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paleontologist

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

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Yale University CT
63
 64.0×
Harvard University MA
53
 29.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 20.4×
Columbia University NY
37
 20.8×
University of Chicago IL
29
 33.9×
University of Michigan MI
24
 9.6×
Cornell University NY
22
 13.3×
University of Kansas KS
21
 12.3×
Princeton University NJ
19
 25.9×
Stanford University CA
15
 9.4×
University of Pennsylvania PA
12
 6.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
11
 7.1×
Amherst College MA
10
 34.1×
George Washington University DC
10
 3.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
9
 3.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
7
 2.9×
University of Florida FL
6
 4.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
6
 2.6×
Southern Methodist University TX
6
 20.5×
University of New Mexico NM
5
 4.1×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
5
 3.9×
University of Iowa IA
5
 2.6×
University of Minnesota MN
5
 1.3×
Louisiana State University LA
5
 3.4×
Oberlin College OH
5
 19.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
5
 2.0×
New York University NY
5
 1.1×
University of Washington WA
5
 1.2×
Kansas State University KS
5
 2.2×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
4
 4.3×
Colgate University NY
4
 27.2×
California Institute of Technology CA
4
 18.2×
Occidental College CA
4
 54.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
4
 3.1×
Duke University NC
4
 8.2×
Brown University RI
4
 9.4×
University of Oklahoma OK
4
 4.2×
The University of Montana MT
4
 4.6×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
4
 2.5×
University of Arizona AZ
4
 2.0×

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 alumniAlumni
University of Kansas KS
0.9%
 21
Southern Methodist University TX
0.9%
 6
University of Chicago IL
0.6%
 29
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.5%
 46
Yale University CT
0.5%
 63
University of New Mexico NM
0.5%
 5
Amherst College MA
0.4%
 10
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.4%
 5
Oberlin College OH
0.3%
 5
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.3%
 11
University of Michigan MI
0.3%
 24
Columbia University NY
0.3%
 37
Cornell University NY
0.3%
 22
Kansas State University KS
0.3%
 5
Louisiana State University LA
0.2%
 5
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.2%
 12
George Washington University DC
0.2%
 10
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.2%
 5
Princeton University NJ
0.2%
 19
Harvard University MA
0.2%
 53
Stanford University CA
0.1%
 15