Comparing undergrad 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Williams College MA | 5 | |
| Columbia University NY | 80 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 58 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 20 | |
| Harvard University MA | 133 | |
| Yale University CT | 49 | |
| Swarthmore College PA | 7 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 48 | |
| Georgetown University DC | 23 | |
| University of Rochester NY | 7 | |
| Tufts University MA | 5 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 20 | |
| Wellesley College MA | 7 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 46 | |
| Brown University RI | 10 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 26 | |
| Barnard College NY | 5 | |
| Cornell University NY | 27 | |
| New York University NY | 10 | |
| Stanford University CA | 36 | |
| Washington University in St Louis MO | 5 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 14 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 27 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 20 | |
| University of Minnesota MN | 13 | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC | 12 | |
| University of Georgia GA | 6 |