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	42.3×
Columbia University NY	1390	17.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA	1361	15.8×
Yale University CT	1255	38.5×
Princeton University NJ	1151	66.0×
University of Chicago IL	1142	26.2×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	1035	42.3×
Stanford University CA	1009	28.4×
Cornell University NY	828	16.2×
University of Michigan MI	745	6.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	597	4.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA	479	7.2×
New York University NY	456	4.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	446	4.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD	431	6.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	358	3.0×
California Institute of Technology CA	341	61.8×
Brown University RI	338	16.9×
University of Minnesota MN	327	2.0×
University of Washington WA	287	2.9×
Northwestern University IL	263	4.9×
Ohio State University OH	240	1.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	220	1.9×
Duke University NC	212	7.6×
University of Iowa IA	196	2.4×
CUNY City College NY	177	3.0×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC	169	2.7×
University of Virginia VA	163	3.2×
Brandeis University MA	162	14.2×
University of Rochester NY	161	6.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA	159	7.9×
Swarthmore College PA	150	38.2×
Oberlin College OH	150	17.8×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	149	2.4×
Dartmouth College NH	143	8.9×
University of Southern California CA	143	2.0×
University of California-San Diego CA	142	3.2×
Purdue University IN	142	1.5×
Pennsylvania State University PA	136	1.4×
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
California Institute of Technology CA	27.8%	341
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	25.0%	1035
University of Chicago IL	24.7%	1142
Princeton University NJ	23.2%	1151
Swarthmore College PA	21.8%	150
The Rockefeller University NY	21.1%	37
University of Rochester NY	21.0%	161
Bryn Mawr College PA	20.0%	122
Brandeis University MA	19.8%	162
Harvard University MA	18.9%	2992
University of California-San Diego CA	18.8%	142
University of California-Berkeley CA	18.7%	1361
Yale University CT	18.1%	1255
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY	17.8%	49
Johns Hopkins University MD	17.1%	431
Cornell University NY	16.3%	828
Jewish Theological Seminary of America NY	16.2%	34
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY	16.2%	26
Stony Brook University NY	16.1%	82
University of Pennsylvania PA	16.0%	479
Carnegie Mellon University PA	16.0%	159
Goshen College IN	15.7%	12
Oberlin College OH	15.7%	150
CUNY City College NY	15.6%	177
Carleton College MN	15.5%	42
University of California-San Francisco CA	15.4%	36
Haverford College PA	15.4%	53
Graduate Theological Union CA	15.3%	10
Reed College OR	15.2%	67
Columbia University NY	14.9%	1390
Stanford University CA	14.8%	1009
Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY	14.5%	19
Calvin University MI	14.1%	23
Albert Einstein College of Medicine NY	14.0%	16
Kalamazoo College MI	13.8%	16
Hollins University VA	13.6%	9
Washington University in St Louis MO	13.5%	113
Grinnell College IA	13.4%	30
Yeshiva University NY	13.4%	46
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	13.3%	358

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity