Perhaps the University of Minnesota's greatest contribution is its graduates. The University has about 370,000 living alumni, and each campus has an alumni organization.

Many alumni, including five Nobel Prize winners, have gone on to make significant contributions to society. Notable Minnesota alumni include politicians, authors, actors, judges, and athletes. University alumni also have played a major role in building Minnesota's economic health and vitality. University alumni have founded 1,500 technology companies in the state that employ 100,000 Minnesotans and add $30 billion to the state's annual economy.

The University of Minnesota Alumni Association, representing the Twin Cities campus, has about 40,000 members, 57 chapters or contact areas nationwide and 10 in foreign countries, as well as 17 collegiate societies.

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