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	416	46.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	411	100.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA	289	20.3×
Princeton University NJ	270	104.9×
Cornell University NY	246	16.5×
California Institute of Technology CA	246	287.3×
University of Chicago IL	209	14.7×
Stanford University CA	184	40.7×
Columbia University NY	171	11.6×
Yale University CT	121	12.1×
University of Michigan MI	102	2.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	86	4.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD	81	6.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	70	2.3×
University of Rochester NY	70	7.9×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	62	2.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	58	5.7×
University of Minnesota MN	57	1.8×
New York University NY	54	4.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA	50	6.3×
CUNY City College NY	39	1.2×
Rice University TX	38	20.3×
Ohio State University OH	38	0.6×
Brown University RI	38	9.5×
Purdue University IN	37	1.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA	35	2.5×
University of Maryland-College Park MD	35	2.5×
University of Washington WA	35	3.8×
Stony Brook University NY	34	5.9×
Northwestern University IL	33	2.4×
University of Pittsburgh PA	28	1.5×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY	28	3.2×
University of California-San Diego CA	26	3.3×
University of Virginia VA	26	4.0×
Duke University NC	25	1.9×
Iowa State University IA	24	4.7×
Syracuse University NY	24	1.1×
Case Western Reserve University OH	24	2.1×
Dartmouth College NH	23	11.1×
University of Colorado Boulder CO	22	1.3×

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	13.5%	246
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA	6.8%	411
Princeton University NJ	4.0%	270
Stony Brook University NY	3.3%	34
Brandeis University MA	3.0%	18
Harvard University MA	2.8%	416
University of Rochester NY	2.8%	70
Swarthmore College PA	2.7%	20
University of California-Berkeley CA	2.4%	289
University of Chicago IL	2.3%	209
Rice University TX	2.3%	38
University of California-Santa Barbara CA	2.2%	20
Cornell University NY	2.2%	246
Johns Hopkins University MD	2.1%	81
Iowa State University IA	2.0%	24
University of California-San Diego CA	1.9%	26
Stanford University CA	1.9%	184
University of Pennsylvania PA	1.5%	50
University of California-Santa Cruz CA	1.4%	14
Wesleyan University CT	1.4%	12
The University of Texas at Austin TX	1.4%	58
Columbia University NY	1.4%	171
University of New Mexico NM	1.3%	9
Bryn Mawr College PA	1.2%	14
The Rockefeller University NY	1.2%	5
Case Western Reserve University OH	1.2%	24
University of Washington WA	1.1%	35
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY	1.1%	28
Reed College OR	1.1%	13
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	1.0%	86
Dartmouth College NH	1.0%	23
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI	1.0%	6
New York University NY	1.0%	54
CUNY City College NY	1.0%	39
Georgia Institute of Technology GA	0.9%	14
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	0.9%	70
Illinois Institute of Technology IL	0.9%	13
Washington University in St Louis MO	0.8%	18
Union College NY	0.8%	9
University of Maryland-College Park MD	0.8%	35

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity