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