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Where America's astronauts went to school — counting study at any level, so someone with a bachelor's from one school and a law degree from another counts at both. Where a size-adjusted view is shown, it divides by the school's typical size over recent decades, so small schools that punch above their weight can actually show it.

Most people in this group

SchoolPeople% of group
United States Naval Academy MD
59
 13.4%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
50
 11.3%
United States Air Force Academy CO
44
 10.0%
Naval Postgraduate School CA
40
 9.1%
Stanford University CA
27
 6.1%
Purdue University IN
25
 5.7%
Harvard University MA
24
 5.4%
United States Military Academy NY
21
 4.8%
University of Southern California CA
15
 3.4%
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
15
 3.4%
California Institute of Technology CA
13
 2.9%
University of Washington WA
13
 2.9%
Rice University TX
12
 2.7%
University of California-Berkeley CA
11
 2.5%
George Washington University DC
11
 2.5%
University of Michigan MI
11
 2.5%
The University of Texas at Austin TX
10
 2.3%
University of Colorado Boulder CO
9
 2.0%
Columbia University NY
9
 2.0%
University of Houston TX
9
 2.0%
University of Houston-Clear Lake TX
9
 2.0%
University of California-Los Angeles CA
9
 2.0%
University of Arizona AZ
9
 2.0%
University of Virginia VA
8
 1.8%
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide FL
8
 1.8%
University of Tennessee TN
7
 1.6%
Cornell University NY
7
 1.6%
University of Florida FL
7
 1.6%
University of Oklahoma OK
7
 1.6%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
6
 1.4%
Auburn University AL
6
 1.4%
Ohio State University OH
5
 1.1%
University of Minnesota MN
5
 1.1%
Florida Institute of Technology FL
5
 1.1%
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO
5
 1.1%
Pennsylvania State University PA
5
 1.1%
New York University NY
5
 1.1%
Johns Hopkins University MD
5
 1.1%
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
5
 1.1%
University of West Florida FL
5
 1.1%
Princeton University NJ
5
 1.1%
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo CA
4
 0.9%
Drexel University PA
4
 0.9%
Texas A&M University TX
4
 0.9%
University of Kansas KS
4
 0.9%
University of California-San Diego CA
4
 0.9%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
4
 0.9%
Texas Tech University TX
4
 0.9%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4
 0.9%
United States Coast Guard Academy CT
3
 0.7%
University of New Hampshire NH
3
 0.7%
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
3
 0.7%
University of Pennsylvania PA
3
 0.7%
Florida State University FL
3
 0.7%
University of Rochester NY
3
 0.7%
Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY
3
 0.7%
Amherst College MA
3
 0.7%
Missouri University of Science and Technology MO
3
 0.7%
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston TX
3
 0.7%
Yale University CT
3
 0.7%

Relative to school size (min 5 people)

SchoolPer 10,000 students in a typical yearPeople
Naval Postgraduate School CA 194.1 40
United States Naval Academy MD 132.3 59
United States Air Force Academy CO 101.0 44
California Institute of Technology CA 63.7 13
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 48.1 50
United States Military Academy NY 47.9 21
Rice University TX 22.3 12
Stanford University CA 16.6 27
University of Houston-Clear Lake TX 12.3 9
Harvard University MA 10.0 24
Florida Institute of Technology FL 8.2 5
Princeton University NJ 7.0 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA 6.9 15
Purdue University IN 6.3 25
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide FL 5.9 8
University of West Florida FL 5.2 5
George Washington University DC 4.8 11
University of Southern California CA 4.3 15
Cornell University NY 4.1 7
Columbia University NY 3.8 9
University of Virginia VA 3.7 8
University of Washington WA 3.1 13
University of California-Berkeley CA 3.1 11
University of Colorado Boulder CO 3.0 9
University of Oklahoma OK 2.8 7
Johns Hopkins University MD 2.7 5
University of Michigan MI 2.7 11
Auburn University AL 2.5 6
University of Houston TX 2.4 9
University of Tennessee TN 2.4 7
University of Arizona AZ 2.3 9
University of California-Los Angeles CA 2.3 9
The University of Texas at Austin TX 2.0 10
Colorado State University-Fort Collins CO 1.9 5
University of Florida FL 1.6 7
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL 1.4 6
New York University NY 1.2 5
Pennsylvania State University PA 1.2 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI 1.2 5
Ohio State University OH 0.9 5