CSU Stanislaus placed No. 10 out of 539 universities nationwide in a new ranking designed to assess which schools provide the most economic mobility for their graduates.
Unlike many other college rankings, the Social Mobility Index (SMI) focuses specifically on the extent to which a college or university educates more economically disadvantaged people at lower tuition so that they graduate into good paying jobs.
Created by higher education technology company CollegeNet and compensation data firm Payscale, the SMI creates a rating for each school based on criteria such as tuition, family income, graduation rate and early-career salary. CSU Stanislaus was ranked third among universities in the CSU system, which saw 14 of its 23 campuses appear in the SMI.
For more on the SMI, visit www.socialmobilityindex.org.