<p>I was wondering, are there any specific colleges that are known for having extremely active alumni who are loyal supporters of the college and that like to help out new graduates from the college.</p>
<p>Notre Dame, definitely, is known for its Alumni network</p>
<p>I’d assume most of the Ivies, too</p>
<p>USC absolutely. Notre Dame, Penn State, Ivies.</p>
<p>I hate them more than anything, but Penn State is the epitome of that.</p>
<p>Syracuse is known for very loyal and helpful alumni…</p>
<p>Southern California is the first that comest to mind for me. The Trojan Family as they call it</p>
<p>I second Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Duke, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, ND.</p>
<p>Southern California…The Trojan Family is not a myth.</p>
<p>LACs are usually known for having more loyalty to their college, or at least donating more to it.</p>
<p>Also the Ivies, Duke, Notre Dame…</p>
<p>More than 55 percent of alumni made a gift to Holy Cross last year. [J.D</a>. Power Challenge | College of the Holy Cross](<a href=“http://holycross.edu/alumni/report/challenge.html]J.D”>http://holycross.edu/alumni/report/challenge.html)</p>
<p>Many universities have alumni loyal networks. Most LACs have very close-knit alumni networks. there are so many schools in this bunch that I am not even going to bother listing them.</p>
<p>Schools with major athletics programs also have strong alumni networks. That includes the following schools:</p>
<p>Duke University
Georgetown University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Pennsylvania State University-University Park
Texas A&M University-College Station
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Notre Dame
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Southern California
University of Texas-Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Many private universities have strong Alumni networks, including the following schools:</p>
<p>Boston College
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
Vanderbilt University</p>
<p>I am sure I am missing several, so please feel to add to the list.</p>
<p>I’d say you forgot Brown, Yale, Penn…the only Ivy I’d give a question mark to is Columbia, but they have an alumni giving rate in line with Penn/Brown/Stanford, so…</p>
<p>Madison and Penn State are good, but Notre Dame has by far the best.</p>
<p>Princeton has very loyal alumni. Holy Cross alumni network is terrific with an alumni giving rate among the best in the country.</p>
<p>I think Notre Dame has the highest percentage of legacies among its student body (~25%, I think) of any college, making for a more incentuous, almost familial culture. Coming out of Colgate, one of the IB offers I received was directly because of an alum getting me inserted into his firm’s interview schedule. As Alex says, I’m sure this consistently goes on at countless schools. </p>
<p>Alumni giving is probably a good proxy of where it goes on more, although some of the smaller schools may be even better because two alums from Bowdoin (class size: ~425) are going to have a much more unique bond and likely to help each other out than two Penn State (class size ~ 7,000?) alums.</p>
<p>University of Florida has one of strongest alumni bases in the USA. Check out this link:</p>
<p>[List</a> of University of Florida people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Florida_people]List”>List of University of Florida alumni - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>gellino, I don’t think alumni giving rates or size of college are necessarily a good proxy. In some instances, that may be true, but in other instances, alumni networks of large universities can be very fluid, manoeuvreable and cohesive. Schools like Notre Dame, Cornell, Penn, USC, Texas-A&M, Michigan, UNC, UVa and several others have over 150,000 living alums and have very powerful and strangely loyal alumni networks. </p>
<p>Where I will agree with you is that alumni giving rates and college size have a positive correlation. I have noticed that smaller schools tend to have higher alumni giving rates. I think that’s because smaller schools can reach out to their alums with greater ease and because alums of smaller schools feel their schools need more help than the leviathans.</p>
<p>“Alumni giving is probably a good proxy of where it goes on more, although some of the smaller schools may be even better because two alums from Bowdoin (class size: ~425) are going to have a much more unique bond and likely to help each other out than two Penn State (class size ~ 7,000?) alums.” </p>
<p>I completely disagree with this part of your post. I think there are plenty of large schools with alumni that share a much stronger bond and loyalty to other alums than many of the small LAC.</p>
<p>I don’t really care, but didn’t the OP ask about “helping out new graduates?”…didn’t say a word about alumni giving, fwiw…but like I said, carry on…I don’t have an ax to grind…</p>