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
215
 35.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
176
 58.1×
Cornell University NY
104
 26.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
103
 10.2×
Stanford University CA
98
 21.4×
Columbia University NY
81
 13.4×
University of Michigan MI
78
 6.6×
Yale University CT
72
 21.6×
Princeton University NJ
70
 34.5×
University of Chicago IL
67
 20.1×
California Institute of Technology CA
56
 97.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
49
 12.0×
University of Minnesota MN
47
 2.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
47
 3.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
43
 6.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
40
 3.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
39
 3.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
37
 2.5×
Ohio State University OH
36
 2.1×
University of Washington WA
34
 2.9×
Brown University RI
32
 13.8×
Duke University NC
31
 9.1×
New York University NY
28
 2.5×
Purdue University IN
27
 2.4×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
26
 11.5×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
26
 3.3×
Northwestern University IL
25
 4.9×
Pennsylvania State University PA
24
 2.0×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
23
 5.0×
University of California-San Diego CA
23
 4.5×
University of California-Davis CA
20
 2.9×
University of Virginia VA
20
 3.4×
Boston University MA
20
 2.2×
University of Florida FL
19
 1.6×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
18
 8.8×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
17
 2.1×
University of Arizona AZ
16
 1.5×
University of California-San Francisco CA
16
 14.2×
University of Rochester NY
16
 5.8×
University of Pittsburgh PA
15
 1.7×

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
University of California-San Francisco CA
5.9%
 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%
 176
The Rockefeller University NY
3.3%
 5
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
3.3%
 9
University of California-San Diego CA
2.8%
 23
University of Colorado Boulder CO
2.7%
 26
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
2.5%
 23
Lawrence University WI
2.5%
 5
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.4%
 26
Haverford College PA
2.4%
 7
University of Akron OH
2.4%
 7
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.2%
 14
University of California-Davis CA
2.2%
 20
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.2%
 49
University of Rochester NY
2.1%
 16
Cornell University NY
2.1%
 104
Purdue University IN
1.9%
 27
University of Illinois Chicago IL
1.8%
 6
Northeastern University MA
1.8%
 9
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.7%
 39
George Mason University VA
1.6%
 6
University of Idaho ID
1.6%
 6
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
1.6%
 8
University of Minnesota MN
1.5%
 47
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.5%
 9
Stanford University CA
1.5%
 98
Oregon State University OR
1.5%
 11
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.4%
 17
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.4%
 12
Duke University NC
1.4%
 31
Stony Brook University NY
1.4%
 7
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.4%
 103
University of Chicago IL
1.4%
 67
Amherst College MA
1.4%
 13
Saint Louis University MO
1.3%
 7
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.3%
 13
University of Washington WA
1.3%
 34