A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has ranked City, University of London among the top three universities in the UK for social mobility.
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The report, published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in partnership with the Sutton Trust and Department for Education, ranked City as the third best university in the UK for boosting social mobility.
The analysis compares how many pupils from low-income backgrounds or who were on free school meals in the mid-2000s have made it into the top 20 per cent of earners by age 30.
Using this data, each university was then awarded a ‘mobility rate.’ City scored third nationally in this metric with a 5.3 per cent mobility rate. This means that, by age 30, 5.3 in every 100 City graduates surveyed in the report were in the top 20 per cent of earners.
City’s score bettered the benchmark rate of 4.4 per cent and the national average which was 1.3 per cent.
The highest performing courses at City for social mobility included: Nursing, Computing, Economics and Law.
London-based universities also dominated the top 20 places in the report.
For more information see the full IFS report: Which university degrees are best for intergenerational mobility?