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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wellesley College MA | 8 | |
| Amherst College MA | 10 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 7 | |
| Columbia University NY | 74 | |
| CUNY Hunter College NY | 5 | |
| Oberlin College OH | 5 | |
| Bryn Mawr College PA | 8 | |
| Wesleyan University CT | 9 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 6 | |
| Barnard College NY | 5 | |
| Williams College MA | 8 | |
| Harvard University MA | 111 | |
| Washington University in St Louis MO | 6 | |
| Vassar College NY | 6 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 11 | |
| Yale University CT | 47 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 19 | |
| New York University NY | 21 | |
| University of Utah UT | 7 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 29 | |
| Brigham Young University UT | 8 | |
| Brown University RI | 12 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 20 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 18 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 17 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 21 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 10 | |
| Cornell University NY | 15 | |
| Stanford University CA | 16 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 11 |