The Colleges That Actually Change Lives — Measured by Tax Records, Not Reputation Surveys

Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights team tracked 30 million students through anonymized tax records. We built our rankings on their findings. The results look nothing like what you're used to seeing.

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Which Colleges Move Students From Poverty to Prosperity?

Mobility rates from Chetty's research — the data nobody else ranks by.

The Degrees That Pay for Themselves — and the Ones That Don't

Debt-to-earnings ratios, repayment rates, net price by income bracket.

Where Do America's Patent Holders Come From?

Inventor rates by income quintile. Which schools produce creators?

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The Signature Metric

If a Low-Income Student Attends This College, What Happens to Their Family's Economic Future?

We rank every school by its social mobility rate — the share of students who start in the bottom income quintile and reach the top. It's the question other rankings ignore.

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