Colleges with the Best Economic Mobility — AdmitQuant
Colleges with the best economic mobility
Ranked by mobility rate — the share of students who rise from the bottom income quintile to the top — from Opportunity Insights (Chetty et al.). A measure of both who a college enrolls and how they fare afterward.
It's the share of a college's students who both grew up in the bottom fifth of the household-income distribution and reached the top fifth as adults — a measure combining access (enrolling lower-income students) and success (their later earnings). It comes from Opportunity Insights' Mobility Report Cards.
How current is this data?
The mobility figures track students born around 1980–1982 (who attended college circa 1999–2004), linked to later tax records. They're the best available causal-quality mobility data but are historical, so treat them as directional rather than a current snapshot.
Source: Opportunity Insights Mobility Report Cards. Historical (1980–82 cohorts); not a guarantee of individual outcomes.
These outputs are estimates from a baseline model — not guarantees of admission, cost, or outcome.