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