Class of 2014Class of 2014

• 1294 SAT average • 3.8 GPA• Top 10% Rank in Class• 381 with 4.0 GPAs• 55 valedictorians• 34 salutatorians• 34% women• 10% domestic students of

color• 35% students from

outside of New England

Freshman to Sophomore Retention: up to 95 percent

33 states representedFeeder States = MA, CT, NH, NY, RI, CA

33 states representedFeeder States = MA, CT, NH, NY, RI, CA

Germany ▪ India ▪ Bangladesh ▪ Sri Lanka ▪ Kazakhstan ▪ Turkey ▪ Bulgaria Mauritius ▪ Korea ▪ Vietnam ▪ Jamaica China ▪ Nepal ▪ Dominican Republic Pakistan ▪ Ecuador ▪ Panama ▪ Switzerland ▪ United Kingdom ▪ Venezuela ▪ Albania ▪ Greece ▪ Japan Romania ▪ Brazil ▪ Israel ▪ Nigeria ▪ United Arab Emirates ▪ Austria

60 nations represented: A sampling 60 nations represented: A sampling

Admissions and Enrollment TrendsAdmissions and Enrollment Trends

2010 2009 2008 2007Applicants 6,650 6,285 5,705 5,698Admitted students 3,930 3,986 3,803 3,739 Matriculated students 910 925 905 805

2010 2009 2008 2007Total enrollment 3,537 3,391 3,075 2,981Female enrollment 1,058 948 825 771Male enrollment 2,479 2,443 2,250 2,210Underrepresented minorities 304 284 282 226

Performing on the Court, in the Classroomand for the Community

• 18% of all students compete on a varsity team

• Only Division III program in New England with the men’s and women’s basketball teams winning 20 games in each of the last two seasons

• Overall team GPA is 3.24 for 645 student athletes

• High level of community service involvement

Active and Involved Student Life• 40% of students participate

in intramural sports• 21% in club activities• 56% increase in women’s

participation in varsity athletics since 2007

Achievement that Matters

Aaron Champagne ‘11, a running back on the WPI football team:

• Named an ESPN The Magazine “Academic All-American” for second consecutive season in November 2010

• First football player to earn the prestigious Academic All-American honor in the 120 years the sport has been played at WPI

• One of eight players on the team of 48 with a perfect 4.0 GPA 

Broad and Deep Involvement in the Arts

• Payscale.com: WPI ranked top 10 in the nation for graduates with the highest starting median salary.

• U.S. News & World Report: 2011 “America’s Best Colleges” edition named WPI to its “Great Schools, Great Prices” list.

• The Princeton Review: “2011 Best Colleges” named WPI one of the best colleges in the Northeast, and ranked WPI 20th among national colleges and universities for career services.

Recent Rankings

Great Problems Seminars

Bob Corcoran (center), General Electric Foundation President and Chairman, at a recent Great Problems Seminars Presentation Day

The Eric Hahn ’80 Family Foundation has continuously funded the First Year Seminars

Feed the World, Power the WorldMaking Our World, Heal the World

Global Perspective ProgramGlobal Perspective Program

Off-Campus Activity in 2010-2011Off-Campus Activity in 2010-2011

26 Project Centers

547 Students

423 IQP

89 MQP

10 HUA

25 other

30 Residential Advisors

22 Center Directors

Corporate and Professional Education

Gateway Park: Making Space for GeniusGateway Park: Making Space for Genius

• Biological imaging• Molecular sensor technology• Tissue regeneration and repair• Stem cell therapeutics• Biomaterial development• Neuroprosthetic devices• Bioprocess engineering

Biomedical engineering professor Marsha Rolle’s lab at WPI’s Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Center at Gateway Park

Passion with Purpose: Paul’s Robotics

Undergraduate Paul Ventimiglia, led his team, Paul’s Robotics, to a first-place, $500,000 victory at NASA’s 2009 Regolith (moon dust) Excavation Challenge. The second and third-place teams also featured WPI alumni.

Covered in The Boston Globe and ROBOT Magazine, and on NECN

BusinessWeek ranks WPI’s part-time MBA program No. 1 in the nation

• "A+" rating for curriculum and teaching quality

• stated that, “students laud the technology focus and use of experienced adjunct professors.”

Mark Rice joins WPI as inaugural Dean of Business

Leadership and Innovation MBALeadership and Innovation MBA

In response to requests from our business students, alumni, and other professionals in the market who are looking for a flexible and comprehensive graduate business program, we created a blended learning MBA.

Leadership and Innovation MBALeadership and Innovation MBA

“Enterprises need leaders at all levels who have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to address the great challenges of our complex society—leaders who can deliver both operational excellence and innovation.”

—Mark RiceDean, WPI School of Business

Sustainable Solutions

East Hall: Gold LEED Certified

East Hall

Nitsch/Magliozzi Green Roof—Worcester’s first green roof

Construction Milestone: Pool Arches InstalledConstruction Milestone: Pool Arches Installed

The George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Atrium

Reimagining Alumni Gymnasium

New DeansNew Deans

Selçuk I. Güçeri, Bernard M. Gordon Dean of Engineering

Karen Kashmanian Oates, Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences

Mark Rice,Dean of Business

Exceptional TalentExceptional Talent

16 new educators and researchers added to WPI’s full-time faculty ranks for fall 2010

A record 23 new faculty added fall 2009

more than 70 new full-time faculty members added over the last five years

Achievement that Matters

Diran Apelian, Howmet Professor of Engineering and director of the WPI Metal Processing Institute

• First WPI faculty member inducted into the National Academy of Engineering

• 2010 National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies

• 2010 Robert Earll McConnell Award from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineering, one of the nation’s oldest engineering societies

Sustainable Solutions

Jeanine Plummer, director of WPI’s Environmental Engineering Program, is the inaugural Alena and David M. Schwaber ‘65 Professor of Environmental Engineering

Achievement that MattersAchievement that Matters

Materials Science & Engineering

• WPI, with the Colorado School of Mines, establishes the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling—the first center of its kind in the nation

• New technologies for maximizing the recovery and recycling of metals used in manufactured products and structures

• Funded by National Science Foundation and corporate members, including Alcoa, and GE Global Research

• University partners include Purdue and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Achievement that MattersAchievement that Matters

Educational Technology

Intelligent Tutoring System for improving mathematics education

• Funded by National Science Foundation, federal Department of Education

• Adopted for use in Worcester, Fitchburg, Leicester, and Shrewsbury Public School Systems

Achievement that MattersAchievement that Matters

Healthcare

Neuroprosthetics, integrated with the body and the brain

• More rapid recovery and rehabilitation for military personnel who have lost limbs

• WPI Center for Neuroprosthetics hosts national symposium each year

• Funded by Military Amputee Research Program of the U.S. Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center

Class of 2009 Proud Goat Statue

Class of 2010 Barbecue Area

1865 Society monument

Endowment: Market Value History (in millions)

FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10 FY11$150

$200

$250

$300

$350

$400

$450

$339 Mas of

10/31/10

Change in Net Assets from Operating Activities (in millions)

FY01 FY02 FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 FY08 FY09 FY10

-$4

-$2

$0

$2

$4

$6

$8

$10

Sponsored Research ProposalsFY2004 – FY2009

Awards through Office of Sponsored Research (OSP) – Includes Federal agencies, appropriationsindustry contracts, some foundations.

Corporate & Professional Education (in millions)

Net Revenue

Financial TrendsFinancial Trends

Capital and Annual Fundraising

FY10 FY09 FY08 FY07

Total Fundraising $19.6M $17.5M $25.3M $14.7M

Percentage of Alumni Giving 20.6% 16.1% 16.5% 16.9%