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	281.0×
The Juilliard School NY	408	590.7×
Harvard University MA	241	16.7×
Columbia University NY	199	13.9×
Yale University CT	169	24.5×
University of Michigan MI	162	7.2×
Manhattan School of Music NY	144	314.5×
The New England Conservatory of Music MA	124	245.9×
New York University NY	124	5.7×
University of Southern California CA	117	7.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	97	4.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA	91	4.2×
Northwestern University IL	88	7.7×
Princeton University NJ	85	20.4×
Stanford University CA	63	7.8×
Curtis Institute of Music PA	62	601.3×
Cornell University NY	56	6.4×
Oberlin College OH	54	29.4×
University of Miami FL	49	6.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA	47	3.0×
Boston University MA	46	2.8×
University of Minnesota MN	45	1.2×
Wesleyan University CT	45	29.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	43	1.7×
California Institute of the Arts CA	41	83.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	40	1.5×
University of Iowa IA	36	2.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	36	1.3×
Northeastern University Oakland CA	36	63.4×
Howard University DC	35	5.2×
University of Chicago IL	35	4.5×
University of California-San Diego CA	34	3.3×
Brown University RI	31	7.4×
University of Washington WA	31	1.5×
Cleveland Institute of Music OH	31	155.4×
Michigan State University MI	29	1.0×
CUNY City College NY	29	3.3×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	28	1.8×
DePaul University IL	28	2.6×
Wayne State University MI	27	1.4×

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	46.2%	496
Manhattan School of Music NY	35.7%	144
The New England Conservatory of Music MA	31.0%	124
San Francisco Conservatory of Music CA	26.3%	20
Cleveland Institute of Music OH	25.4%	31
The Juilliard School NY	24.3%	408
Musicians Institute CA	19.5%	24
Northeastern University Oakland CA	18.6%	36
Los Angeles College of Music CA	18.0%	6
Longy School of Music of Bard College MA	17.6%	11
Five Towns College NY	15.7%	7
Curtis Institute of Music PA	15.4%	62
Full Sail University FL	9.5%	6
William Paterson University of New Jersey NJ	9.5%	7
SUNY at Purchase College NY	9.3%	16
Roosevelt University IL	8.7%	18
California Institute of the Arts CA	8.3%	41
Hampshire College MA	8.0%	11
California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt CA	7.7%	8
Bard College NY	7.6%	23
St Olaf College MN	7.6%	14
Sarah Lawrence College NY	7.5%	25
Fisk University TN	7.0%	16
Bennington College VT	6.9%	18
The New School NY	6.6%	24
The Evergreen State College WA	6.5%	7
Oberlin College OH	6.4%	54
Lincoln University MO	6.3%	6
Wesleyan University CT	6.2%	45
Belmont University TN	6.1%	8
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University FL	5.9%	11
California State University-Northridge CA	5.6%	22
Lawrence University WI	5.5%	8
Stony Brook University NY	5.5%	23
DePaul University IL	5.4%	28
Santa Monica College CA	5.3%	7
CUNY Queens College NY	5.3%	17
University of California-San Diego CA	5.2%	34
Western Washington University WA	5.1%	7
University of Bridgeport CT	5.1%	5

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity