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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


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 850 9.572
Bard College 283 3.365
Bates College 237 3.151
Bowdoin College 503 4.846
Bryn Mawr College 625 10.463
Carleton College 284 3.416
Claremont McKenna College 90 3.421
Colby College 264 2.502
Colorado College 179 2.387
Connecticut College 155 2.948
Davidson College 186 2.159
Dickinson College 251 1.777
Franklin College (Indiana) 35 0.737
Grinnell College 249 3.229
Goucher College 158 2.256
Hamilton College 346 3.239
Hampden–Sydney College 122 1.974
Harvey Mudd College 70 4.534
Haverford College 302 4.675
Hartwick College 29 0.426
Hillsdale College 84 1.256
Houghton University 30 0.839
Macalester College 169 2.073
Middlebury College 470 3.357
Mount Holyoke College 451 4.194
New College of Florida 50 3.729
Oberlin College 1,095 8.234
Occidental College 226 3.419
Pitzer College 51 2.863
Pomona College 526 9.087
Reed College 382 9.103
Saint Anselm College 76 1.117
Sarah Lawrence College 357 8.566
Scripps College 55 2.024
Skidmore College 154 1.897
Smith College 786 8.233
Swarthmore College 667 10.003
Trinity College (Connecticut) 279 2.484
Ursinus College 54 0.947
Vassar College 863 8.644
Washington College 65 0.589
Washington and Lee University 330 2.182
Wellesley College 757 7.948
Wesleyan University 1,021 7.242
Whittier College 76 1.117
Williams College 1,000 8.426

University undergraduate colleges of arts and sciences

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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 2,300 7.572
Harvard College 3,832 5.848
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences 209 1.647
Yale College 1,772 3.602

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 462 11.317
Harvard Business School 2,150 37.961
Kellogg School of Management 216 5.165
MIT Sloan School of Management 299 13.308
Stanford Graduate School of Business 319 14.764
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 215 5.222
Wharton School Error: Failed to fetch alumni category

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 25 3.112
Medill School of Journalism 256 9.690
University of Miami School of Communication 22 18.949
University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication 50 2.252
Missouri School of Journalism 80 1.226
Moody College of Communication 126 1.953
Ohio State University School of Communication 36 0.817
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications 141 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 105 3.570
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication 37 1.049
University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication 84 4.706
School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Columbia Law School 1,365 26.440
Georgetown University Law Center 928 9.879
Harvard Law School 4,021 39.045
New York University School of Law 784 9.760
Stanford Law School 357 19.057
UCLA School of Law 188 10.644
University of Chicago Law School 423 23.231
University of South Dakota School of Law 88 17.034
University of Pennsylvania Law School 500 14.889
Vermont Law and Graduate School 31 5.139
Willamette University College of Law 75 6.776
Yale Law School 1,419 45.119
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 61 1.713
Geisel School of Medicine 47 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
Harvard Medical School 1,004 10.617
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 42 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
University of Minnesota Medical School 81 1.140
University of Nebraska Medical Center 25 0.164
New York University Grossman School of Medicine 189 4.272
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 84 3.105
University of Washington School of Medicine 39 2.090
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 42 1.096
Washington University School of Medicine 152 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
West Virginia University School of Medicine 3 0.058
School Notable alumni Notable alumni
per thousand
Berklee College of Music 812 7.799
Curtis Institute of Music 315 75.449
Juilliard School 1,309 55.000
Manhattan School of Music 306 14.299
Oberlin Conservatory of Music 108 4.418
New England Conservatory of Music 318 10.803
Royal Academy of Music 709 19.232
USC Thornton School of Music 215 6.466
Yale School of Music 141 21.692