Yahoo News - October 16, 2014
Anybody who studies lists of
best colleges is used to seeing Ivy League schools and a few other elite
perennials filling the top 10. But in a new list of rankings meant to
identify the best colleges for lower-income students, the Ivies are
closer to the bottom than the top. Montana Tech is the No. 1 school in a new “social mobility index” generated by CollegeNet, a higher-education technology company, and Payscale, a compensation-data firm. The SMI rankings
are meant to highlight schools that do the best job of helping
disadvantaged students graduate with the ability to start a career free
of crushing levels of debt. Five criteria determine the SMI rankings:
tuition, percentage of the student body from low-income households,
graduation rate, salaries of grads once they start working, and the size
of each school’s endowment. Here are the top and bottom 10:
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