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Working with the Raj Chetty data on institutions and income mobility and thinking that someone else must've certainly noticed something about the institutions championed as good for economic mobility, namely they're all in New York, California and Texas. 
A slightly different scale, but essentially the same thing. Except for one institution, everything is in NY (or NY area), California, and Texas.
Maybe this is obvious, but it seems to me that while it's likely these institutions are doing some things right, those right things matter less than graduating into (and living in) three states with the most dynamic economies in the country.
Unfortunately, a college in Kansas (or Missouri or Kentucky or lots of other places) doesn't have the advantage of graduating its students into these vibrant economic places. Clearly the education matters, but independent an opportunity to put it to work, it doesn't matter.
So when we ask what these places are doing right, the answer might just be, they're located in places where economic mobility is more possible than other places in the country. What's the lesson for higher ed from that?
