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

School	Alumni	vs. typical
Berklee College of Music MA	496	298.0×
The Juilliard School NY	408	598.2×
Harvard University MA	241	14.5×
Columbia University NY	199	11.7×
Yale University CT	169	23.2×
University of Michigan MI	162	7.2×
Manhattan School of Music NY	144	338.2×
The New England Conservatory of Music MA	124	247.7×
New York University NY	124	5.9×
University of Southern California CA	117	7.8×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	97	4.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA	91	3.8×
Northwestern University IL	88	6.7×
Princeton University NJ	85	18.9×
Stanford University CA	63	8.3×
Curtis Institute of Music PA	62	592.4×
Cornell University NY	56	5.8×
Oberlin College OH	54	27.8×
University of Miami FL	49	6.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA	47	2.8×
Boston University MA	46	3.0×
University of Minnesota MN	45	1.2×
Wesleyan University CT	45	32.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	43	1.7×
California Institute of the Arts CA	41	93.4×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	40	1.3×
University of Iowa IA	36	1.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	36	1.3×
Northeastern University Oakland CA	36	67.9×
Howard University DC	35	5.2×
University of Chicago IL	35	3.8×
University of California-San Diego CA	34	3.0×
Brown University RI	31	7.9×
University of Washington WA	31	1.6×
Cleveland Institute of Music OH	31	161.4×
Michigan State University MI	29	1.0×
CUNY City College NY	29	3.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	28	1.8×
DePaul University IL	28	2.3×
Wayne State University MI	27	1.3×

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
Berklee College of Music MA	44.1%	496
Manhattan School of Music NY	31.8%	144
The New England Conservatory of Music MA	26.5%	124
The Juilliard School NY	21.5%	408
San Francisco Conservatory of Music CA	21.0%	20
Cleveland Institute of Music OH	20.4%	31
Musicians Institute CA	17.7%	24
Northeastern University Oakland CA	17.1%	36
Los Angeles College of Music CA	15.7%	6
Curtis Institute of Music PA	12.9%	62
Five Towns College NY	11.6%	7
Longy School of Music of Bard College MA	11.3%	11
William Paterson University of New Jersey NJ	9.4%	7
SUNY at Purchase College NY	9.1%	16
Full Sail University FL	8.5%	6
California Institute of the Arts CA	8.2%	41
Hampshire College MA	7.8%	11
Sarah Lawrence College NY	7.6%	25
The New School NY	7.4%	24
St Olaf College MN	7.0%	14
Roosevelt University IL	7.0%	18
Bard College NY	7.0%	23
Wesleyan University CT	6.6%	45
California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt CA	6.5%	8
Oberlin College OH	6.5%	54
Bennington College VT	6.4%	18
The Evergreen State College WA	5.9%	7
Fisk University TN	5.8%	16
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University FL	5.7%	11
Belmont University TN	5.5%	8
Lawrence University WI	5.4%	8
Santa Monica College CA	5.3%	7
CUNY Queens College NY	5.1%	17
Stony Brook University NY	5.0%	23
California State University-Northridge CA	4.9%	22
University of California-San Diego CA	4.8%	34
Lincoln University MO	4.7%	6
Clark Atlanta University GA	4.6%	7
Western Washington University WA	4.3%	7
DePaul University IL	4.3%	28

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity