Olin College of Engineering
“Engineering education, reinvented.”
About Olin College of Engineering
Olin College was designed from scratch in 1997 with a $460M endowment and a mandate to reinvent engineering education. There are no traditional departments — the entire curriculum integrates engineering, design, entrepreneurship, and humanities. From semester one, students design and build real products (in 'Design Nature', first-years build a toy for real 4th graders). Faculty are deeply engaged as project mentors. The college has only 350 students and has become a global reference for project-based engineering education, consulted by over 600 institutions worldwide.
“Engineers should learn to build things that matter — from the very first day.”
Numbers that speak
$460M
endowment — designed from zero with a blank slate
350
students total — extreme personalization
600+
universities worldwide consult Olin as a model
100%
of students do real projects from semester 1
Impact and recognition
$460M endowment — designed from zero
Only 350 students — extreme personalization
Consulted by 600+ universities worldwide
100% of students do real projects from semester 1
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