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 |
|---|---|---|
| Barnard College NY | 8 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 21 | |
| Columbia University NY | 54 | |
| Harvard University MA | 79 | |
| Williams College MA | 6 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 11 | |
| Temple University PA | 6 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 20 | |
| United States Naval Academy MD | 9 | |
| Amherst College MA | 5 | |
| New York University NY | 23 | |
| Yale University CT | 33 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 9 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 26 | |
| Antioch College OH | 5 | |
| Cornell University NY | 17 | |
| Brigham Young University UT | 6 | |
| Brown University RI | 13 | |
| Wesleyan University CT | 5 | |
| California Institute of Technology CA | 6 | |
| University of Arizona AZ | 5 | |
| University of Rochester NY | 5 | |
| Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY | 5 | |
| Stanford University CA | 20 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 9 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 35 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 18 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 14 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 13 |