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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
 30.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
98
 86.2×
Columbia University NY
57
 13.0×
Stanford University CA
49
 35.4×
University of California-Berkeley CA
46
 11.8×
Yale University CT
45
 11.6×
Cornell University NY
38
 10.3×
University of Michigan MI
32
 5.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
27
 8.8×
California Institute of Technology CA
27
 76.6×
New York University NY
23
 3.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 5.0×
University of Chicago IL
21
 7.4×
Johns Hopkins University MD
20
 8.1×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
20
 2.4×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 2.1×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
16
 12.1×
United States Naval Academy MD
15
 8.0×
United States Military Academy NY
15
 2.0×
Princeton University NJ
15
 18.7×
University of Southern California CA
14
 4.3×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
12
 2.8×
Brown University RI
12
 6.9×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
12
 10.2×
CUNY City College NY
12
 3.9×
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
11
 47.8×
University of Washington WA
10
 1.8×
Purdue University IN
10
 2.5×
University of Utah UT
10
 2.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
9
 1.5×
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
9
 5.0×
Texas A&M University TX
8
 1.8×
Tulane University LA
8
 5.1×
Duke University NC
8
 9.3×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
7
 3.6×
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
7
 7.0×
Howard University DC
7
 2.8×
Oberlin College OH
7
 12.4×
Case Western Reserve University OH
7
 2.9×

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
Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA
2.1%
 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.8%
 98
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.7%
 16
Stevens Institute of Technology NJ
1.4%
 9
California Institute of Technology CA
1.2%
 27
Union College NY
1.0%
 7
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art NY
0.9%
 11
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
0.9%
 5
Rice University TX
0.8%
 6
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.8%
 23
Northeastern University MA
0.7%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.7%
 12
Carnegie Mellon University PA
0.7%
 12
Stanford University CA
0.6%
 49
Drexel University PA
0.6%
 5
Bowdoin College ME
0.6%
 5
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
0.6%
 7
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.6%
 20
Purdue University IN
0.6%
 10
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
0.6%
 6
University of Rochester NY
0.5%
 7
Tulane University LA
0.5%
 8
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.5%
 46
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.5%
 27
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.5%
 7
Lehigh University PA
0.5%
 7
Texas A&M University TX
0.4%
 8
University of Utah UT
0.4%
 10
Oberlin College OH
0.4%
 7
Cornell University NY
0.4%
 38
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.3%
 5
Harvard University MA
0.3%
 98
United States Naval Academy MD
0.3%
 15
University of Minnesota MN
0.3%
 17
Columbia University NY
0.3%
 57
Iowa State University IA
0.3%
 7
Brigham Young University UT
0.3%
 7
Howard University DC
0.3%
 7
Oregon State University OR
0.3%
 5
University of Michigan MI
0.3%
 32