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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
179
 40.0×
California Institute of Technology CA
102
 437.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA
96
 17.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
92
 68.4×
Princeton University NJ
79
 89.5×
University of Chicago IL
64
 23.3×
University of Michigan MI
55
 6.1×
Cornell University NY
50
 19.3×
Yale University CT
45
 20.7×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 10.0×
Columbia University NY
29
 6.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 4.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
25
 5.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 6.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
23
 5.1×
Brown University RI
21
 17.5×
Stanford University CA
17
 7.9×
University of Virginia VA
16
 3.0×
University of Minnesota MN
16
 1.5×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
16
 15.1×
University of Washington WA
16
 4.2×
Rice University TX
14
 22.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
13
 2.7×
Oberlin College OH
13
 24.5×
University of Rochester NY
12
 7.4×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
12
 3.3×
Ohio State University OH
11
 1.6×
Swarthmore College PA
11
 28.4×
Dartmouth College NH
11
 6.9×
Amherst College MA
11
 18.0×
University of Cincinnati OH
11
 1.4×
Indiana University IN
10
 2.3×
Vassar College NY
10
 10.5×
Boston University MA
10
 2.3×
Northwestern University IL
10
 3.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
9
 4.0×
University of California-San Diego CA
9
 3.7×
Stony Brook University NY
8
 4.7×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
8
 2.1×
Syracuse University NY
7
 1.4×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
10.4%
 102
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.7%
 16
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.4%
 7
University of Arizona AZ
2.3%
 36
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.1%
 92
Stony Brook University NY
1.8%
 8
University of Hawaii at Manoa HI
1.8%
 7
Princeton University NJ
1.7%
 79
Rice University TX
1.5%
 14
Carleton College MN
1.4%
 7
Pomona College CA
1.2%
 7
University of California-San Diego CA
1.1%
 9
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.0%
 96
University of Chicago IL
1.0%
 64
Oberlin College OH
1.0%
 13
Cornell University NY
1.0%
 50
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.9%
 7
University of Rochester NY
0.9%
 12
The University of Texas at Austin TX
0.9%
 25
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.9%
 12
Swarthmore College PA
0.9%
 11
University of Washington WA
0.8%
 16
Indiana University IN
0.7%
 10
Brown University RI
0.7%
 21
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.7%
 23
Harvard University MA
0.6%
 179
Amherst College MA
0.6%
 11
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.6%
 13
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.6%
 27
Wesleyan University CT
0.6%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.6%
 7
Wellesley College MA
0.5%
 6
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
0.5%
 5
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.5%
 8
University of Cincinnati OH
0.5%
 11
Mount Holyoke College MA
0.5%
 5
Smith College MA
0.5%
 6
University of Michigan MI
0.5%
 55
Vassar College NY
0.5%
 10
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.4%
 7