Comparing main university alumni only — counts and multiples below are within that lens (switch it with the tabs at the top).
National Medal of Science
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
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 alumni | Alumni |
|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology CA | 38 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 7 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 11 | |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY | 5 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 45 | |
| Tufts University MA | 5 | |
| Amherst College MA | 6 | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 15 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 49 | |
| University of Rochester NY | 6 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 37 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 14 | |
| Swarthmore College PA | 5 | |
| University of Maryland-College Park MD | 5 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 44 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 20 | |
| Columbia University NY | 42 | |
| Oberlin College OH | 5 | |
| Harvard University MA | 80 | |
| Purdue University IN | 5 | |
| New York University NY | 13 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 18 | |
| Cornell University NY | 17 | |
| Yale University CT | 25 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 10 | |
| Stanford University CA | 15 |