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political scientist

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
486
 64.8×
Columbia University NY
254
 33.8×
Yale University CT
212
 51.2×
University of Chicago IL
186
 44.8×
Princeton University NJ
158
 62.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
148
 11.8×
Stanford University CA
117
 20.6×
University of Michigan MI
99
 6.7×
Cornell University NY
88
 17.6×
Georgetown University DC
77
 15.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
74
 4.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
71
 13.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
63
 16.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
51
 3.7×
New York University NY
46
 3.3×
University of Minnesota MN
41
 1.7×
Northwestern University IL
40
 6.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA
37
 4.2×
Tufts University MA
36
 11.7×
Duke University NC
36
 8.5×
University of Virginia VA
31
 4.3×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
30
 3.3×
University of Rochester NY
28
 8.2×
Brown University RI
28
 9.7×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
27
 1.5×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 47.4×
Syracuse University NY
24
 3.0×
Ohio State University OH
23
 1.1×
George Washington University DC
23
 2.8×
Oberlin College OH
23
 21.2×
University of Washington WA
22
 1.5×
American University DC
22
 4.7×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
21
 2.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
21
 1.4×
University of Pittsburgh PA
19
 1.7×
CUNY City College NY
19
 3.8×
Washington University in St Louis MO
19
 4.2×
Brandeis University MA
18
 11.6×
Amherst College MA
18
 28.8×
Boston University MA
18
 1.6×

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
Claremont Graduate University CA
8.1%
 16
Swarthmore College PA
3.7%
 25
University of Chicago IL
3.5%
 186
Tufts University MA
3.3%
 36
Carleton College MN
2.9%
 9
Georgetown University DC
2.8%
 77
Princeton University NJ
2.7%
 158
Antioch College OH
2.6%
 8
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.5%
 71
University of Rochester NY
2.5%
 28
American University DC
2.5%
 22
Brandeis University MA
2.4%
 18
Columbia University NY
2.2%
 254
Haverford College PA
2.1%
 6
Harvard University MA
2.0%
 486
Yale University CT
2.0%
 212
University of Denver CO
2.0%
 14
Oberlin College OH
2.0%
 23
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.0%
 148
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.9%
 16
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.9%
 7
DePauw University IN
1.9%
 6
Amherst College MA
1.9%
 18
CUNY City College NY
1.8%
 19
Williams College MA
1.8%
 17
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.8%
 21
Pomona College CA
1.7%
 8
University of California-San Diego CA
1.7%
 15
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.7%
 19
Wellesley College MA
1.7%
 12
Binghamton University NY
1.7%
 5
The New School NY
1.7%
 16
Emory University GA
1.7%
 11
Stanford University CA
1.7%
 117
Miami University-Oxford OH
1.6%
 12
Cornell University NY
1.6%
 88
Duke University NC
1.5%
 36
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.5%
 74
Middlebury College VT
1.5%
 7
CUNY Queens College NY
1.4%
 5