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
 33.3×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
143
 63.2×
Cornell University NY
90
 24.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
78
 10.8×
Stanford University CA
78
 24.5×
Columbia University NY
71
 12.5×
University of Chicago IL
63
 19.7×
Yale University CT
63
 23.8×
Princeton University NJ
57
 39.9×
University of Michigan MI
56
 5.8×
California Institute of Technology CA
46
 109.4×
University of Minnesota MN
41
 2.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
41
 11.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
37
 3.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
36
 6.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
34
 3.8×
Ohio State University OH
32
 2.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
31
 4.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
30
 3.0×
Brown University RI
26
 16.1×
New York University NY
24
 2.8×
Purdue University IN
22
 2.4×
Duke University NC
21
 8.7×
University of Washington WA
20
 2.4×
Pennsylvania State University PA
19
 1.8×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
19
 10.8×
Northwestern University IL
19
 4.4×
University of Florida FL
17
 1.9×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
16
 4.3×
University of Rochester NY
15
 7.1×
University of Virginia VA
15
 3.4×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
15
 9.2×
University of California-San Diego CA
15
 4.3×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
13
 2.3×
University of California-Davis CA
13
 2.5×
Amherst College MA
13
 31.3×
CUNY City College NY
13
 3.0×
Boston University MA
13
 2.2×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
13
 2.1×
Case Western Reserve University OH
12
 4.9×

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
5.2%
 12
California Institute of Technology CA
4.5%
 46
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
3.7%
 15
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.6%
 143
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
2.5%
 7
University of California-San Diego CA
2.5%
 15
University of Rochester NY
2.3%
 15
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.2%
 41
University of Illinois Chicago IL
2.1%
 6
Case Western Reserve University OH
2.1%
 12
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.1%
 19
Cornell University NY
2.0%
 90
Haverford College PA
2.0%
 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
1.9%
 16
Amherst College MA
1.7%
 13
University of California-Davis CA
1.7%
 13
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.7%
 9
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.6%
 34
Purdue University IN
1.5%
 22
University of Chicago IL
1.4%
 63
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.4%
 13
George Mason University VA
1.4%
 5
University of Minnesota MN
1.4%
 41
Stanford University CA
1.4%
 78
University of Akron OH
1.3%
 5
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
1.3%
 6
Princeton University NJ
1.3%
 57
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.3%
 11
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.3%
 36
University of Idaho ID
1.3%
 6
Harvard University MA
1.3%
 173
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.3%
 78
Brown University RI
1.2%
 26
CUNY City College NY
1.2%
 13
Miami University-Oxford OH
1.2%
 7
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
1.2%
 5
Northeastern University MA
1.2%
 6
Brandeis University MA
1.2%
 7
Oregon State University OR
1.2%
 10
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.1%
 30