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	2992	37.5×
Columbia University NY	1390	13.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA	1361	16.4×
Yale University CT	1255	35.7×
Princeton University NJ	1151	75.7×
University of Chicago IL	1142	20.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	1035	48.6×
Stanford University CA	1009	36.4×
Cornell University NY	828	12.4×
University of Michigan MI	745	5.6×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	597	4.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA	479	6.8×
New York University NY	456	4.4×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	446	5.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD	431	5.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	358	2.7×
California Institute of Technology CA	341	63.5×
Brown University RI	338	18.1×
University of Minnesota MN	327	2.1×
University of Washington WA	287	3.4×
Northwestern University IL	263	3.7×
Ohio State University OH	240	1.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	220	2.2×
Duke University NC	212	8.4×
University of Iowa IA	196	2.2×
CUNY City College NY	177	1.1×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC	169	2.7×
University of Virginia VA	163	4.6×
Brandeis University MA	162	9.9×
University of Rochester NY	161	4.7×
Carnegie Mellon University PA	159	8.5×
Swarthmore College PA	150	32.3×
Oberlin College OH	150	16.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	149	2.4×
Dartmouth College NH	143	8.2×
University of Southern California CA	143	2.7×
University of California-San Diego CA	142	3.2×
Purdue University IN	142	1.9×
Pennsylvania State University PA	136	1.6×
University of Pittsburgh PA	135	1.8×

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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	20.1%	1035
University of Chicago IL	19.2%	1142
California Institute of Technology CA	18.9%	341
Princeton University NJ	17.6%	1151
Harvard University MA	13.8%	2992
Yale University CT	12.6%	1255
University of California-Berkeley CA	12.0%	1361
Carleton College MN	11.5%	42
University of California-San Diego CA	11.5%	142
Carnegie Mellon University PA	11.3%	159
Swarthmore College PA	11.2%	150
Teachers College at Columbia University NY	11.0%	54
Johns Hopkins University MD	11.0%	431
University of Rochester NY	10.8%	161
Washington University in St Louis MO	10.1%	113
Cornell University NY	10.1%	828
Stanford University CA	10.1%	1009
University of Pennsylvania PA	9.9%	479
Stony Brook University NY	9.7%	82
Brandeis University MA	9.7%	162
Columbia University NY	9.6%	1390
Emory University GA	9.5%	56
Oberlin College OH	9.4%	150
Ohio Wesleyan University OH	9.3%	23
Bryn Mawr College PA	9.1%	122
Wellesley College MA	8.7%	90
Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY	8.7%	19
University of California-Santa Cruz CA	8.5%	54
Brown University RI	8.3%	338
The New School NY	8.3%	58
Haverford College PA	8.1%	53
Grinnell College IA	7.9%	30
Hollins University VA	7.9%	9
Goshen College IN	7.9%	12
CUNY Brooklyn College NY	7.8%	108
University of California-San Francisco CA	7.7%	36
The Rockefeller University NY	7.4%	37
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY	7.3%	26
Albion College MI	7.3%	9
New College of Florida FL	7.2%	6

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity