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 |
|---|---|---|
| Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY | 5 | |
| Antioch College OH | 5 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 9 | |
| Barnard College NY | 8 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 9 | |
| Williams College MA | 7 | |
| University of Rochester NY | 5 | |
| Columbia University NY | 56 | |
| Amherst College MA | 6 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 20 | |
| Temple University PA | 6 | |
| New York University NY | 24 | |
| Brown University RI | 14 | |
| Harvard University MA | 81 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 36 | |
| Wesleyan University CT | 5 | |
| Yale University CT | 36 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 11 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 27 | |
| California Institute of Technology CA | 6 | |
| United States Naval Academy MD | 9 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 21 | |
| Brigham Young University UT | 6 | |
| Stanford University CA | 24 | |
| University of Maryland-College Park MD | 5 | |
| University of Arizona AZ | 5 | |
| Cornell University NY | 17 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 13 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 14 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 19 |