Southeast Tech Ranked No.8 in Brookings Institute Study

Southeast Tech was recently ranked No. 8 in a study by the Brookings Institute on middle-class mobility in higher education. Each institution was analyzed to see how a school’s selectivity, size, or sector impacts students’ future economic outcomes. 

Building on the College Scorecard Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education, the Opportunity Insights Mobility Report Cards use de-identified data from tax returns, linked to information about colleges, to construct a publicly available database for colleges in the United States. Although they provide many measures in the Mobility Report Cards, the Opportunity Insights team focuses primarily on upward mobility for the lowest-income students—those whose parents’ income falls in the bottom quintile—and on the likelihood that those students make it all the way to the top earnings quintile as young adults. This “Bottom-to-Top” measure of mobility is important, but it is not the whole story. It is important to also consider the prospects for students from a broader range of the income distribution, and in particular from middle-class families.

View the Study