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Some colleges graduate many times more notable alumni than others.

This is a list of selected institutions of higher education, along with counts of their alumni with Wikipedia pages. The last column adjusts the counts by size and founding date, producing the number of alumni with pages per thousand alumni.

If you'd like to see a particular college rise in the ranking, go write some articles!


red-outlined triangle containing exclamation point Bad assumptions:

  • The present size of an institution is the size it's always been (the total alumni count is estimated using age×student body size/4)
  • All alumni of an institution are categorized
  • All notable alumni of an institution have a page, and all alumni with a page are notable
  • Alumni categories have no diffused subcategories


Liberal arts colleges[edit]

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Albion College 114 1.608
Allegheny College 129 1.394
Alma College 27 0.552
Amherst College 916 9.730
Barnard College 849 9.561
Bard College 282 3.354
Bates College 236 3.138
Bowdoin College 502 4.837
Bryn Mawr College 621 10.396
Carleton College 283 3.404
Claremont McKenna College 90 3.421
Colby College 263 2.493
Colorado College 177 2.360
Connecticut College 154 2.929
Davidson College 186 2.159
Dickinson College 250 1.769
Franklin College (Indiana) 35 0.737
Grinnell College 249 3.229
Goucher College 157 2.242
Hamilton College 345 3.229
Hampden–Sydney College 121 1.957
Harvey Mudd College 70 4.534
Haverford College 301 4.659
Hartwick College 29 0.426
Hillsdale College 84 1.256
Houghton University 29 0.811
Macalester College 167 2.048
Middlebury College 466 3.329
Mount Holyoke College 450 4.185
New College of Florida 50 3.729
Oberlin College 1,095 8.234
Occidental College 225 3.404
Pitzer College 51 2.863
Pomona College 526 9.087
Reed College 382 9.103
Saint Anselm College 77 1.132
Sarah Lawrence College 355 8.518
Scripps College 56 2.061
Skidmore College 132 1.626
Smith College 782 8.191
Swarthmore College 665 9.973
Trinity College (Connecticut) 276 2.458
Ursinus College 54 0.947
Vassar College 860 8.614
Washington College 63 0.571
Washington and Lee University 328 2.169
Wellesley College 750 7.874
Wesleyan University 1,016 7.206
Whittier College 76 1.117
Williams College 998 8.409

University undergraduate colleges of arts and sciences[edit]

red-outlined triangle containing exclamation point Caution: Because many university alumni are not properly categorized under the university's undergraduate college, the data in this section should be taken with an extra grain of salt, and it is unavailable for many institutions.

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
College of Brown University 3 0.007
Columbia College, Columbia University 2,299 7.569
Harvard College 3,809 5.813
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences 208 1.639
Yale College 1,771 3.600

Business schools[edit]

red-outlined triangle containing exclamation point Caution: Different business schools have different proportions of undergraduate students, which may affect the data.

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Columbia Business School 460 11.268
Harvard Business School 2,138 37.749
Kellogg School of Management 214 5.117
MIT Sloan School of Management 298 13.264
Stanford Graduate School of Business 319 14.764
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 213 5.174
Wharton School 796 4.487

Journalism schools[edit]

red-outlined triangle containing exclamation point Caution: Different journalism schools have different proportions of undergraduate students, which may affect the data.

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
American University School of Communication 52 1.307
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania 31 23.485
Boston University College of Communication 171 3.701
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism 35 22.955
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 624 62.425
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York 6 7.059
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications 18 0.230
The Lawrence Herbert School of Communication 23 2.863
Medill School of Journalism 254 9.614
University of Miami School of Communication 22 18.949
University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication 49 2.207
Missouri School of Journalism 81 1.241
Moody College of Communication 126 1.953
Ohio State University School of Communication 36 0.817
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications 139 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 104 3.536
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication 37 1.049
University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication 84 4.706

Law schools[edit]

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Columbia Law School 1,359 26.324
Georgetown University Law Center 925 9.847
Harvard Law School 4,011 38.948
New York University School of Law 783 9.748
Stanford Law School 355 18.951
UCLA School of Law 186 10.531
University of Chicago Law School 423 23.231
University of South Dakota School of Law 86 16.647
University of Pennsylvania Law School 498 14.829
Vermont Law and Graduate School 31 5.139
Willamette University College of Law 71 6.415
Yale Law School 1,414 44.960

Medical schools[edit]

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine 89 2.775
University of Colorado School of Medicine 26 0.186
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons 429 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 46 3.392
Duke University School of Medicine 94 8.889
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences 62 1.742
Geisel School of Medicine 47 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
Harvard Medical School 1,003 10.607
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 42 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
University of Minnesota Medical School 80 1.126
University of Nebraska Medical Center 25 0.164
New York University Grossman School of Medicine 187 4.227
UNC School of Medicine 27 0.974
Oregon Health & Science University 31 0.895
Pritzker School of Medicine 91 10.482
Stanford University School of Medicine 148 1.459
Tufts University School of Medicine 83 3.068
University of Washington School of Medicine 39 2.090
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 42 1.096
Washington University School of Medicine 152 3.389
West Virginia University School of Medicine 3 0.058

Music schools[edit]

School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Berklee College of Music 811 7.789
Curtis Institute of Music 310 74.251
Juilliard School 1,304 54.790
Manhattan School of Music 303 14.159
Oberlin Conservatory of Music 108 4.418
New England Conservatory of Music 317 10.769
Royal Academy of Music 706 19.151
USC Thornton School of Music 214 6.436
Yale School of Music 141 21.692