From Oxbridge to Harvard and Yale, elite universities are a feature of many education systems. Andres Barrios Fernandez, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman write about the importance of the social circles created by these institutions, which consistently attract and admit students from high-status families. One of their main questions is, do elite universities help to promote social mobility to the top or hinder it?

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4 February 2025

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2025/02/04/the-benefits-of-elite-education-are-more-social-than-academic/

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