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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
Harvard University MA
467
 22.4×
Columbia University NY
415
 25.0×
Yale University CT
237
 34.9×
New York University NY
172
 9.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
147
 6.5×
Stanford University CA
146
 16.9×
University of Iowa IA
134
 8.3×
University of Michigan MI
131
 4.3×
University of Chicago IL
115
 6.9×
Brown University RI
107
 34.7×
Cornell University NY
106
 9.9×
Princeton University NJ
91
 19.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
82
 5.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
82
 4.3×
Barnard College NY
76
 36.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
75
 2.6×
Northwestern University IL
74
 5.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
65
 3.6×
Vassar College NY
63
 73.7×
University of Minnesota MN
57
 1.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
56
 1.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
56
 4.1×
Boston University MA
55
 3.1×
Syracuse University NY
53
 3.5×
University of Southern California CA
51
 3.1×
University of Washington WA
51
 1.0×
Ohio State University OH
49
 1.1×
San Francisco State University CA
48
 3.9×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
46
 2.0×
Brigham Young University UT
46
 4.5×
University of Virginia VA
45
 5.1×
Smith College MA
44
 19.1×
Oberlin College OH
42
 35.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
42
 1.3×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
41
 59.4×
CUNY City College NY
40
 1.2×
Dartmouth College NH
39
 13.5×
Duke University NC
39
 3.4×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
37
 2.8×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 1.1×

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
Vassar College NY
9.8%
 63
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT
7.2%
 24
Antioch College OH
7.0%
 22
Sarah Lawrence College NY
6.9%
 41
Barnard College NY
6.3%
 76
Bennington College VT
6.2%
 22
San Francisco State University CA
5.9%
 48
Oberlin College OH
5.9%
 42
Brown University RI
5.5%
 107
Emerson College MA
5.5%
 17
Columbia University NY
4.8%
 415
Smith College MA
4.7%
 44
Washington University in St Louis MO
4.6%
 35
Bryn Mawr College PA
4.6%
 25
Kenyon College OH
4.4%
 19
CUNY Hunter College NY
4.4%
 29
Mount Holyoke College MA
4.2%
 18
University of Iowa IA
4.2%
 134
Williams College MA
4.2%
 21
Reed College OR
4.1%
 20
Colby College ME
4.1%
 16
Brandeis University MA
4.0%
 23
Middlebury College VT
3.8%
 19
University of California-Davis CA
3.6%
 21
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
3.6%
 37
Brigham Young University UT
3.5%
 46
Manhattan University NY
3.4%
 8
Wellesley College MA
3.4%
 30
Hamilton College NY
3.3%
 15
Yale University CT
3.3%
 237
The University of Montana MT
3.3%
 23
Amherst College MA
3.2%
 26
Pomona College CA
3.2%
 11
Lawrence University WI
3.2%
 5
Macalester College MN
3.1%
 7
Binghamton University NY
3.1%
 25
The New School NY
3.1%
 24
Bowdoin College ME
3.1%
 18
Ithaca College NY
3.0%
 8
Tufts University MA
2.9%
 23