College Outcomes Explorer

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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
237
 48.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
147
 50.4×
Cornell University NY
94
 16.5×
Columbia University NY
92
 9.3×
Stanford University CA
86
 29.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
78
 12.0×
Yale University CT
76
 30.0×
University of Chicago IL
68
 7.9×
University of Michigan MI
63
 3.4×
Princeton University NJ
57
 53.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
57
 10.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
51
 8.0×
California Institute of Technology CA
46
 114.6×
University of Minnesota MN
41
 3.1×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
41
 3.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
35
 6.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
34
 2.4×
New York University NY
34
 2.3×
Ohio State University OH
32
 1.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
30
 2.8×
Brown University RI
26
 14.2×
Duke University NC
23
 8.1×
Purdue University IN
22
 1.2×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
21
 7.3×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.6×
University of California-San Diego CA
19
 7.0×
Northwestern University IL
19
 3.0×
University of Virginia VA
19
 4.3×
Pennsylvania State University PA
19
 0.8×
Boston University MA
17
 3.7×
University of Florida FL
17
 2.5×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
16
 3.2×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
15
 5.0×
University of Rochester NY
15
 3.4×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
13
 4.7×
University of Southern California CA
13
 1.0×
University of California-Davis CA
13
 1.5×
Amherst College MA
13
 26.3×
CUNY City College NY
13
 0.6×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
13
 1.2×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
4.2%
 46
University of California-San Diego CA
2.9%
 19
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.6%
 147
University of California-San Francisco CA
2.1%
 12
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.1%
 57
Cornell University NY
1.6%
 94
Princeton University NJ
1.6%
 57
Harvard University MA
1.5%
 237
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.4%
 13
Amherst College MA
1.4%
 13
University of Illinois Chicago IL
1.3%
 6
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.2%
 15
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.2%
 8
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.2%
 21
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.2%
 9
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.1%
 51
Vanderbilt University TN
1.1%
 8
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.1%
 78
The Catholic University of America DC
1.0%
 6
Yale University CT
1.0%
 76
Stanford University CA
1.0%
 86
Brandeis University MA
1.0%
 7
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
1.0%
 16
University of Chicago IL
0.9%
 68
University of Utah UT
0.9%
 8
University of Minnesota MN
0.8%
 41
Brown University RI
0.8%
 26
University of Iowa IA
0.8%
 10
Haverford College PA
0.8%
 5
University of Rochester NY
0.7%
 15
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.7%
 34
Boston University MA
0.7%
 17
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.7%
 35
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
0.7%
 5
University of California-Davis CA
0.7%
 13
Columbia University NY
0.6%
 92
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.6%
 41
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
0.6%
 6
Miami University-Oxford OH
0.6%
 7
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.6%
 12