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MacArthur Fellows Program

Which schools produce the most (left), and where it's the biggest part of the school's identity (right). "3×" = that school's notable alumni are three times as likely to have this award as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Harvard University MA
163
 33.6×
Yale University CT
78
 55.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA
71
 16.0×
Princeton University NJ
57
 50.7×
Columbia University NY
56
 16.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
46
 49.1×
Cornell University NY
37
 13.7×
University of Chicago IL
35
 10.3×
Stanford University CA
33
 12.5×
University of Michigan MI
29
 4.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
28
 81.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
28
 6.9×
New York University NY
25
 6.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
23
 3.7×
University of Washington WA
16
 6.2×
Brown University RI
16
 18.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
15
 3.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD
15
 3.9×
Duke University NC
14
 8.3×
Swarthmore College PA
13
 55.4×
University of Iowa IA
13
 2.0×
Oberlin College OH
11
 32.8×
Rhode Island School of Design RI
11
 49.6×
Barnard College NY
10
 13.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
10
 2.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
10
 1.2×
Wesleyan University CT
9
 40.1×
CUNY City College NY
9
 1.3×
Brandeis University MA
9
 9.8×
University of Minnesota MN
9
 2.4×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
9
 1.3×
Dartmouth College NH
9
 11.2×
Amherst College MA
8
 19.5×
California Institute of the Arts CA
8
 33.7×
The Juilliard School NY
8
 90.9×
University of California-San Francisco CA
8
 22.1×
University of Kansas KS
8
 1.4×
Williams College MA
7
 17.1×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
7
 1.4×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
6
 2.4×

Biggest part of the school's identity

Shares are shrunk toward the national rate for small counts, and each school must clear the same size-scaled minimum (5–20 people) as the school pages.
School% of its noted alumniAlumni
University of Washington WA
5.3%
 16
Rhode Island School of Design RI
5.0%
 11
Wesleyan University CT
4.9%
 9
Yale University CT
4.5%
 78
Swarthmore College PA
4.4%
 13
University of California-Berkeley CA
4.3%
 71
University of California-San Francisco CA
4.1%
 8
Cornell University NY
4.1%
 37
California Institute of Technology CA
4.1%
 28
Oberlin College OH
4.0%
 11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
4.0%
 46
Princeton University NJ
3.6%
 57
University of California-Los Angeles CA
3.5%
 28
Columbia University NY
3.4%
 56
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
3.3%
 6
Brown University RI
3.1%
 16
Williams College MA
3.1%
 7
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
3.0%
 5
Amherst College MA
3.0%
 8
Brandeis University MA
3.0%
 9
Harvard University MA
2.9%
 163
California Institute of the Arts CA
2.9%
 8
Vassar College NY
2.9%
 5
University of Chicago IL
2.9%
 35
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.8%
 23
Duke University NC
2.8%
 14
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
2.7%
 6
Antioch College OH
2.7%
 6
Barnard College NY
2.7%
 10
New York University NY
2.6%
 25
The Juilliard School NY
2.6%
 8
University of Pittsburgh PA
2.6%
 6
The University of Texas at Austin TX
2.6%
 10
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.6%
 15
University at Buffalo NY
2.6%
 5
CUNY City College NY
2.5%
 9
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
2.5%
 5
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.5%
 6
University of Michigan MI
2.4%
 29
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
2.4%
 10