I'm looking for a list of the the top 10 or 20 USA universities ranked by number of living alumni, with the number for each.
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The largest public universities in the USA are listed below with enrollment numbers.
1. Arizona State University 55,552
2. Ohio State University 55,014
3. University of Central Florida 53,537
4. University of Minnesota Minneapolis/Saint Paul 51,659
5. University of Texas at Austin 51,032
6. University of Florida 50,691
7. Texas A&M University 48,885
8. Michigan State University 47,100
9. University of South Florida 46,612
10. Pennsylvania State University 43,998
Largest Private Universities by Enrollment
1. New York University 44,404
2. University of Southern California 33,747
3. Brigham Young University 32,955
4. Boston University 31,766
5. Nova Southeastern University 28,378
6. Columbia University 25,459
7. DePaul University 25,072
8. Northeastern University 25,004
9. George Washington University 24,531
10. Long Island University 24,449
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I should note that my ex worked in the development offices of a few private prep-schools, editing alumni magazines, and a friend of mine did fund-raising for a major university. "Living Alumni" is difficult to pin down because anything can happen to anyone at any time, and the school's alumni office may never know about it, OR, they could be unconfirmed as breathing--my 20th high school reunion just passed and even though I gave someone I know my address on the phone and e-mailed it (I now live half-way across the country from where I grew up), I was listed as "missing," so I don't believe any institution can reasonably report know t5he accurate population of alumni with a pulse. Especially older institutions--you just never know.
That not withstanding, here's the world-wide top 20 of "Top100 Institutions by Alumni Publications in All Areas ." and a link to the full 100:in the world.
1. Harvard University (United States) 1241
2. University of Oxford (United Kingdom) 1053
3. University of Cologne (Germany) 1010
4. University of California Berkeley (United States) 974
5. University of Vienna (Austria) 824
6. University of Alberta (Canada) 754
7. Yale University (United States) 713
8. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States) 645
9. University of Chicago (United States) 612
10. Stanford University (United States) 610
11. The University of Michigan (United States) 575
12. University of Oregon (United States) 479
13. The Ohio State University Columbus (United States) 446
14. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn (Germany) 431
15. University of Wisconsin Madison (United States) 425
16. Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) 424
17. University of Waterloo (Canada) 408
18. Columbia University (United States) 408
19. University of Michigan Ann Arbor (United States) 378
20. University of Minnesota Twin Cities (United States) 377
Pick off # 2, 3, 5, 6 and 14, 16 and 17 and I'm one of your living alumni. Here's the rest to bring you to 20 in the US:
21. Cornell University (United States)
22. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (United States) 354
23. Columbia University (United States) 340
24. University of York, UK (United Kingdom) 337
25. University of Maryland College Park (United States) 336 <- I receive "TERP" Magazine.
26. Monash University (Australia) 320
27. University of Kansas (United States) 309
28. Florida State University (United States) 292
29. Kent State University (United States) 290
30. University of Texas at Arlington (United States) 289
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A few points:
1. This is a list of how many journal/scholarly articles alumni have had published, it has nothing to do with magazines.
2. So this has nothing to do with the size of the undergraduate population, only the number of grad students and what % of them go on to have a career in academia.
3. The list doesn't seem very accurate, I feel like there are much more than 30 universities whose alumni have been published more than 300 times total.
4. This is is most important point I will make, this list obviously has nothing to do with the number of students who have graduated from these institutions. For example Harvard is at the top, despite the fact that it has very few students compared to an Arizona State or Ohio State.
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The largest private universities have formed a non-profit association of alumni directors. Their guidelines for membership in the group include having at least 50,000-150,000 living alumni.
Given that those guidelines also contain a requirement for 5,000-15,000 current full-time students, we can extrapolate that they expect there to be approximately 3 living alumni for every full-time current student. Since that seems awfully low, I'm guessing that they are actually only counting CONTRIBUTING alumni! But still, an interesting bit of data for you.
One thing that may be REALLY helpful to you is that they list the names/phones/e-mails for alumni association representatives! http://www.pcuad.org/index.cfm/members/
Of course, the large, public institutions have at least one group for alumni association directors. Unfortunately, they seem to be much more private - they set up their website to require membership to access just about everything (except that they have their annual summer meeting coming up in Lake Geneva). They undoubtedly have access to numbers, but I think it will be difficult for you to unlock it without spending more than a few Mahalo dollars: http://www.memberconnections.com/olc/pub/CAAE/homepage.cgi
Here is a list of their member institutions - quite the go-to group: http://www.memberconnections.com/olc/pub/CAAE/filemanager/meminstitutions.html You can see from that page that they also list some of their regular corporate sponsors; maybe you can sidle up to one of the technology groups and extract it!
There is also the possibility of paying some US$ to get a report from a private research group. This page might give you some ideas: https://www.casecurrents.org/Browse_by_Professional_Interest/Alumni_Relations.html
The U2 song "Still Haven't Found..." comes to mind. But, I hope that we're helping get you towards the top of the highest mountain... where you find what you need. (Oh, crud, I didn't intend to mix some Stones in there, though I guess that fits, too!)
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Good idea, Tom, and thanks! (
Caution: Ohio and Michigan are in the bottom half - of states - as far as life expectancy; maybe you'll want to adjust for that! http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2006/db20060913_099763.htm
BTW, I was glad to see that your 8X helped validate my supposition that the 3X is probably just active alumni. (However, that might lead to the conclusion that 3/8 of living alumni are active in their alumni association - that sounds high to me.)
This list seems a good start but it doesn't take into account whether the universities were so large over the course of an average human lifespan or so. I think you should only calculate U's which were large about 70 years ago. That would take out the Florida schools and probably some of the Western ones.
Like I said, "it's safe to say" and it's only a benchmark. To get exact numbers would be impossible, as not all universities have an exact count on their alumni, and they can't keep track who is alive and who is an active alumni. This is a good assessment, as even those transfer out, those are also transferring into the university.
While I agree that the larger the school, the larger pool of possible alumni, my experience working with student populations and the alumni-relations work of my family and friends tells me that those numbers can only indicate the pool, not thre number of living alumni.
The 2009 enrollment numbers from Wikipedia are not necessarily indicative of the number of living alumni. Universities change sizes. Some students transfer out, some transfer out, drop out, etc. Call the ones with diplomas from those schools, especially the private ones, in 5 years--or 50 years-and check on them to get a count.
Yeah, and this would be very hard to calculate those. Even advanced statisticians would have a challenge answering this one.