FYE Domestic Programs
First-Year Experiences That Build Belonging
The first-year experience plays a critical role in whether students feel connected, supported, and like they belong.
From orientation and day trips to weekend retreats, community engagement, career exploration, and reflection, we create shared experiences that help students build friendships, connect with their new community, and find their place in college.
Each program is designed around your FYE and retention goals, managed end to end, and built to scale with your needs.
12+ Years Experiential Learning • 11,000+ Students Supported • Multi-Campus FYE Programs
Three Ways We Bring the First Year To Life
Designed Around Your Goals
Create a single experience or an integrated series across a semester or an academic year. Every program is customized around your students, campus, community, and desired outcomes.
Turn your city into a powerful tool for connection.
Day trips, micro-excursions, and weekend experiences connect students with local people, places, ideas, and each other.
Community • Belonging • Place-Based Learning
Center orientation on the place students will call home.
We design and deliver immersive first-year orientations that integrate your city, local communities, and shared experiences to build connection and belonging from day one.
Orientation • Place • Belonging
Connect college to what comes next.
Career-focused experiences introduce students to organizations, alumni, industries, and professionals while helping them explore their own interests and goals.
Career Exploration • Alumni • Professional Identity
Why Experiential FYE?
Orientation Introduces College. Experiences Help Students Belong in It.
Shared experiences throughout the first year create opportunities for students to build relationships, explore their new community, develop confidence, and connect their college experience to their broader goals.
BELONGING
Build meaningful peer relationships.
CONNECTION
Strengthen connection to campus and community.
CONFIDENCE
Navigate new environments and experiences.
PURPOSE
Connect experience to identity, academics, and values.
CAREER CLARITY
Discover future possibilities.
Share Your Goals.
We Bring the Experience to Life.
Program Design • Community Partnerships • Logistics • Staffing
Safety & Support • Student Engagement • Reflection • Impact Measurement
See a First-Year Experience in Action
Northeastern Case Study
EdOdyssey partners with Northeastern University to design and deliver experiential programs that connect hundreds of first-year students to New York City, its local communities, and one another.
94%
built meaningful peer connections
100%
would recommend a day trip or a weekend excursion
100%
felt more connected to their city
97%
engaged with new people, places, or perspectives
Data from Northeastern University’s 2026 post-program evaluations
“EdOdyssey elevates our FYE in so many ways. Their team is exceptional.”
Dr. Shannon Fairley-Pittman | Director, Global Network First-Year Programs | Northeastern University
Let’s Design Your First Year
Whether you're strengthening an existing FYE, launching a new initiative, or looking for additional capacity to bring experiential learning into your first-year strategy, we'll build a program around your goals, students, calendar, and budget.
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