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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bryn Mawr College PA | 8 | |
| Wellesley College MA | 8 | |
| Amherst College MA | 10 | |
| CUNY Brooklyn College NY | 8 | |
| Wesleyan University CT | 9 | |
| Columbia University NY | 74 | |
| Williams College MA | 8 | |
| CUNY Hunter College NY | 5 | |
| Vassar College NY | 6 | |
| Harvard University MA | 112 | |
| Barnard College NY | 5 | |
| Yale University CT | 47 | |
| Washington University in St Louis MO | 6 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 19 | |
| CUNY City College NY | 6 | |
| Brigham Young University UT | 8 | |
| University of Utah UT | 7 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 11 | |
| New York University NY | 21 | |
| Oberlin College OH | 5 | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC | 10 | |
| Brown University RI | 12 | |
| Vanderbilt University TN | 5 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 18 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 29 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 21 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 10 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 17 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 22 | |
| Cornell University NY | 15 | |
| Stanford University CA | 16 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 11 |