Comparing main university alumni only — counts and multiples below are within that lens (switch it with the tabs at the top).
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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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bennington College VT | 6 | |
| Bard College NY | 7 | |
| Binghamton University NY | 6 | |
| Sarah Lawrence College NY | 6 | |
| Columbia University NY | 90 | |
| University of Iowa IA | 19 | |
| Smith College MA | 8 | |
| Bryn Mawr College PA | 6 | |
| San Francisco State University CA | 6 | |
| Wesleyan University CT | 7 | |
| University of Pittsburgh PA | 10 | |
| American University DC | 5 | |
| Barnard College NY | 6 | |
| Vassar College NY | 6 | |
| University of New Mexico NM | 5 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 13 | |
| Brown University RI | 13 | |
| New York University NY | 22 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 7 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 14 | |
| Harvard University MA | 78 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA | 6 | |
| Syracuse University NY | 10 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 19 | |
| Howard University DC | 5 | |
| Yale University CT | 29 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 19 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 28 | |
| University of Utah UT | 5 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 20 | |
| Cornell University NY | 16 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 15 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 13 | |
| Stanford University CA | 17 |