Four-Year Colleges and Universities

A new Carnegie Classification measures how well colleges and universities are doing at recruiting low-income and racial minority students, along with whether students go on to earn competitive wages for their geographic area.

Four-year colleges are dubbed "Opportunity Colleges and Universities" if they have both high enrollment by these student groups and students go on to earn wages that are 50 percent higher than the median (or 25 percent higher for colleges that primarily award associate degrees).