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Mobility rate of top 10 colleges in the United States, 2017

Top ten colleges for income group mobility in the United States 2017

The data displays the ten colleges in the U.S. that had the best income mobility rates in 2017. The income mobility rate is calculated using the college's share of low-income students and the share of those graduates who moved from the bottom 40% of income bracket to the top 40. It therefore gives an impression of the school's ability to improve the outcome of graduates in regards to earnings, an increase in income mobility. In 2017 Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology had a mobility rate of 43.9%.

Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology 43.9
City College of New York 38.1
Texas A&M International University 37.9
Lehman College 36.8
Bernard M. Baruch College 36.2
California State University, Los Angeles 35.7
Crimson Technical College 35.5
University of Texas-Pan American 34.2
New York City College of Technology 33.7
John Jay College of Criminal Justice 33.2