College Outcomes Explorer
What do graduates of each school actually go on to do? Every four-year college in America, seen through government earnings records and the life stories of every alumnus notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Search a school to see its fingerprint.
2,593
four-year colleges
294,644
alumni with a Wikipedia article
1,872,038
recorded careers, employers, & honors
Prominent people who attended
Who produces the most members of Congress, Rhodes scholars, NFL players… Click a group to see which schools dominate it, in total and relative to their size.
Members of Congress · 7,484
NFL players · 5,175
NBA players · 4,259
Rhodes scholars · 3,731
Federal judges · 3,386
State governors · 1,714
MacArthur fellows · 958
Pulitzer winners · 947
Astronauts · 441
Nobel laureates · 285
Schools with the most prominent alumni
Counted as alumni with a Wikipedia article — a fame contest, not a quality ranking.
| School | State | Alumni w/ article |
|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | MA | 24,916 |
| Columbia University | NY | 11,780 |
| Yale University | CT | 10,904 |
| University of Michigan | MI | 7,995 |
| University of California-Berkeley | CA | 7,682 |
| Stanford University | CA | 7,304 |
| New York University | NY | 6,581 |
| Princeton University | NJ | 5,929 |
| Cornell University | NY | 5,604 |
| University of Chicago | IL | 5,434 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA | 5,227 |
| University of Pennsylvania | PA | 5,117 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | 4,966 |
| University of California-Los Angeles | CA | 4,918 |
| University of Southern California | CA | 4,237 |
| Northwestern University | IL | 3,525 |
| University of Minnesota | MN | 3,455 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | TX | 3,195 |
| United States Military Academy | NY | 2,938 |
| Georgetown University | DC | 2,905 |
| Johns Hopkins University | MD | 2,892 |
| University of Virginia | VA | 2,841 |
| Brown University | RI | 2,835 |
| Ohio State University | OH | 2,811 |
| University of Washington | WA | 2,752 |