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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
New York University NY
783
 23.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
501
 11.6×
University of Southern California CA
425
 14.9×
Yale University CT
346
 21.7×
Columbia University NY
298
 9.7×
Harvard University MA
279
 7.8×
The Juilliard School NY
267
 262.4×
Northwestern University IL
235
 9.3×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
178
 15.3×
Boston University MA
168
 5.5×
University of Michigan MI
161
 4.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA
136
 2.7×
New York Film Academy CA
123
 199.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
115
 2.1×
Brown University RI
106
 11.6×
Stanford University CA
100
 5.6×
The New School NY
93
 13.5×
Cornell University NY
87
 2.9×
Syracuse University NY
87
 3.4×
California Institute of the Arts CA
86
 75.3×
Emerson College MA
83
 24.6×
Princeton University NJ
77
 8.1×
University of Washington WA
76
 0.8×
Fordham University NY
72
 5.6×
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
70
 118.1×
San Francisco State University CA
70
 1.8×
DePaul University IL
68
 3.5×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
67
 33.6×
Florida State University FL
66
 1.6×
Southern Methodist University TX
66
 5.3×
University of Miami FL
65
 3.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
63
 0.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
63
 1.7×
Howard University DC
61
 5.5×
University of Minnesota MN
60
 0.7×
Loyola Marymount University CA
58
 11.5×
University of Chicago IL
58
 1.4×
Temple University PA
58
 1.7×
University of Cincinnati OH
56
 1.5×
CUNY Hunter College NY
55
 1.5×

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
New York Film Academy CA
45.1%
 123
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
34.6%
 70
American Musical and Dramatic Academy NY
27.9%
 32
Marymount Manhattan College NY
26.0%
 33
Emerson College MA
25.6%
 83
New York University NY
25.3%
 783
Pace University NY
25.0%
 27
Carnegie Mellon University PA
23.4%
 178
The Juilliard School NY
21.1%
 267
Chapman University CA
19.1%
 20
SUNY at Purchase College NY
18.7%
 53
Columbia College Chicago IL
17.9%
 33
Ithaca College NY
17.2%
 38
Loyola Marymount University CA
16.9%
 58
Santa Monica College CA
16.8%
 40
California Institute of the Arts CA
16.2%
 86
Montclair State University NJ
15.7%
 22
Point Park University PA
15.0%
 16
Gallaudet University DC
14.9%
 22
University of Southern California CA
14.9%
 425
Sarah Lawrence College NY
14.5%
 67
Elon University NC
14.1%
 12
The New School NY
14.1%
 93
Skidmore College NY
12.8%
 19
Baldwin Wallace University OH
12.8%
 9
DePaul University IL
12.4%
 68
Academy of Art University CA
12.2%
 13
Vassar College NY
12.1%
 53
Fordham University NY
11.9%
 72
University of Evansville IN
11.8%
 19
Bard College NY
11.8%
 36
California State University-Los Angeles CA
11.7%
 30
Webster University MO
11.7%
 18
University of California-Los Angeles CA
11.5%
 501
Barnard College NY
11.5%
 38
Occidental College CA
11.3%
 22
Denison University OH
11.1%
 13
Howard University DC
10.9%
 61
Otterbein University OH
10.9%
 11
California Lutheran University CA
10.7%
 6