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 Colorado Boulder CO | 5 | |
| University of Michigan MI | 12 | |
| Stanford University CA | 17 | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA | 21 | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison WI | 24 | |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL | 10 | |
| University of Chicago IL | 23 | |
| University of California-Berkeley CA | 31 | |
| Princeton University NJ | 22 | |
| University of California-San Diego CA | 7 | |
| University of Pennsylvania PA | 16 | |
| Brandeis University MA | 7 | |
| Cornell University NY | 15 | |
| Swarthmore College PA | 5 | |
| University of California-Los Angeles CA | 11 | |
| Northwestern University IL | 10 | |
| University of Washington WA | 10 | |
| Yale University CT | 19 | |
| Harvard University MA | 45 | |
| Johns Hopkins University MD | 12 | |
| Columbia University NY | 22 |