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 |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia University NY | 8.6× | |
| Harvard University MA | 7.9× | |
| New York University NY | 7.7× | |
| Yale University CT | 15.8× | |
| University of Southern California CA | 5.1× | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 3.6× | |
| CUNY City College NY | 2.2× | |
| University of Chicago IL | 5.1× | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 3.5× | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 5.0× | |
| Northwestern University IL | 3.4× | |
| Brown University RI | 36.8× | |
| Cornell University NY | 3.1× | |
| Dartmouth College NH | 13.2× | |
| University of Michigan MI | 1.2× | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 0.8× | |
| Princeton University NJ | 3.6× | |
| Barnard College NY | 12.6× | |
| University of Rochester NY | 2.9× | |
| CUNY Hunter College NY | 0.7× | |
| Stanford University CA | 2.5× |
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 alumni | Alumni |
|---|---|---|
| New York University NY | 14 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 7 | |
| Columbia University NY | 24 | |
| Harvard University MA | 21 |