Montana Tech's Social Mobility Index ranking featured on NerdScholar

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).