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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
458
 60.2×
Columbia University NY
244
 32.4×
Yale University CT
196
 52.8×
University of Chicago IL
174
 39.6×
Princeton University NJ
150
 65.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
141
 12.9×
Stanford University CA
104
 21.3×
University of Michigan MI
91
 6.8×
Cornell University NY
81
 15.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
71
 4.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
69
 13.4×
Georgetown University DC
68
 16.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
54
 17.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
46
 3.8×
New York University NY
41
 3.5×
Northwestern University IL
38
 6.3×
University of Minnesota MN
37
 1.7×
Tufts University MA
33
 12.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
32
 3.8×
Duke University NC
31
 8.7×
University of Virginia VA
29
 4.4×
University of Rochester NY
27
 9.3×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
27
 3.2×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 52.7×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 1.5×
Brown University RI
24
 10.2×
Oberlin College OH
23
 21.6×
Ohio State University OH
22
 1.4×
University of Washington WA
21
 1.5×
George Washington University DC
20
 2.9×
American University DC
20
 5.5×
Washington University in St Louis MO
19
 4.6×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
19
 2.1×
CUNY City College NY
19
 3.3×
Syracuse University NY
18
 2.4×
Amherst College MA
17
 25.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
17
 1.3×
Michigan State University MI
16
 1.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
16
 1.9×
Boston University MA
16
 1.9×

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
7.2%
 14
Swarthmore College PA
4.3%
 25
University of Chicago IL
3.9%
 174
Carleton College MN
3.9%
 9
Tufts University MA
3.5%
 33
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.2%
 69
Princeton University NJ
3.2%
 150
Georgetown University DC
3.1%
 68
University of Rochester NY
3.0%
 27
Antioch College OH
2.7%
 8
Columbia University NY
2.6%
 244
American University DC
2.5%
 20
Yale University CT
2.5%
 196
Oberlin College OH
2.4%
 23
Harvard University MA
2.3%
 458
Mount Holyoke College MA
2.2%
 6
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.2%
 141
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.2%
 19
Williams College MA
2.1%
 15
Haverford College PA
2.1%
 6
Amherst College MA
2.1%
 17
Brandeis University MA
2.1%
 14
Miami University-Oxford OH
2.0%
 12
Wellesley College MA
1.9%
 12
CUNY City College NY
1.9%
 19
Emory University GA
1.9%
 10
Cornell University NY
1.8%
 81
Middlebury College VT
1.8%
 6
Pomona College CA
1.8%
 7
Binghamton University NY
1.8%
 5
University of California-San Diego CA
1.7%
 12
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.7%
 71
Loyola University Chicago IL
1.7%
 5
Stanford University CA
1.7%
 104
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.6%
 19
DePauw University IN
1.6%
 5
Barnard College NY
1.5%
 10
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.5%
 13
Duke University NC
1.5%
 31
University of Denver CO
1.5%
 10