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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – UC Merced was named the apical assemblage successful the federation for “social mobility” by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
According to officials with UC Merced, the ranking was owed to their occurrence and committedness to attracting, retaining, and helping students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds implicit their degrees and postgraduate into fruitful careers.
“At UC Merced, we routinely accidental that we don’t bash what we bash for rankings, but erstwhile you excel others volition ever instrumentality notice,” Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz said. “We anticipation this caller acknowledgment volition beryllium yet different accidental for radical to larn astir the exceptional civilization of pupil occurrence that has taken basal astatine UC Merced.”
When compiling the yearly report, the WSJ, on with probe partners from College Pulse and Statista, accidental they examined respective factors including pupil outcomes, the learning environment, and pupil diversity.
The rankings besides instrumentality into relationship the proportionality of students from lower-income families, graduation rates, interaction connected postgraduate salaries, and affordability.
“UC Merced is redefining post-secondary accidental and excellence,” Muñoz said. “For acold excessively long, lower-income students, including those from our region, were told that a UC acquisition was unattainable. But acknowledgment to the tireless enactment of our module and staff, arsenic good arsenic our partners and supporters, that is nary longer the case.”
According to the university, astir 60% of their pupil assemblage is Pell-Grant eligible and 65% are first-generation.
UC Merced said it is capable to assistance these students determination up the socio-economic ladder by providing them with readily accessible resources and getting successful interaction with prospective students anterior to their accomplishment connected campus.
To assistance execute the later, the assemblage says it works with K-12 campuses passim the Central Valley to beforehand assemblage and vocation readiness astatine mediate and precocious schools.
Once these students go Bobcats, the assemblage says fostering a transportation to the field and chap students is stressed to instill a consciousness of belonging, and regular check-ins are conducted to measurement pupil progress.
