CSULB students reaching higher
The struggling college student is real. Ramen remains a diet staple and juggling part-time jobs and class loads is a constant battle of sleep over studying. But according to a recent study, many college students who come from lower-income families graduate and land higher-paying jobs than their parents.
And they are hailing not from elite Ivy League universities, but colleges that are accessible to wider populations, such as Cal State Long Beach. CSULB ranked 10th nationally for providing students with upward mobility. The study found that 78 percent of CSULB students who enrolled in the 1990s and came from families in the bottom fifth of the income distribution, ended up in the top three-fifths of the distribution. Upward mobility on elite campuses was much lower, but they also admitted fewer low-income students.The study, based on anonymous tax records, tracked students from nearly every college in the country, including students who didn’t graduate, measuring their earnings years after they left campus.
Colleges dedicated to providing access to students of all income levels were proven to be one of the driving forces for social mobility. Meanwhile, several elite colleges had fewer students from the entire bottom half of the income distribution than from the top 1 percent.An Upward Mobility Top 10
An Upward Mobility Top 10
Colleges ranked by percent of students from the bottom fifth of the income distribution who end up in the top three-fifths.
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1. New Jersey Institute of Technology |
85% |
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2. Pace |
82% |
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3. Cal State, Bakersfield |
82% |
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4. University of California, Irvine |
81% |
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5. Cal Poly Pomona |
81% |
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6. Xavier of Louisiana |
80% |
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7. Stony Brook |
79% |
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8. San Jose State |
79% |
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9. Baruch |
79% |
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10. Cal State, Long Beach |
78% |
