First Year Program

The goal of the First Year Program is to foster a successful first year experience for students supported by programs and resources that keep them engaged, motivated, and happy—beginning with opportunities to get connected in the months leading up to their arrival on campus, to New Student Orientation, to immersion into WPI’s distinctive first year program focused on a successful transition to college (in and out of the classroom), to initiation into university-level research and the project-based curriculum.

Through specialized programming for first-year students, we are able to boast one of the highest student retention rates in the nation. Additionally, through project-based courses offered exclusively in the first year, students are provided the opportunity to be introduced to WPI’s signature project-based curriculum from day one.