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sociologist

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
282
 46.8×
University of Chicago IL
221
 66.4×
Columbia University NY
201
 33.4×
University of California-Berkeley CA
154
 15.3×
University of Michigan MI
103
 8.8×
Yale University CT
99
 29.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
94
 7.2×
Stanford University CA
77
 16.9×
Cornell University NY
68
 17.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
62
 8.7×
Princeton University NJ
59
 29.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
51
 4.6×
New York University NY
49
 4.4×
Northwestern University IL
43
 8.4×
University of Minnesota MN
40
 2.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD
38
 9.3×
Brandeis University MA
32
 25.7×
University of Washington WA
28
 2.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
28
 3.9×
Brown University RI
26
 11.2×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 1.6×
CUNY City College NY
24
 6.0×
The New School NY
24
 13.6×
Ohio State University OH
22
 1.3×
University of Pittsburgh PA
19
 2.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
18
 2.3×
Reed College OR
18
 48.2×
Syracuse University NY
17
 2.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
17
 5.6×
Michigan State University MI
17
 1.2×
University of Oregon OR
17
 3.0×
University of Southern California CA
17
 1.8×
Stony Brook University NY
16
 3.0×
Washington University in St Louis MO
16
 4.4×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
16
 5.6×
Oberlin College OH
16
 18.4×
Duke University NC
15
 4.4×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
15
 3.0×
Swarthmore College PA
15
 35.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
14
 1.2×

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
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
7.1%
 11
Reed College OR
4.8%
 18
Antioch College OH
4.2%
 13
Brandeis University MA
4.2%
 32
University of Chicago IL
4.2%
 221
Fisk University TN
3.5%
 8
Stony Brook University NY
3.2%
 16
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.1%
 16
Clark Atlanta University GA
3.0%
 5
Carleton College MN
2.9%
 9
The New School NY
2.5%
 24
University at Albany NY
2.4%
 9
Binghamton University NY
2.3%
 7
CUNY City College NY
2.3%
 24
Swarthmore College PA
2.2%
 15
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.0%
 154
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.9%
 94
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
1.9%
 15
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York NY
1.8%
 5
Columbia University NY
1.8%
 201
Teachers College at Columbia University NY
1.7%
 8
CUNY Queens College NY
1.7%
 6
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.5%
 18
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee WI
1.5%
 6
University of California-Irvine CA
1.5%
 8
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.5%
 16
Oberlin College OH
1.4%
 16
Wayne State University MI
1.4%
 9
University of Connecticut CT
1.4%
 12
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.4%
 38
Emory University GA
1.4%
 9
University of Michigan MI
1.3%
 103
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.3%
 8
California State University-Northridge CA
1.3%
 5
University of California-San Diego CA
1.3%
 11
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.3%
 19
Northwestern University IL
1.3%
 43
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.3%
 62
Cornell University NY
1.3%
 68
Loyola University Chicago IL
1.3%
 5