Help every student feel confident, connected, and ready to thrive
MCode For Students equips first-year and incoming students with deeply personal insights into what makes them tick, what drives their best performance, and how to create a meaningful, aligned college experience.
Fuel student success and engagement from day one
When students understand the intrinsic motivations that shape who they are, how they show up in the world, why they do what they do, and what they care about most, they discover how they’re naturally wired to work and what they need to succeed in their academics, activities, relationships, and career.
Using the MCode assessment, MCode For Students provides deeply personal insights that empower students to confidently own who they were born to be and be more of who they already are.
MCode For Students helps students engage fully in their academic and campus life from the start, building momentum that drives retention, satisfaction, and long-term success. Campuses that integrate MCode For Students into their first-year experience programs see students more confident in their decisions, more involved in the campus community, and more connected to their purpose.
Campuses thrive when students thrive
When students have a meaningful, successful college experience, they are more likely to come back year after year, get involved in campus life, graduate, find a job they enjoy, and remain involved as alumni.
Benefits of bringing MCode For Students to your campus include:
- Enhance first-year experience and orientation programs.
- Boost student engagement campus-wide.
- Strengthen student belonging and campus connection.
- Improve academic and career advising conversations.
- Increase student satisfaction and retention.
- Unlock a better, brighter future for students and staff.
Traditional assessment tools are failing students
Today’s incoming students are leaving home (many for the first time) and stepping into a brand-new world. They’re navigating new responsibilities, pressures, and uncertainty while trying to figure out who they are, choose a major or focus for their career path, find friends, and succeed in their classes.
Without the right support, it’s easy for students to feel lost and lonely, become disconnected and disengaged, and question if they’ve made the right choices.
Many campuses have turned to personality tests or strengths assessments in hopes of better engaging students, but the results are often vague and quickly forgotten.
They tell students things they often already know: What they’re good at or how they behave. But being good at something doesn’t mean it’s something they enjoy or find fulfilling, and behavioral insights aren’t helpful if they don’t explain the why behind those behaviors or aren’t easy to apply.
What’s missing is motivation!
Every student is motivated differently, and how they’re motivated explains what prompts them to engage, how they prefer to get things done, and what payoffs make their efforts feel worth it.
This fundamental insight is where MCode For Students changes everything for students, faculty and advising staff, and your campus community.
Introducing MCode For Students
MCode For Students is the foundational MCode report paired with student-specific insights that meet students where they are with immediately relevant, applicable, personal insights.
While traditional personality assessments describe what students can do, MCode reveals what makes them care. It helps students understand themselves — how they’re wired, how they work best, what motivates them to show up, and how to make the most of their college experience.
MCode For Students addresses:
Empowering students to be more of who they already are.
At the heart of MCode is the understanding that every student has a unique blend of Motivations that fuels their energy, shapes their behavior, and drives their performance. MCode For Students reveals these inner drivers: not just what students can do, but what they love doing and why.
When students understand who they are at their best, they begin making decisions that feel aligned and energizing, rather than pressured or performative.
- For campuses: This clarity leads to more authentic engagement, better support conversations, and students who are more self-aware, coachable, and confident from day one.
Helping students choose a fulfilling major or career focus.
A student might be good at math but feel completely unfulfilled in an engineering track. Or they might pursue a business degree because it’s practical, but feel drained every step of the way. MCode helps students identify the types of work, learning environments, and outcomes that genuinely satisfy and excite them.
This insight is game-changing. It allows students to either choose a major or narrow their focus within their major so their career path aligns with what naturally lights them up and inspires their best work.
- For campuses: This means fewer mid-semester crises, fewer major changes, stronger academic persistence, and more resilient students who are motivated to stay and succeed.
Guiding students through the process of picking the right roommates.
The transition to college life can be hard. Who students live with can make or break their first year, but most students don’t realize that roommate compatibility isn’t about friendships and similar interests. It’s about aligned motivational wiring and communication styles.
MCode helps students first understand the environment they need to succeed, and then recognize the kinds of personalities and working styles that complement their own. The result? Identifying roommates and living situations that support academic success and emotional safety, and reduce stress and friction.
- For campuses: This means fewer housing conflicts, fewer counseling sessions for roommate issues, and more students waking up each day feeling emotionally supported.
Ensuring students find their people and place on campus.
Even with all the opportunities available, many students still struggle to see where they belong and “find their people.”
MCode combats loneliness by helping students identify the campus clubs, organizations, teams, and groups that best fit who they are and how they can contribute — communities where they’ll feel seen, valued, understood, and appreciated. And when that happens, students gain confidence, have more fun, and truly experience college at its best.
- For campuses: This translates into increased participation, stronger relationships, and a connected, committed student body. Students who feel seen and valued are students who stay.
Give every student a motivated start
The MCode For Students report combines decades of motivational science with practical, personalized insight designed specifically for students stepping into higher education. It gives them the clarity to make aligned decisions, the confidence to engage with purpose, and the tools to thrive — and when students thrive, so does your campus.
Bring MCode For Students to your campus!
Become a campus partner and join the growing number of colleges, universities, and trade schools using MCode For Students to support student success, deepen first-year engagement, strengthen belonging, and increase retention.
