Post by bennyskid on Oct 28, 2017 7:36:18 GMT -8
I'm sitting in the Minneapolis Airport, waiting out a blizzard. The WiFi works here, so I've been playing with some cool statistics I found, comparing how colleges rate in terms of parent's income and the kid's income after leaving each school. The average 'uck parents make $8k/yr more than the average (median) Beaver parent, but the average 'uck grad ends up making $6300/yr less. The stats I found cover over 2000 schools nationwide and ranks them by how well they elevate low-income kids. OSU ranks a little above average, UO a bit below average.
The best big schools are places like UTEP, San Jose St and CalState-LA - decent schools in poor cities. The best schools overall are public tech schools like OIT and *legit* private tech schools. It's hard to compare the Pac schools. The Cal schools look good because the only lower and middle class kids they take are the cream of the crop. But Utah and Colorado were really bad. UW pretty good, WSU not so much (!), AZ schools in the middle.
I added a few calculations to the spreadsheet and came up with my own ranking of Oregon schools. I call this my "Elevation Index" - it's whether the schools are bringing people up or dragging them down. It's a little rough, but I think it's fair. The comments are mine.
Oregon Institute Of Technology - no surprise here. Send your kid here and he'll have a job when he/she graduates.
Pacific University - surprise! I wonder what they are doing right, because most private schools do not do this well.
Eastern Oregon University - lots of poor rural kids here getting a leg up. I spent a year here myself.
Oregon State University - not bad
University Of Portland
Linfield College
Concordia University
Western Oregon University
Pioneer Pacific College
Willamette University
George Fox University
Portland State University - your average big school.
Corban University
Southern Oregon University - infamous party school
University Of Oregon - about what we all expected.
Lewis & Clark College
Art Institute Of Portland - just burn the tuition money and start spray-painting railroad cars.
Multnomah University - "university"? Do they really call it that?
Reed College - you saw this coming, didn't you?
But I did find one school in the Pacific Northwest worse than Reed . . . Evergreen State. It's hard to believe that the state funds such a sinkhole.
If you are interested in the raw data, check out:
www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/index.html#movers
www.equality-of-opportunity.org/data/college/mrc_table2.csv
