{"admissions":{"act_25":null,"act_75":null,"admit_rate":58.5,"applicants":11809,"sat_25":null,"sat_75":null,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":null,"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private nonprofit four-year college in MA. It admitted 58% of applicants (11,809 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Cost: about $43,071 a year on average with aid, $78,679 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $103,470 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $862,416 ahead with aid, $719,984 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($134,208); Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering ($111,103); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($109,386).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 3% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 68% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 53, 107 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Nichols School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Northfield Mount Hermon (1.8 per class year, 7 over 4 class years, the past four years); The Cambridge School Of Weston (1.4 per class year, 7 over 5 class years, Classes of 2022-2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/worcester-polytechnic-institute.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8, 25 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (5.0 per class year, 5 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Oratory Preparatory School (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Key School (1.2 per class year, 7 over 6 class years, 2021 - 2026, counted column \"Acceptances 2021\u20132026\"). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/worcester-polytechnic-institute.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/worcester-polytechnic-institute.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":24018},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":24452},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":32350},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":37753}],"full_price":78679,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":43071,"npc_url":"https://www.wpi.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/financial-need/net-price-calculator","tuition_in_state":60965,"tuition_out_of_state":60965},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":103470,"median_6yr_after_entry":85038},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":25,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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