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

School	Alumni	vs. typical
Harvard University MA	3137	48.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA	1521	14.0×
Columbia University NY	1447	22.2×
Yale University CT	1335	37.1×
Princeton University NJ	1208	55.1×
University of Chicago IL	1179	32.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	1143	34.9×
Stanford University CA	1131	22.9×
Cornell University NY	887	20.5×
University of Michigan MI	832	6.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	652	4.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA	525	6.8×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	498	4.2×
New York University NY	488	4.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD	453	10.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	397	3.1×
Brown University RI	378	15.1×
California Institute of Technology CA	371	59.9×
University of Minnesota MN	363	1.8×
University of Washington WA	324	2.5×
Northwestern University IL	287	5.2×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	267	1.7×
Ohio State University OH	252	1.4×
Duke University NC	232	6.3×
University of Iowa IA	211	2.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA	188	7.7×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC	188	2.4×
CUNY City College NY	179	4.1×
University of Virginia VA	178	2.8×
Brandeis University MA	175	13.0×
University of Rochester NY	170	5.7×
Purdue University IN	169	1.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	166	1.9×
University of California-San Diego CA	164	3.0×
University of Southern California CA	163	1.6×
Pennsylvania State University PA	158	1.2×
Swarthmore College PA	157	34.3×
Dartmouth College NH	157	9.7×
Oberlin College OH	157	16.7×
Michigan State University MI	154	1.0×

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
California Institute of Technology CA	28.9%	371
The Rockefeller University NY	28.0%	42
Goshen College IN	24.9%	12
University of Chicago IL	24.5%	1179
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	23.6%	1143
Swarthmore College PA	23.4%	157
Brandeis University MA	23.1%	175
Graduate Theological Union CA	22.5%	10
Jewish Theological Seminary of America NY	22.5%	34
University of Rochester NY	22.4%	170
Bryn Mawr College PA	21.2%	130
Princeton University NJ	21.2%	1208
University of California-Berkeley CA	20.9%	1521
Houghton University NY	20.7%	9
University of California-San Diego CA	20.4%	164
Haverford College PA	20.2%	59
Johns Hopkins University MD	20.1%	453
Reed College OR	19.5%	72
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center TX	19.5%	7
Harvard University MA	19.2%	3137
Concordia Seminary MO	19.1%	12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine NY	19.0%	17
Yeshiva University NY	18.8%	49
Calvin University MI	18.5%	24
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY	18.5%	50
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY	18.4%	27
Upstate Medical University NY	18.4%	8
Stony Brook University NY	18.3%	91
Columbia Theological Seminary GA	18.3%	5
Yale University CT	18.2%	1335
Cornell University NY	17.6%	887
Claremont Graduate University CA	17.6%	33
Manchester University IN	17.6%	7
Kalamazoo College MI	17.5%	17
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary MA	17.4%	9
Carnegie Mellon University PA	17.3%	188
Clark University MA	17.2%	47
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	17.2%	397
Hollins University VA	17.1%	10
Stanford University CA	17.0%	1131

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity