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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bryn Mawr College PA | 10 | |
| Binghamton University NY | 5 | |
| Brandeis University MA | 9 | |
| Pomona College CA | 5 | |
| University of Iowa IA | 19 | |
| University at Buffalo NY | 7 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 21 | |
| University of Virginia VA | 15 | |
| Oberlin College OH | 7 | |
| Wesleyan University CT | 6 | |
| Brown University RI | 16 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 6 | |
| Yale University CT | 41 | |
| Harvard University MA | 89 | |
| Columbia University NY | 46 | |
| University of Nebraska NE | 5 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA | 6 | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 11 | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC | 10 | |
| Cornell University NY | 23 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 20 | |
| New York University NY | 17 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 15 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 11 | |
| University of Missouri MO | 5 | |
| University of Kansas KS | 5 | |
| Stanford University CA | 21 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 23 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 15 |