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	45.4×
Columbia University NY	1390	20.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA	1361	14.9×
Yale University CT	1255	38.2×
Princeton University NJ	1151	61.8×
University of Chicago IL	1142	29.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	1035	38.8×
Stanford University CA	1009	25.5×
Cornell University NY	828	18.2×
University of Michigan MI	745	6.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	597	4.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA	479	7.0×
New York University NY	456	4.2×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	446	4.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD	431	8.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	358	3.1×
California Institute of Technology CA	341	61.7×
Brown University RI	338	15.7×
University of Minnesota MN	327	1.9×
University of Washington WA	287	2.7×
Northwestern University IL	263	5.1×
Ohio State University OH	240	1.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	220	1.7×
Duke University NC	212	7.0×
University of Iowa IA	196	2.4×
CUNY City College NY	177	3.8×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC	169	2.5×
University of Virginia VA	163	2.9×
Brandeis University MA	162	14.3×
University of Rochester NY	161	6.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA	159	7.6×
Swarthmore College PA	150	38.0×
Oberlin College OH	150	17.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	149	2.2×
Dartmouth College NH	143	9.1×
University of Southern California CA	143	1.8×
University of California-San Diego CA	142	3.0×
Purdue University IN	142	1.4×
Pennsylvania State University PA	136	1.3×
University of Pittsburgh PA	135	1.7×

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	30.3%	341
The Rockefeller University NY	26.7%	37
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	25.8%	1035
University of Chicago IL	25.6%	1142
Swarthmore College PA	24.3%	150
Princeton University NJ	24.1%	1151
University of Rochester NY	23.5%	161
Brandeis University MA	22.6%	162
Bryn Mawr College PA	21.9%	122
University of California-San Diego CA	21.1%	142
Jewish Theological Seminary of America NY	20.9%	34
Goshen College IN	20.6%	12
University of California-Berkeley CA	20.6%	1361
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY	20.3%	49
Harvard University MA	20.3%	2992
Graduate Theological Union CA	20.0%	10
Johns Hopkins University MD	19.5%	431
Yale University CT	19.2%	1255
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY	19.1%	26
Stony Brook University NY	18.4%	82
Albert Einstein College of Medicine NY	18.4%	16
Haverford College PA	18.1%	53
Reed College OR	18.1%	67
Cornell University NY	18.0%	828
CUNY City College NY	17.4%	177
University of California-San Francisco CA	17.3%	36
Calvin University MI	17.3%	23
University of Pennsylvania PA	17.3%	479
Carnegie Mellon University PA	17.2%	159
Concordia Seminary MO	17.1%	12
Kalamazoo College MI	16.9%	16
Yeshiva University NY	16.7%	46
Oberlin College OH	16.6%	150
Columbia University NY	16.5%	1390
Stanford University CA	16.5%	1009
Houghton University NY	16.4%	9
Carleton College MN	16.3%	42
Columbia Theological Seminary GA	16.1%	5
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center TX	15.9%	6
Hollins University VA	15.8%	9

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity