Higher Education and Economic Mobility: Who Punches Above Their Weight?

Other CCNY campuses also reached the top ten, with the following rankings and residual mobility rates: CCNY (#3, 7.8 percent), CUNY Hunter College (#7, 4.4 percent) and CUNY Lehman College (#9, 4.0 percent). The HBCU's excelled at mobility, with highly statistically significant ( I p i < 0.001) differentials in mobility residual and a striking + $8,265 residual in graduates' income differential ( I p i < 0.001). The top ten residuals in Online Supplemental Appendix Table 2's first equation (showing greater mobility correcting for available resources) are a very different list from the usual elite top ten in academic rankings. [Extracted from the article]