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