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
173
 38.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
143
 48.5×
Cornell University NY
90
 17.4×
University of California-Berkeley CA
78
 12.9×
Stanford University CA
78
 29.9×
Columbia University NY
71
 9.0×
University of Chicago IL
63
 7.7×
Yale University CT
63
 22.3×
Princeton University NJ
57
 57.9×
University of Michigan MI
56
 3.2×
California Institute of Technology CA
46
 123.8×
University of Minnesota MN
41
 3.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD
41
 9.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
37
 3.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
36
 6.3×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
34
 2.6×
Ohio State University OH
32
 1.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
31
 5.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
30
 3.0×
Brown University RI
26
 15.3×
New York University NY
24
 1.9×
Purdue University IN
22
 1.3×
Duke University NC
21
 8.3×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.7×
Pennsylvania State University PA
19
 0.8×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
19
 7.7×
Northwestern University IL
19
 3.3×
University of Florida FL
17
 2.7×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
16
 3.5×
University of Rochester NY
15
 3.6×
University of Virginia VA
15
 3.0×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
15
 5.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
15
 7.2×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
13
 5.1×
University of California-Davis CA
13
 1.6×
Amherst College MA
13
 28.4×
CUNY City College NY
13
 0.6×
Boston University MA
13
 3.9×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
13
 1.3×
Case Western Reserve University OH
12
 1.3×

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%
 15
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.4%
 143
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.2%
 41
University of California-San Francisco CA
2.1%
 12
Harvard University MA
1.7%
 173
Cornell University NY
1.6%
 90
Princeton University NJ
1.6%
 57
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
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.2%
 19
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.1%
 9
Vanderbilt University TN
1.1%
 7
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.1%
 78
The Catholic University of America DC
1.1%
 6
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.1%
 36
Brandeis University MA
1.0%
 7
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
1.0%
 16
Stanford University CA
1.0%
 78
University of Rochester NY
1.0%
 15
Yale University CT
0.9%
 63
University of Chicago IL
0.9%
 63
University of Minnesota MN
0.9%
 41
University of Utah UT
0.9%
 8
Brown University RI
0.8%
 26
Haverford College PA
0.8%
 5
Boston University MA
0.8%
 13
Columbia University NY
0.7%
 71
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.7%
 34
University of California-Davis CA
0.7%
 13
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
0.7%
 5
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
0.6%
 6
Miami University-Oxford OH
0.6%
 7
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.6%
 37
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.6%
 12
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
0.6%
 7
Duke University NC
0.5%
 21
Washington University in St Louis MO
0.5%
 11