Comparing main university alumni only — counts and multiples below are within that lens (switch it with the tabs at the top).
professor emeritus
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 office held 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 |
|---|---|---|
| University of California-San Diego CA | 7 | |
| Brandeis University MA | 7 | |
| University of Colorado Boulder CO | 5 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 31 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 24 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 23 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 21 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 16 | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 10 | |
| Swarthmore College PA | 5 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 22 | |
| Cornell University NY | 15 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 10 | |
| University of Washington WA | 10 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 11 | |
| Stanford University CA | 17 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 12 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 12 | |
| Yale University CT | 19 | |
| Harvard University MA | 45 | |
| Columbia University NY | 22 |