College Outcomes Explorer

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scientist

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
304
 46.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
180
 54.6×
Cornell University NY
109
 25.0×
Stanford University CA
108
 21.7×
Columbia University NY
105
 16.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
103
 9.4×
University of Michigan MI
88
 6.9×
Yale University CT
85
 23.5×
University of Chicago IL
73
 20.1×
Princeton University NJ
70
 31.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
69
 15.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
61
 7.8×
California Institute of Technology CA
56
 89.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
51
 3.6×
University of Minnesota MN
48
 2.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
44
 3.7×
New York University NY
40
 3.3×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
39
 3.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
37
 2.3×
Ohio State University OH
36
 2.0×
Duke University NC
36
 9.8×
University of Washington WA
34
 2.7×
Brown University RI
33
 13.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
28
 11.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
27
 4.8×
Purdue University IN
27
 2.2×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
26
 3.1×
Northwestern University IL
25
 4.5×
University of Virginia VA
25
 4.0×
Pennsylvania State University PA
24
 1.9×
Boston University MA
24
 2.5×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
23
 4.6×
University of California-Davis CA
20
 2.6×
University of Florida FL
19
 1.5×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
18
 8.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
17
 2.0×
University of Arizona AZ
16
 1.4×
University of Pittsburgh PA
16
 1.6×
University of Southern California CA
16
 1.6×
Washington University in St Louis MO
16
 4.1×

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
University of California-San Francisco CA
5.7%
 16
California Institute of Technology CA
4.4%
 56
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
3.7%
 18
Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY
3.7%
 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.6%
 180
The Rockefeller University NY
3.3%
 5
University of California-San Diego CA
3.1%
 27
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.7%
 10
University of Colorado Boulder CO
2.5%
 26
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
2.5%
 23
Lawrence University WI
2.5%
 5
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.5%
 69
Haverford College PA
2.4%
 7
University of Akron OH
2.4%
 7
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.3%
 28
University of California-Davis CA
2.1%
 20
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.0%
 14
Cornell University NY
2.0%
 109
Purdue University IN
1.9%
 27
University of Illinois Chicago IL
1.8%
 6
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.6%
 39
Northeastern University MA
1.6%
 9
University of Idaho ID
1.6%
 6
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
1.6%
 8
Duke University NC
1.5%
 36
George Mason University VA
1.5%
 6
Stanford University CA
1.5%
 108
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.5%
 9
Oregon State University OR
1.5%
 11
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.5%
 16
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.4%
 17
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.4%
 12
University of Rochester NY
1.4%
 16
University of Minnesota MN
1.4%
 48
Stony Brook University NY
1.4%
 7
University of Chicago IL
1.4%
 73
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.4%
 103
Amherst College MA
1.4%
 13
Brandeis University MA
1.3%
 10
Ohio State University OH
1.3%
 36