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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Emerson College MA | 18 | |
| Marymount Manhattan College NY | 5 | |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC | 5 | |
| Columbia College Chicago IL | 6 | |
| Kent State University at Kent OH | 8 | |
| Ithaca College NY | 5 | |
| Southern Illinois University-Carbondale IL | 6 | |
| New York Film Academy CA | 5 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design RI | 5 | |
| The New School NY | 5 | |
| San Francisco State University CA | 7 | |
| Marquette University WI | 6 | |
| California Institute of the Arts CA | 5 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 23 | |
| The Juilliard School NY | 13 | |
| Temple University PA | 8 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 6 | |
| New York University NY | 33 | |
| Carnegie Mellon University PA | 8 | |
| The Catholic University of America DC | 6 | |
| Boston College MA | 7 | |
| Boston University MA | 13 | |
| University of Arizona AZ | 8 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 22 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA | 5 | |
| Arizona State University AZ | 5 | |
| University of Maryland-College Park MD | 6 | |
| University of Southern California CA | 14 | |
| University of Oklahoma OK | 5 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 10 |