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 | 17 | |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC | 5 | |
| Ithaca College NY | 5 | |
| Columbia College Chicago IL | 5 | |
| Southern Illinois University-Carbondale IL | 6 | |
| Kent State University at Kent OH | 8 | |
| New York Film Academy CA | 5 | |
| Marquette University WI | 6 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 21 | |
| New York University NY | 30 | |
| Rhode Island School of Design RI | 5 | |
| San Francisco State University CA | 7 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 6 | |
| California Institute of the Arts CA | 5 | |
| The New School NY | 5 | |
| Temple University PA | 8 | |
| Carnegie Mellon University PA | 8 | |
| Boston University MA | 12 | |
| The Juilliard School NY | 13 | |
| The Catholic University of America DC | 6 | |
| Boston College MA | 6 | |
| University of Maryland-College Park MD | 6 | |
| University of Arizona AZ | 7 | |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA | 5 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 21 | |
| University of Southern California CA | 14 | |
| University of Oklahoma OK | 5 | |
| Arizona State University AZ | 5 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 10 |