Classmates is designed to help LinkedIn users make and renew professional connections based on their college and university affiliations.
The interactive graphs atop Classmates provide a top-level view of what your fellow alumni are up to. You can click on any of the blue bars to drill down and get a more intimate look at a particular subsection of an alumni group.
Clicking on a city, for instance, will show you a filtered breakdown of the institutions and career paths of alumni living in that location. It could come in handy if you're in search of a connection with a specific job function at a particular company in your neighborhood.
You can use Classmates to show alumni in your graduating class, or choose to expand and narrow results by changing the "Attended" dates in the upper right-hand corner. You can also search alumni profiles, glimpse shared connections and groups, check out profile summaries and invite an alumnus to connect with you on LinkedIn.
Altogether, Classmates adroitly demonstrates the power and potential of LinkedIn's massive 120 million member base.
