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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
Harvard University MA
98
 34.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
98
 78.6×
Columbia University NY
57
 9.1×
Stanford University CA
49
 36.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 8.3×
Yale University CT
45
 2.1×
Cornell University NY
38
 2.9×
University of Michigan MI
32
 4.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
27
 11.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
27
 26.4×
New York University NY
23
 1.3×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 2.8×
University of Chicago IL
21
 2.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD
20
 9.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
20
 1.2×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 1.5×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 4.2×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 1.4×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 0.3×
Princeton University NJ
15
 9.9×
University of Southern California CA
14
 3.0×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 1.5×
Brown University RI
12
 3.7×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
12
 3.6×
CUNY City College NY
12
 1.0×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 12.6×
University of Washington WA
10
 1.3×
Purdue University IN
10
 1.8×
University of Utah UT
10
 0.7×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
9
 0.9×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
9
 0.9×
Texas A&M University TX
8
 1.1×
Tulane University LA
8
 2.4×
Duke University NC
8
 13.9×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
7
 2.1×
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
7
 2.8×
Howard University DC
7
 0.9×
Oberlin College OH
7
 4.6×
Case Western Reserve University OH
7
 0.7×

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 alumniAlumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.6%
 98
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.8%
 20
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.7%
 27
Northeastern University MA
0.5%
 5
Stanford University CA
0.5%
 49
Rice University TX
0.5%
 6
Harvard University MA
0.5%
 98
University of Rochester NY
0.4%
 7
California Institute of Technology CA
0.4%
 27
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
0.4%
 7
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
0.4%
 16
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.3%
 23
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.3%
 46
Purdue University IN
0.3%
 10
Columbia University NY
0.3%
 57
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.2%
 7
Carnegie Mellon University PA
0.2%
 12
CUNY City College NY
0.2%
 12
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.2%
 5
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
0.2%
 11
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
0.2%
 9
Bowdoin College ME
0.2%
 5
Brigham Young University UT
0.2%
 7
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
0.2%
 5
University of Michigan MI
0.2%
 32
Union College NY
0.2%
 7
Tulane University LA
0.2%
 8
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.2%
 6
University of Minnesota MN
0.1%
 17
Oberlin College OH
0.1%
 7
Texas A&M University TX
0.1%
 8
Princeton University NJ
0.1%
 15
Ohio State University OH
0.1%
 13
Drexel University PA
0.1%
 5
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.1%
 7
University of Southern California CA
0.1%
 14
Cornell University NY
0.1%
 38
University of Chicago IL
0.1%
 21
University of Washington WA
0.1%
 10
United States Naval Academy MD
0.1%
 15