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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA , 01609
Phone: (508) 831-5000
Email:
admissions@wpi.edu
President Dennis D. Berkey
Founded in: 1865
Campus Size: 80
Student Faculty Ratio: 14 to 1
Entrance Difficulty: Moderately difficult
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Financial Aid Phone: (508) 831-5469
 Admissions Phone  : (508) 831-5286

Campus Description:  80-acre, suburban campus in Worcester, 45 miles from Boston. Served by air and bus; major airport and train serves Boston. School operates transportation to consortium schools and downtown Worcester. Public transportation serves campus.

General Information: Most Selective, Medium School, Private School - No Affiliation Listed, Small City, Male Majority, Graduate Students - High, Any Cost, Handicapped Student Services, Study Abroad, Accelerated Study, Cooperative Work Experience, Reserve Officers - Training Corps (ROTC), Campus Publications, Dormitories, Foreign Student Organizations, Minority Student Organizations, Radio/TV Station, Religious Organizations, Social Fraternities and Sororities, Student Government, Student/Faculty Ratio - Low,



Past Performance:

No. of Doctoral Degrees awarded last year:  25
No. of Masters Degrees awarded last year:  299
No. of Bachelors Degrees awarded last year:  620
No. of Associates Degrees awarded last year:  0

Schools Selected by our Graduates:   Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, Northwestern University, Stanford University, WorcesterPolytech Inst.

Our students hired by:  General Electric, ABB Combustion Engines, United Technologies.

Famous Alumni:  Robert Goddard, founder of modern rocketry; Paul Allaire, CEO, Xerox, Robert Goddard is WPI's best-known alumnus. Goddard graduated in 1908 and is widely regarded as the Father of Modern Rocketry. Robert Stempel, inventor of the catalytic converter and former Chairman and CEO of General Motors. Harold Stephen Black, revolutionized electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927. Antonio M. Celia, CEO of Colombia's Promigas. Kotaro Shimomura, chemical engineer. After graduating, he became president of Doshisha University and Osaka Gas Co., Ltd in Japan. Paul Allaire, previous CEO of Xerox. Burton Marsh, member of the Class of 1920 is credited with being America's first traffic engineer. The Institute of Transportation Engineers highest award is the Burton W. Marsh Award. Nancy Pimental, who earned a Chemical Engineering degree, is one of the writers of South Park and the movie The Sweetest Thing. She also replaced Jimmy Kimmel as co-host of Win Ben Stein's Money. She is an alumna of Phi Sigma Sigma. Henry Davis, the first chairman of NBC, graduated in 1980. Gilbert Vernam, class of 1914, is credited with the dawn of modern cryptography. William Hobbs was a noted 19th century geologist. Elwood Haynes, an early alumnus, was a prominent chemist and inventor and credited for aiding in the development of the automobile and the creation of stainless steel. W. Todd Akin, a Republican representative of the state of Missouri. Curtis Carlson, famous researcher into imaging systems and current president and CEO of SRI International. Anup K. Ghosh, electrical engineer and computer scientist who was awarded the National Security Agency's Frank Byron Rowlett Award in 2005. Michael J. Dolan, current vice president of ExxonMobil Corporation and president of the ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Patrick T. Delahanty '95, one of the founders of Anime Boston, which is now one of the largest anime conventions in the nation. He was also a board member of the New England Anime Society. John Woodman Higgins, founder of Worcester Pressed Steel Company and of the Higgins Armory Museum WPI is also known for its famous drop-outs: Dean Kamen, who left the school without finishing his degree, invented the first portable insulin pump and the Segway Human Transporter; Atwater Kent, who dropped out twice in the 1890s, went on to found the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company which was the world's leading producer of radios in the late 1920s (there is now a building on campus called the Atwater Kent Laboratories); John W. Geils Jr., who founded the J. Geils Band, attended for a few semesters 1965.

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