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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

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
109
 72.6×
Harvard University MA
104
 34.9×
Columbia University NY
58
 19.4×
University of California-Berkeley CA
51
 10.3×
Stanford University CA
51
 22.5×
Yale University CT
47
 28.5×
Cornell University NY
38
 19.2×
University of Michigan MI
33
 5.7×
California Institute of Technology CA
30
 105.7×
University of Pennsylvania PA
29
 8.2×
New York University NY
24
 4.4×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
24
 4.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD
22
 10.9×
University of Chicago IL
21
 12.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
21
 3.3×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 1.8×
Princeton University NJ
16
 15.9×
University of Southern California CA
16
 3.4×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 15.7×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 22.5×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 21.7×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
14
 12.6×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.6×
Brown University RI
13
 11.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
12
 1.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 2.2×
CUNY City College NY
12
 6.0×
University of Washington WA
11
 1.9×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 78.8×
Purdue University IN
11
 2.0×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
10
 18.0×
University of Utah UT
10
 2.6×
Texas A&M University TX
9
 1.5×
Oberlin College OH
8
 18.6×
University of Rochester NY
8
 5.9×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
8
 3.5×
Duke University NC
8
 4.8×
Tulane University LA
8
 4.9×
Case Western Reserve University OH
8
 6.0×
University of Pittsburgh PA
7
 1.6×

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
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
6.5%
 10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
6.3%
 7
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
3.3%
 16
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
2.5%
 11
California Institute of Technology CA
2.3%
 30
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.2%
 109
Lehigh University PA
1.7%
 7
Drexel University PA
1.5%
 5
Union College NY
1.4%
 7
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.3%
 5
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.2%
 14
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.1%
 8
CUNY City College NY
1.1%
 12
Bowdoin College ME
1.0%
 5
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.0%
 24
University of Maine ME
1.0%
 6
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.9%
 6
Northeastern University MA
0.9%
 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.9%
 8
Tulane University LA
0.8%
 8
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.8%
 22
United States Naval Academy MD
0.8%
 15
Purdue University IN
0.8%
 11
Texas A&M University TX
0.8%
 9
University of Utah UT
0.8%
 10
Rice University TX
0.7%
 6
Stanford University CA
0.7%
 51
University of Rochester NY
0.7%
 8
Cornell University NY
0.7%
 38
Iowa State University IA
0.7%
 7
Oberlin College OH
0.7%
 8
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.7%
 51
Oregon State University OR
0.7%
 5
Howard University DC
0.6%
 7
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.6%
 29
United States Military Academy NY
0.5%
 15
Columbia University NY
0.5%
 58
University of Minnesota MN
0.5%
 17
Brigham Young University UT
0.5%
 7
Ohio State University OH
0.5%
 13