User:Sdkb/List of colleges and universities by number of alumni with Wikipedia pages

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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 913 9.698
Barnard College 849 9.561
Bard College 281 3.342
Bates College 235 3.125
Bowdoin College 501 4.827
Bryn Mawr College 619 10.362
Carleton College 283 3.404
Claremont McKenna College 90 3.421
Colby College 263 2.493
Colorado College 176 2.347
Connecticut College 154 2.929
Davidson College 184 2.136
Dickinson College 250 1.769
Franklin College (Indiana) 35 0.737
Grinnell College 248 3.216
Goucher College 156 2.228
Hamilton College 345 3.229
Hampden–Sydney College 120 1.941
Harvey Mudd College 70 4.534
Haverford College 301 4.659
Hartwick College 29 0.426
Hillsdale College 83 1.241
Houghton University 29 0.811
Macalester College 167 2.048
Middlebury College 465 3.321
Mount Holyoke College 450 4.185
New College of Florida 50 3.729
Oberlin College 1,094 8.227
Occidental College 224 3.389
Pitzer College 51 2.863
Pomona College 525 9.070
Reed College 383 9.127
Saint Anselm College 75 1.102
Sarah Lawrence College 354 8.494
Scripps College 56 2.061
Skidmore College 132 1.626
Smith College 781 8.180
Swarthmore College 663 9.943
Trinity College (Connecticut) 275 2.449
Ursinus College 55 0.964
Vassar College 860 8.614
Washington College 63 0.571
Washington and Lee University 328 2.169
Wellesley College 747 7.843
Wesleyan University 1,014 7.192
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 2,298 7.565
Harvard College 3,784 5.775
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences 208 1.639
Yale College 1,767 3.592

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 461 11.292
Harvard Business School 2,134 37.679
Kellogg School of Management 213 5.094
MIT Sloan School of Management 298 13.264
Stanford Graduate School of Business 318 14.718
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 214 5.198
Wharton School 797 4.493

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 623 62.325
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 11 1.369
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 4,006 38.900
New York University School of Law 780 9.711
Stanford Law School 352 18.790
UCLA School of Law 185 10.474
University of Chicago Law School 423 23.231
University of South Dakota School of Law 86 16.647
University of Pennsylvania Law School 497 14.800
Vermont Law and Graduate School 31 5.139
Willamette University College of Law 71 6.415
Yale Law School 1,409 44.801

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 27 0.193
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons 429 Error: Failed to fetch founding year
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 45 3.319
Duke University School of Medicine 93 8.794
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 1,002 10.596
Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine 42 1.690
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 82 3.031
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 807 7.751
Curtis Institute of Music 310 74.251
Juilliard School 1,303 54.748
Manhattan School of Music 304 14.206
Oberlin Conservatory of Music 107 4.377
New England Conservatory of Music 317 10.769
Royal Academy of Music 705 19.124
USC Thornton School of Music 214 6.436
Yale School of Music 141 21.692