Full Lists of Awards

Awards & Accolades

A sampling of prestigious awards and accolades recognizing WPI as well as our outstanding faculty and students are listed below.

62nd in U.S. News & World Report

Ranked 62nd out of 248 national universities in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2008 issue.

Ranked Among the Top 25 Most Connected Campuses

Included among the 25 universities ranked as the nation's "Most Connected Campuses" by The Princeton Review in 2006. The ranking looks at the student/computer ratio, campus and wireless networks, remote access, online registration, security, and streaming media capabilities, among a number of other factors.

National Honors for MBA Program

BusinessWeek magazine, in its 2007 report on MBA programs, ranked WPI's part-time MBA No. 1 in the Northeast; No. 5, nationally, for student satisfaction, and No. 4 for academic quality. More...

The Princeton Review placed WPI No. 8 out of 282 schools and universities, nationally, that provide the greatest opportunity for women studying business and management, in a 2006 ranking. More...

Professor Receives National Recognition

In November 2007, Robert L. Norton, Milton Prince Higgins II Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was named Professor of the Year for Massachusetts by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (in conjunction with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching). Among the most prestigious awards for college professors, the honor goes to the nation's most outstanding undergraduate instructors.

Gateway Park Garners Significant Accolades

Gateway Park, a 12-acre mixed-use life sciences-based development spearheaded by WPI and the Worcester Business Development Corp., has received several major honors in recent months:

the 2007 Excellence in Economic Development Award for Urban or Suburban Economic Development from the U.S. Department of Commerce
the Phoenix Award™ for the revitalization of blighted and contaminated areas
the 2006 James D. P. Farrell Brownfields Project of the Year Award from the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC) More...
the 2006 Silver Hammer Award from the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce More...

No. 2 for Percentage of Women Biomed Majors

In October 2007, the American Society of Engineering Education ranked WPI No. 2 in the nation for the percentage of bachelor's degrees in biomedical engineering that were awarded to women in 2006. More...

Mathematics Partnership Honored

WPI received the 2006 SPAIG (Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry and Government) Award from the American Statistical Association for partnerships with statisticians and scientists at the National Center for Health Statistics established over the course of a decade by Balgobin Nandram, Sinclair Professor of Mathematical Sciences at WPI.

Students Receive Popular Science Invention Award

Popular Science magazine chose a Major Project by seniors Christian Banker, Michael Cretella Jr., Jeff DiMaria, Jamie Mitchell, and Jeffrey Tucker as one of 10 national winners of the inaugural PopSci Invention Awards, which was the cover story for the June 2007 issue. The students built a 3D computer mouse. More...

Major Honor for Worcester Community Project Center

The Colleges of Worcester Consortium presented its inaugural George I. Alden Award for campus-based educational excellence to WPI’s Worcester Community Project Center and its director, Rob Krueger. More...

No. 7 for Faculty Scholarly Output

In 2006, WPI was ranked No. 7 nationally among small research universities focusing on applied science in the Faculty Scholarly Productivity (FSP) Index, a new study that compares academic programs at universities based on the scholarly output of their faculty. WPI’s industrial engineering program was ranked No. 4 in the nation in the same study. More...

Alumna Named a Woman to Watch

Karen Tegan Padir '90, vice president of enterprise Java platforms at Sun Microsystems Inc., was honored as one of the 2007 Women to Watch by Mass High Tech. The award honors New England's most accomplished women in the high tech industry. More...

Student Named Tops in Division III Basketball

Senior Ryan P. Cain received the 2007 Jostens Trophy, awarded to the year's most outstanding male and female Division III basketball student-athletes. More...

Marshall Scholars

Ian Bonzani '04, biomedical engineering, won this scholarship awarded to just 40 out of 1,000 nominees to study tissue engineering in Great Britain. More...

Goldwater Scholars

In 2006-07, Lynn A. Worobey '08 became the 10th WPI undergraduate to win this scholarship since 2002 (Charles A. Gammal '08 was an honorable mention). It is awarded to only about 300 of more than 1,000 students who are typically nominated. Full list...

Fulbright Scholars

WPI has 12 faculty members who are Fulbright Scholars in diverse disciplines, including Humanities and Arts, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences, and Biology and Biotechnology. Full list...

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

"We warmly commend the Institute for... its innovative and effective approach to technological education that integrates theory and practice and that is ably supported by a highly qualified, fully committed faculty.... Worcester Polytechnic Institute is 'one of the nation's truly fine technological universities'." - NEASC (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) accreditation letter (05/06/02)