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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1742/equal_help.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Does a College Education Help All People Equally?' data-article-id='2260'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9438'>Higher education has been a dream for generations of men and women all over the world.</span> <span data-start-time='9438' data-end-time='18354'>Many people consider higher education a major step on the path towards success.</span> <span data-start-time='18354' data-end-time='25542'>Most high-paying jobs require a college or university degree.</span> <span data-start-time='25542' data-end-time='34167'>And parents often begin saving for their children’s college years when they are still young.</span> <span data-start-time='34167' data-end-time='42000'>But does higher education improve the lives of all people in the same way?</span> <span data-start-time='42000' data-end-time='57729'>People have long called college the ‘great equalizer,’ meaning it gives students from all backgrounds the same opportunities or similar chances for success.</span> <span data-start-time='57729' data-end-time='65063'>A study released in February 2017 supports this idea.</span> <span data-start-time='65063' data-end-time='73896'>The study comes from a research program called the Equality of Opportunity Project.</span> <span data-start-time='73896' data-end-time='82625'>It is operated by Stanford University and other top schools in the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='82625' data-end-time='95521'>In the study, researchers examined tax records from about 30 million U.S. college students and their families.</span> <span data-start-time='95521' data-end-time='103229'>The tax records were from the years 1999 to 2013.</span> <span data-start-time='103229' data-end-time='120167'>The researchers then compared the earnings of families before their children went to college to the income of individual students about 10 years after they completed their studies.</span> <span data-start-time='120167' data-end-time='125875'>The findings may not come as a surprise to some.</span> <span data-start-time='125875' data-end-time='139792'>For example, it showed a degree from an ‘Ivy League’ or other highly selective school helps students from low income families a great deal.</span> <span data-start-time='139792' data-end-time='148646'>Ivy League is a term for eight private universities in the northeastern United States.</span> <span data-start-time='148646' data-end-time='156917'>Many people consider them to be among the best for higher education in the world.</span> <span data-start-time='156917' data-end-time='166063'>Two of the eight, Columbia University and Cornell University, are in New York State.</span> <span data-start-time='166063' data-end-time='187708'>The others are Brown University in Rhode Island; Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; Harvard University in Massachusetts; the University of Pennsylvania; Princeton University in New Jersey; and Yale University in Connecticut.</span> <span data-start-time='187708' data-end-time='202917'>The study found that about 60 percent of the lowest income students at Ivy League schools earned as much as students from the highest income families later in life.</span> <span data-start-time='202917' data-end-time='214479'>But the high cost and intense level of competition to attend one of these schools can be a barrier for many students.</span> <span data-start-time='214479' data-end-time='224583'>What may be more interesting is what less widely known colleges can do, says Niklas Flamang.</span> <span data-start-time='224583' data-end-time='230875'>He is a doctoral degree candidate in economics at Stanford.</span> <span data-start-time='230875' data-end-time='243563'>Flamang says the study identified 10 less selective universities that also helped large numbers of students escape poverty.</span> <span data-start-time='243563' data-end-time='250438'>The State University of New York at Stony Brook is one example.</span> <span data-start-time='250438' data-end-time='262292'>Fifty-one percent of Stony Brook students from the lowest income group entered the highest income group sometime after graduating.</span> <span data-start-time='262292' data-end-time='270917'>Flamang says this proves that any given college can be a tool for success.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' 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