99
 6.7×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
97
 5.6×
California Institute of Technology CA
79
 76.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
74
 5.6×
Yale University CT
72
 11.0×
Columbia University NY
66
 7.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
61
 5.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
52
 4.6×
University of Washington WA
51
 5.7×
New York University NY
48
 3.1×
University of Chicago IL
46
 4.6×
Brown University RI
46
 14.5×
Purdue University IN
44
 3.6×
University of Southern California CA
41
 4.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
38
 1.9×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
36
 5.3×
Duke University NC
30
 6.7×
Ohio State University OH
28
 1.1×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
28
 2.9×
University of Utah UT
27
 1.4×
Rice University TX
26
 13.9×
University of California-San Diego CA
26
 3.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
26
 1.4×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 3.1×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
20
 9.6×
University of Rochester NY
20
 4.1×
University of Minnesota MN
20
 2.0×
Northwestern University IL
19
 3.1×
CUNY City College NY
17
 0.4×
Iowa State University IA
17
 0.8×
Stony Brook University NY
17
 2.4×
Case Western Reserve University OH
17
 2.8×
University of Florida FL
16
 0.5×

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
16.1%
 147
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
14.6%
 425
California Institute of Technology CA
6.3%
 79
University of California-Berkeley CA
5.1%
 250
Brandeis University MA
5.1%
 15
Stanford University CA
5.0%
 296
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4.8%
 20
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.8%
 97
Cornell University NY
3.8%
 110
University of Illinois Chicago IL
3.6%
 7
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
3.6%
 36
Union College NY
3.5%
 7
San Jose State University CA
3.5%
 8
Harvey Mudd College CA
3.3%
 5
University of California-San Diego CA
3.2%
 26
Washington University in St Louis MO
3.1%
 12
Purdue University IN
3.1%
 44
Princeton University NJ
2.9%
 111
University of Washington WA
2.9%
 51
Rice University TX
2.8%
 26
University of Rochester NY
2.6%
 20
Swarthmore College PA
2.6%
 14
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.5%
 17
Stony Brook University NY
2.5%
 17
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.4%
 61
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
2.3%
 9
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.3%
 10
University of New Mexico NM
2.0%
 12
University of California-Irvine CA
2.0%
 13
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.9%
 52
Harvard University MA
1.9%
 207
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.9%
 23
Brown University RI
1.9%
 46
George Mason University VA
1.9%
 6
Reed College OR
1.7%
 10
University of Michigan MI
1.6%
 99
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.6%
 10
University at Buffalo NY
1.5%
 14
University of Maryland-College Park MD
1.5%
 28
Columbia University NY
1.5%
 66