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