{"id":22866,"date":"2014-10-17T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22866"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:00:32","slug":"florida-schools-top-social-mobility-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/10\/17\/florida-schools-top-social-mobility-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Schools Top &#8220;Social Mobility&#8221; Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22867\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The Carnegia Library at Florida A&amp;M University in the 1930s.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/10\/10-17-FAMULibrary.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22867\" alt=\"The Carnegia Library at Florida A&amp;M University in the 1930s.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/10\/10-17-FAMULibrary-300x210.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/10\/10-17-FAMULibrary-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/10\/10-17-FAMULibrary.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Wikipedia<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Carnegia Library at Florida A&amp;M University in the 1930s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Five Florida schools are in the nation&#8217;s top 50 on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialmobilityindex.org\/\">new ranking that measures how well graduates climb the economic ladder.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida A&amp;M University is ranked number three and Florida International University is ranked seventh on the Social Mobility Index created by CollegeNET, a higher education technology firm, and Payscale, which tracks worker pay.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings factor tuition, percentage of low income students, graduation rates, recent graduate earnings and school endowment. The rankings reward schools with low tuition or a high percentage of low-income students, in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State University ranked 29th, University of Florida 40th and the University of South Florida 48th.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the state of Florida ranked number four in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Princeton ranked 360th, Harvard 438th and Yale 440th.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Social Mobility Index ignores factors included in other rankings, such as the opinion of faculty, class size, freshman retention rates and others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If colleges can begin aggressively shifting policy towards increasing access to higher education,&#8221; the rankings&#8217; creators argue, &#8220;particularly for economically disadvantaged students and families, they will establish themselves as a key force for economic and social convergence. Unfortunately, as the SMI rankings reveal, the opposite is occurring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pursuing false prestige in popular periodicals, many schools are wasting money and time groveling to each other for recognition in so-called peer assessments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Social Mobility Index uses private data, so not every college is included in the rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Florida schools are in the nation&#8217;s top 50 on a new ranking that measures how well graduates climb the economic ladder. Florida A&amp;M University is ranked number three and Florida International University is ranked seventh on the Social Mobility Index created by CollegeNET, a higher education technology firm, and Payscale, which tracks worker pay. 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