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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
 47.3×
Yale University CT
78
 53.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
71
 15.7×
Princeton University NJ
57
 61.8×
Columbia University NY
56
 16.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
46
 42.1×
Cornell University NY
37
 15.7×
University of Chicago IL
35
 16.5×
Stanford University CA
33
 15.4×
University of Michigan MI
29
 5.2×
California Institute of Technology CA
28
 103.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
28
 6.4×
New York University NY
25
 5.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
23
 4.2×
University of Washington WA
16
 3.8×
Brown University RI
16
 18.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
15
 4.0×
Johns Hopkins University MD
15
 6.2×
Duke University NC
14
 9.5×
Swarthmore College PA
13
 65.3×
University of Iowa IA
13
 2.9×
Oberlin College OH
11
 34.1×
Rhode Island School of Design RI
11
 51.0×
Barnard College NY
10
 24.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
10
 1.7×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
10
 2.1×
Wesleyan University CT
9
 29.4×
CUNY City College NY
9
 3.1×
Brandeis University MA
9
 12.8×
University of Minnesota MN
9
 1.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
9
 1.6×
Dartmouth College NH
9
 13.2×
Amherst College MA
8
 31.0×
California Institute of the Arts CA
8
 50.7×
The Juilliard School NY
8
 67.1×
University of California-San Francisco CA
8
 21.2×
University of Kansas KS
8
 2.0×
Williams College MA
7
 24.1×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
7
 1.4×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
6
 3.5×

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
Rhode Island School of Design RI
8.0%
 11
University of California-San Francisco CA
6.7%
 8
Swarthmore College PA
5.9%
 13
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
5.5%
 5
Wesleyan University CT
5.2%
 9
California Institute of Technology CA
5.1%
 28
Oberlin College OH
4.9%
 11
Williams College MA
4.8%
 7
Antioch College OH
4.4%
 6
California Institute of the Arts CA
4.3%
 8
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
4.2%
 6
Barnard College NY
4.2%
 10
University of Washington WA
4.2%
 16
Amherst College MA
4.0%
 8
Princeton University NJ
4.0%
 57
University of California-Berkeley CA
3.9%
 71
Yale University CT
3.7%
 78
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.7%
 6
Brandeis University MA
3.5%
 9
Duke University NC
3.5%
 14
University of California-Los Angeles CA
3.5%
 28
Cornell University NY
3.4%
 37
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.4%
 46
Bryn Mawr College PA
3.3%
 6
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
3.3%
 5
University at Buffalo NY
3.3%
 5
Vassar College NY
3.2%
 5
Brown University RI
3.2%
 16
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
3.1%
 10
CUNY City College NY
3.1%
 9
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
3.0%
 23
Harvard University MA
3.0%
 163
University of Iowa IA
3.0%
 13
University of Kansas KS
3.0%
 8
University of Pittsburgh PA
3.0%
 6
University of Maryland-College Park MD
2.9%
 7
University of Chicago IL
2.8%
 35
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.8%
 15
The Juilliard School NY
2.6%
 8
University of Michigan MI
2.5%
 29