Worcester Polytechnic Institute's admit rate has risen 13.4 percentage points across the 9 reported years on file.
The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.
Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.
| Year | Admit rate | Enrolled | 6-yr grad | Retention | SAT (50th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 | 61.9% | 1,300 | 90.0% | 95.0% | — |
| 2024-2025 | 60.2% | 1,366 | 90.0% | 94.0% | — |
| 2023-2024 | 58.5% | 1,360 | 88.0% | 94.0% | — |
| 2022-2023 | 57.5% | 1,354 | 89.0% | 91.0% | — |
| 2021-2022 | 60.2% | 1,410 | 87.0% | 94.0% | — |
Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.
Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools Worcester Polytechnic Institute applicants most commonly also apply to range from 5.6% admit to 77.4% admit — a 71.8 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Six-year graduation rate exceeds the national median by 34 percentage points.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 90.0% six-year graduation rate exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 56.3% (per IPEDS, n=1555) by 33.7 pp.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 61.9% admit rate is in line with the national 4-year-institution median of 76.6% (per IPEDS, n=1437 institutions). Most U.S. four-year colleges admit between 61.2% and 88.3% of applicants.
First-year retention is among the highest in the index.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute's 95.0% first-year retention exceeds the national 4-year-institution median of 76.8% by 18.2 pp — a strong signal of student-institution fit at intake.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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