Our goal is to promote Academic, Career, Financial, and Social Success to students throughout college.

Student success is achieved when a student has identified both short-term and long-term goals for each of the four aspects of student success, and gradually works to accomplish those goals over the course of their college career.

  • Exploring academic options by matching interests with majors offered by the university.
  • Building and maintaining an academic plan that helps the student stay on track for a timely graduation while regulating a reasonable course load to reduce stress as much as possible.
  • Deeply engaging with the university through extracurricular activities and on-campus opportunities outside of the classroom.

  • Exploring career options and finding one or several passions to pursue. It requires a lot of research, serious understanding of the career path, and a deep connection to the idea of working in that career.
  • Gaining experience and growing a professional network, including mentorship around the student’s field of interest
  • Applying to career advancing opportunities by leveraging interest, experience, and networks with the goal of leaving college on a confident career path.

  • Reducing expenses by avoiding overspending and cutting tuition expenses by as much as 20% through various savings methods.
  • Getting a good return on investment by ensuring that students apply for competitive careers opportunities they’re qualified for, and not selling themselves short
  • Having good financial management around more general concerns such as scholarships, FAFSA, loans, housing, and student spending.

Our View on Social Success

Although we don’t provide structured social guidance or any sort of professional counseling to that effect, we firmly believe that the student who is more socially connected to their school is far more likely to find success than the student who feels detached. We believe students who are academically, professionally, and financially successful in college find social success with relative ease.

Joining student groups, picking an empowering major, developing a career, and so many other skill-building activities are also very social activities. It’s the joy of college! Growing and having fun at the same time. Students who are well informed of what’s happening on their campus are better positioned to take advantage not just of academic, career, and financial opportunities, but also social opportunities.

We believe by focusing on the other three aspects of student success, by being well informed, and by taking an active approach towards their own success, students quickly and naturally build a healthy social life in college. In this respect, First Degree does guide students to a certain level of social success.