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[quote=Anonymous]US News rankings are hurting education and the futures of our young people …. For those with ears to hear, and a heart for those being excluded from access to quality educations, please read on with an open mind beyond where your or your children’s alma matas are ranked:

:!: Here is the most impressive rankings for colleges  - those high on the social mobility index -ranking the colleges that allow the most people to succeed in a world with growing wealth inequalities and access to quality education.

:idea: https://www.socialmobilityindex.org

:D Bravo California (and well done on throwing out the naked power grab to oust your democratically elected governor) …. These top ten access generators may not be high up the US News rankings but they are educational power houses.

Rank
SMI
Institution
1
366.426858
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

2
359.3971
California State University-Los Angeles

3
328.993176
California State University-Fresno

4
288.894874
California State University-Northridge

5
282.896227
California State University-Long Beach

6
276.898345
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

7
275.785038
California State University-San Bernardino

8
268.666227
CUNY Queens College

9
267.78645
CUNY Hunter College

10
257.857316
California State University-Dominguez Hills

:!:  :!: According to SMI group, “despite the growing economic importance of the college degree, the proportion of US high school graduates going to college – a figure that increased for decades – is now declining. The upward ratchet in tuition since the 1980's has progressively limited affordability and access to college education. In 1980, for example, college tuition took an average bite of 26 percent of the median family income in the US; by 2004, this figure had more than doubled, to 56 percent.  One of the main culprits driving the tuition increases, and thus one of the central impediments to economic mobility, has been higher education's pursuit of the rankings, particularly those put forward by US News & World Report. Asked to explain the factors behind tuition jumps at Cornell, economists there remarked that "how much the university spends per student for education and maintaining a low student/faculty ratio both weigh heavily in determining rankings. Any slippage in the rankings is extremely costly to the institution." A study published in Research in Higher Education by a former Provost at the University of Rochester added that if a college or university wanted to move into one of the top 20 slots in the US News rankings it would have to increase spending by tens of millions of dollars a year. “

:arrow: This means the often frivolous pursuit  of dominance in the US News rankings are directly hurting millions of students and prospective students by driving up tuition costs and hence creating an even more unequal society than we already had.

:!: Education is supposed to empower our young people not enslave them to life long debt or create so many barriers that they can never get in the front door.

:arrow: Well done Cal and NY and even some deep red states are doing better than most states in providing more opportunities to enter/ stay in the shrinking middle classes.

Ave SMI Rank
State
1
CA

2
NJ

3
NY

4
LA

5
TX

6
FL

7
NV

8
MD

9
NC

10
MS

When are we going to finally reject the often preposterous, and immensely harmful, college arms race perpetuated by US News Best College ?
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