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astronomer

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 occupation as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Harvard University MA
193
 55.4×
California Institute of Technology CA
116
 350.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
109
 18.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
104
 59.4×
Princeton University NJ
84
 71.7×
University of Chicago IL
68
 35.3×
University of Michigan MI
61
 9.0×
Cornell University NY
52
 22.5×
Yale University CT
48
 25.0×
University of Arizona AZ
37
 6.1×
Columbia University NY
32
 9.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
31
 4.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
27
 3.2×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
25
 3.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
24
 10.2×
Brown University RI
23
 17.2×
University of Washington WA
22
 3.2×
Stanford University CA
21
 8.0×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
20
 12.2×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 1.6×
University of Virginia VA
16
 4.8×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
15
 3.3×
Rice University TX
14
 18.6×
University of Rochester NY
13
 8.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
13
 1.9×
Oberlin College OH
13
 25.8×
Boston University MA
12
 2.3×
Amherst College MA
11
 38.0×
Dartmouth College NH
11
 12.7×
Swarthmore College PA
11
 45.0×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
11
 1.6×
Ohio State University OH
11
 1.1×
University of Cincinnati OH
11
 1.8×
Vassar College NY
10
 23.5×
Indiana University IN
10
 1.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
10
 2.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
10
 3.4×
Northwestern University IL
10
 3.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
9
 2.0×
Pennsylvania State University PA
9
 1.3×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
9.0%
 116
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.9%
 20
University of Arizona AZ
2.5%
 37
Carleton College MN
2.2%
 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.1%
 104
New Mexico State University NM
1.9%
 6
Stony Brook University NY
1.8%
 9
University of Hawaii at Manoa HI
1.7%
 7
Rice University TX
1.7%
 14
Pomona College CA
1.7%
 8
Swarthmore College PA
1.6%
 11
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.6%
 6
Princeton University NJ
1.5%
 84
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.5%
 15
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.4%
 109
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.3%
 9
University of Chicago IL
1.3%
 68
Lehigh University PA
1.2%
 5
Vassar College NY
1.2%
 10
University of Rochester NY
1.2%
 13
University of California-San Diego CA
1.2%
 10
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.1%
 7
Amherst College MA
1.1%
 11
Oberlin College OH
1.1%
 13
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.1%
 5
University of Cincinnati OH
1.0%
 11
Wellesley College MA
1.0%
 7
Cornell University NY
1.0%
 52
Smith College MA
0.9%
 7
Indiana University IN
0.9%
 10
The University of Texas at Austin TX
0.9%
 27
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.9%
 24
Brown University RI
0.8%
 23
University of Washington WA
0.8%
 22
Harvard University MA
0.8%
 193
University of Michigan MI
0.8%
 61
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.8%
 11
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.8%
 9
San Francisco State University CA
0.7%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.7%
 7