Five HBCUs (PVAMU, WSSU, A&T, FAMU, and Southern) are in the top 50. WSSU and A&T are the top two in North Carolina. The others are number one in their respective states.
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Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 5:30pm EDT
Ivy League schools hate these college rankings
Yahoo Finance
By Rick Newman
The luckiest teenagers pick a college based on prestige. But many others who can’t afford prestige simply want the best return on their education dollar -- something that can be maddeningly hard to figure out.
A company called CollegeNet is trying to change that by ranking more than 900 colleges and universities based on how well they improve economic mobility and provide affordable education to disadvantaged families. Virtually none of the top 50 in this “social mobility index” are name-brand schools such as Harvard, Yale, Virginia, Notre Dame or Stanford. Instead, there are names such as City University of New York, Prairie View A&M, Winston-Salem State and Montana Tech.
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Wed, Oct 14, 2015, 5:30pm EDT
Ivy League schools hate these college rankings
Yahoo Finance
By Rick Newman
The luckiest teenagers pick a college based on prestige. But many others who can’t afford prestige simply want the best return on their education dollar -- something that can be maddeningly hard to figure out.
A company called CollegeNet is trying to change that by ranking more than 900 colleges and universities based on how well they improve economic mobility and provide affordable education to disadvantaged families. Virtually none of the top 50 in this “social mobility index” are name-brand schools such as Harvard, Yale, Virginia, Notre Dame or Stanford. Instead, there are names such as City University of New York, Prairie View A&M, Winston-Salem State and Montana Tech.
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