Manor College scored highest out of the Montgomery County colleges included in a new study that measures the schools’ role in intergenerational mobility based on the economic makeup of their students, writes Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox, and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times.

The study points to the fact that some elite colleges have focused more on being affordable than being accessible.

“Free tuition only helps if you can get in,” explained Danny Yagan, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California and one of the study’s authors.

The first percentage measures how many enrolled students are from the poorest 40 percent of the population.

The second is mobility which measures the percentage of students who transition from lower to higher income brackets after graduating. The links go to each schools full report and ranking.

Arcadia University has 10.5 percent from the poorest 40 percent with a mobility rate of 17 percent. Penn State got 9.3 and 16.2 while Villanova University had 16.2 and 9.3.

Of the other Montgomery County schools, Ursinus College had 12.8 and 8.7, Montgomery County Community College at 19.4 and 8.0, Bryn Mawr College at 14.1 and 8.0, and Manor College with 23.8 and 7.8.

See the complete rankings at The New York Times by clicking here.