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
| School | Alumni | vs. typical |
|---|---|---|
| Columbia University NY | 32.1× | |
| Harvard University MA | 30.4× | |
| Princeton University NJ | 50.8× | |
| University of Chicago IL | 23.8× | |
| Yale University CT | 21.7× | |
| University of Michigan MI | 4.9× | |
| New York University NY | 7.6× | |
| Northwestern University IL | 13.3× | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 4.8× | |
| Brown University RI | 30.8× | |
| Cornell University NY | 10.7× | |
| Stanford University CA | 8.9× | |
| Amherst College MA | 45.3× | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 3.6× | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 3.7× | |
| George Washington University DC | 6.5× | |
| CUNY City College NY | 4.9× | |
| The University of Texas at Austin TX | 3.2× | |
| University of Minnesota MN | 1.9× | |
| Boston University MA | 3.7× | |
| Florida State University FL | 3.5× | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 5.9× | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 2.1× | |
| University of Georgia GA | 3.6× | |
| University of Kansas KS | 2.2× | |
| Fordham University NY | 6.0× | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 5.9× | |
| Tulane University LA | 11.1× | |
| Bryn Mawr College PA | 44.7× | |
| Tufts University MA | 10.1× |
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 alumni | Alumni |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst College MA | 5 | |
| Columbia University NY | 31 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 12 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 14 | |
| Harvard University MA | 29 |