Montana Tech's top national ranking in the CollegeNET, Inc. Social Mobility Index was recently feature in the online publication NerdScholar.
The Social Mobility Index is a new data-driven ranking system that compares higher education institutions according to how efficiently they advance low-Income students through graduation into good careers.
The story, featured in NerdScholar's education section, can be found at www.nerdwallet.com/blog/nerdscholar/2014/social-mobility-index.
CollegeNET, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based on-demand technologies for higher education, and PayScale, Inc, the leader in cloud compensation data and software, today introduced the Social Mobility Index (SMI), a new data-driven ranking system that compares the extent to which US colleges and universities efficiently graduate students from low-income economic backgrounds into promising careers (socialmobilityindex.org).