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
1665
14.0×
Columbia University NY
797
6.5×
University of Michigan MI
706
2.8×
Princeton University NJ
697
10.3×
Yale University CT
682
10.6×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
591
2.4×
George Washington University DC
495
7.5×
University of Minnesota MN
440
2.6×
Dartmouth College NH
434
8.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
380
3.1×
Georgetown University DC
378
9.6×
Stanford University CA
374
7.6×
Cornell University NY
346
4.4×
University of Virginia VA
346
2.4×
University of Pennsylvania PA
335
3.7×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
330
2.0×
New York University NY
319
2.4×
Brown University RI
298
8.3×
University of Chicago IL
293
4.8×
United States Military Academy NY
290
13.7×
Louisiana State University LA
284
2.4×
University of Georgia GA
279
1.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
268
1.8×
University of Florida FL
267
2.0×
Boston University MA
266
2.6×
William & Mary VA
265
3.8×
Ohio State University OH
251
1.4×
University of Southern California CA
250
2.0×
University of Missouri MO
249
2.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
241
7.2×
Michigan State University MI
233
1.9×
Union College NY
232
2.1×
University of South Carolina SC
229
1.3×
University of Notre Dame IN
229
5.9×
University of Iowa IA
223
2.0×
Johns Hopkins University MD
223
3.5×
Northwestern University IL
221
2.9×
Williams College MA
218
13.2×
University of Washington WA
211
1.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
210
2.0×

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
George Washington University DC
20.1%
495
University of Alaska Anchorage AK
19.0%
45
University of Michigan-Dearborn MI
15.9%
19
Thomas M Cooley Law School MI
15.8%
25
American University DC
15.6%
170
United States Military Academy NY
15.2%
290
Drake University IA
14.9%
102
Morehouse College GA
14.8%
50
University of St Thomas MN
14.8%
66
New York Law School NY
14.5%
102
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice NY
14.2%
17
Rhode Island College RI
13.6%
31
University of California College of the Law-San Francisco CA
13.5%
66
The College of Idaho ID
13.3%
12
Suffolk University MA
13.3%
48
Mitchell Hamline School of Law MN
13.2%
66
University of Massachusetts-Boston MA
13.2%
37
Georgetown University DC
12.9%
378
Albany Law School NY
12.9%
139
Bob Jones University SC
12.7%
17
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh WI
12.6%
56
Metropolitan State University MN
12.6%
21
Southern New Hampshire University NH
12.6%
23
Southern University Law Center LA
12.5%
16
Excelsior University NY
12.4%
11
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University FL
12.4%
35
University of Maryland Global Campus MD
12.3%
15
College of Saint Benedict MN
12.0%
39
The Catholic University of America DC
11.9%
69
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota MN
11.9%
18
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus CO
11.8%
21
University of Alaska Fairbanks AK
11.7%
62
The University of Montana MT
11.7%
99
University of Northwestern-St Paul MN
11.6%
7
Bethel University MN
11.6%
17
University of Baltimore MD
11.4%
43
University of South Dakota SD
11.4%
87
Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus NJ
11.3%
44
Hamline University MN
11.3%
34
Rutgers University-Camden NJ
11.2%
8