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 | |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY | 5 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 11 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 7 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 45 | |
| Amherst College MA | 6 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 49 | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 15 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 37 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 14 | |
| Swarthmore College PA | 5 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 44 | |
| University of Maryland-College Park MD | 5 | |
| University of Rochester NY | 6 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 20 | |
| Tufts University MA | 5 | |
| Columbia University NY | 42 | |
| Purdue University IN | 5 | |
| Harvard University MA | 80 | |
| Oberlin College OH | 5 | |
| Cornell University NY | 17 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 18 | |
| New York University NY | 13 | |
| Yale University CT | 25 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 10 | |
| Stanford University CA | 15 |