The elite media loves to obsess about the Ivy Leagues. But great public colleges like the City University of New York, once dubbed the Harvard of the proletariat, are far more relevant to most people — and infinitely better at serving the working class.
east coast bias yet again, as the CSUs blow the CUNYs out of the water in the economic mobility rankings
There aere 6 CSUs in the top 10, and 2 CUNYs: https://www.thirdway.org/report/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-rating-higher-ed-by-economic-mobility