State Tech ranked among the best colleges in the nation by Brookings

Posted 6/10/20

With the new summer semester now underway, State Technical College of Missouri announced last week that the school has been ranked as one of the best two-year colleges in the country by Brookings, an …

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State Tech ranked among the best colleges in the nation by Brookings

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With the new summer semester now underway, State Technical College of Missouri announced last week that the school has been ranked as one of the best two-year colleges in the country by Brookings, an American research group founded in 1916.

In its recent article titled, “Opportunity engines: Middle-Class Mobility in higher education,” Brookings ranked hundreds of colleges across the country, with State Tech coming in fourth.

Rankings are based on information from College Scorecard Data compiled by the U.S. Department of Education. Brookings then studied Mobility Report Cards using de-identified data from tax returns, linked to information about colleges, to construct a publicly available database for colleges in the United States.

“Inequality in the United States has been rising in recent decades, while intergenerational mobility remains low,” said Chenoah Sinclair from Brookings. “This means that absolute mobility — the extent to which children are economically better off than their parents — is declining, and intergenerational inequality is increasingly entrenched. A long literature suggests large returns to attending college and points to the importance of higher education for intergenerational mobility. Recent work by Opportunity Insights explores in more detail the role that different colleges play in promoting upward mobility, pointing to significant differences across colleges in the extent to which they enroll students from low-income families who have high earnings as adults.”

This newest national ranking comes after State Tech was ranked the best college in the country by WalletHub in 2019, and in 2018 State Tech was ranked the third-best college in the county by Forbes Magazine, while also attaining three straight years of record enrollment.

“Our outstanding relationships with the companies that hire our students will continue to make State Tech ‘The Employer’s Choice.’ Those same relationships result in an exceptional 99 percent placement rate and makes the choice to attend State Tech an easy decision,” said State Tech President Dr. Shawn Strong.