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Beyond ‘Prestige’: New Carnegie Classification Focuses on Student Success

As widespread public skepticism about the value of a degree persists, a new institutional classification system recognizes colleges and universities that afford all types of students the opportunity to access an education and earn competitive wages thereafter. It’s the latest update to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, which has also spent the past few years retooling its decades-old framework for categorizing colleges and universities.

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