More people in the directory studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other university

92 people in the directory studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is also where the most people in the directory earned a doctorate: 60.

The biographies name at least one degree for 884 of the 1,837 people in the directory, and a doctorate for 708. This post counts only those degrees. A person with two degrees from one university counts once there.

Stacked bars for the 12 universities with the most former students in the directory, split into doctorates and other degrees.

Source: People of Superintelligence career records from biographies and OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Data table

University	People	Doctorate	Other degree only
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	92	60	32
Stanford University	83	56	27
University of California, Berkeley	53	47	6
Carnegie Mellon University	45	34	11
Harvard University	32	20	12
University of Oxford	29	16	13
University of Cambridge	28	11	17
University of Pennsylvania	26	16	10
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	22	18	4
University of Toronto	19	11	8
Cornell University	19	9	10
University of Edinburgh	18	15	3
Yale University	18	11	7
Princeton University	17	11	6
Columbia University	16	8	8
University of Michigan	14	9	5
California Institute of Technology	14	7	7
University of Southern California	12	10	2
University of Massachusetts Amherst	10	9	1
Tsinghua University	10	0	10
ETH Zurich	9	8	1
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	9	7	2
Brown University	9	2	7
University of California, Los Angeles	8	6	2
Imperial College London	8	5	3
University of Washington	8	5	3
New York University	8	4	4
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	8	0	8
KU Leuven	7	7	0
University of Maryland	7	7	0
Saarland University	7	6	1
Utrecht University	7	6	1
University of Tokyo	7	5	2
University College London	7	5	2
Georgia Institute of Technology	7	3	4
University of Science and Technology of China	7	2	5
University of Waterloo	7	2	5
University of Wisconsin–Madison	7	2	5
University of Freiburg	6	6	0
Instituto Superior Técnico	6	4	2
Technical University of Munich	6	4	2
University of Bonn	6	4	2
Duke University	6	3	3
University of California, San Diego	6	3	3
University of Chicago	6	2	4
Harbin Institute of Technology	5	5	0
Aalto University	5	4	1
EPFL	5	4	1
Indiana University	5	4	1
KTH Royal Institute of Technology	5	4	1
Chinese Academy of Sciences	5	3	2
Technion	5	3	2
University of Copenhagen	5	2	3
University of Genoa	4	4	0
University of Texas at Austin	4	4	0
Ohio State University	4	3	1
TU Wien	4	3	1
Université Paris-Sud	4	3	1
University of Amsterdam	4	3	1
Chinese University of Hong Kong	4	2	2
Kyoto University	4	2	2
Northwestern University	4	2	2
Purdue University	4	2	2
University of British Columbia	4	2	2
Zhejiang University	4	2	2
École Polytechnique	4	1	3
Georgetown University	4	1	3
Heidelberg University	4	1	3
Peking University	4	1	3
Trinity College, University of Cambridge	4	1	3
University of Milan	4	1	3
IIT Bombay	4	0	4
IIT Delhi	4	0	4
Graz University of Technology	3	3	0
LMU Munich	3	3	0
Max Planck Society	3	3	0
Rutgers University	3	3	0
Sorbonne University	3	3	0
University of Bologna	3	3	0
University of Florence	3	3	0
University of Rennes	3	3	0
University of Alberta	3	2	1
University of Manchester	3	2	1
University of Grenoble	3	2	1
University of Zagreb	3	2	1
Australian National University	3	1	2
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	3	1	2
University of Rochester	3	1	2
Tel Aviv University	3	1	2
University of Iowa	3	1	2
University of Karlsruhe	3	1	2
University of Vienna	3	1	2
École Normale Supérieure	3	0	3
IIT Madras	3	0	3
McGill University	3	0	3
University of Sussex	3	0	3
Trinity College	3	0	3
University of Padua	3	0	3
University of the Witwatersrand	3	0	3

Where they work now

Of the former students of the largest universities with a known current organization, 27 of 271 work at the university where they studied.

Bars split each university's former students into those who work at a university, a company, or an institute or lab now.

Source: People of Superintelligence career records from biographies and OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Data table

Studied at	At universities	At companies	At institutes and labs	Work at the same university
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	46	17	5	8
Stanford University	38	21	9	6
University of California, Berkeley	32	12	2	6
Carnegie Mellon University	21	12	3	3
Harvard University	21	3	1	2
University of Oxford	17	7	4	2