| 2002 FIRST University Participants | |||
| * Alexandria Technical College | Alexandria | MN | |
| Arizona State | Tempe | AZ | |
| Augustan College | Sioux Falls | SD | |
| Boston University | Cambridge | MA | |
| Brevard Community College | Kennedy Space Center | FL | |
| California State University - Northridge | Granada Hills | CA | |
| Cambridge University | Cambridge | UK | |
| Central Texas University | Killeen | TX | |
| City College of the City University of New York | New York | NY | |
| Clark University | Worcester | MA | |
| *Clarkson University | Potsdam | NY | |
| Cleveland State University | Cleveland | OH | |
| Colorado State University | Ft. Collins | CO | |
| Columbia College | New York | NY | |
| Columbus State Community College | Columbus | OH | |
| Cornell University | Ithaca | NY | |
| County College of Morris | Flanders | NJ | |
| Cuyahoga Community College | Cleveland | OH | |
| *Daniel Webster College | Hudson | NH | |
| Davenport University | Grand Rapids | MI | |
| Daytona Beach Community College | Daytona Beach | FL | |
| **Drexel University | Wallingford | PA | |
| Duke University | Durham | NC | |
| Essex County College | Newark | NJ | |
| *Florida Institute of Technology | Melbourne | FL | |
| George Washington University | Washington | DC | |
| *Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta | GA | |
| Glendale Community College | Glendale | CA | |
| Hendrix College | Conway | AR | |
| Howard University | Washington | DC | |
| Hudson Valley Community College | Troy | NY | |
| Inter American University of Puerto Rico | Bayamon | PR | |
| Ivy Tech State College | Kokomo | IN | |
| John Hopkins University | Baltimore | MD | |
| *Kettering University | Flint | MI | |
| Kirkwood Community College | Cedar Rapids | IA | |
| Lawrence Technological University | West Bloomfield | MI | |
| Leeward Community College | Pearl City | HI | |
| Los Angeles Trade-Technical College | Los Angeles | CA | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Boston | MA | |
| Miami University | Hamilton | OH | |
| *Michigan Technological University | Houghton | MI | |
| Naugatuck Valley Community-Technical College | Watertown | CT | |
| New York City Technical College | Brooklyn | NY | |
| New York University | New York | NY | |
| Niagara Community College | Sanborn | NY | |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh | NC | |
| Northeast Wisconsin Technical College | Greenbay | WI | |
| *Northeastern University | Boston | MA | |
| Ohio State University | Columbus | OH | |
| Oklahoma State University | Stillwater | OK | |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis | OR | |
| *Polytechnic University | Brooklyn | NY | |
| Princeton University | Trenton | NJ | |
| *Purdue University | West Lafayette | IN | |
| Radford University | Radford | VA | |
| Ranken Technical College | St Louis | MO | |
| Rowan Technical College | Glassboro | NJ | |
| Salem Community College | Carneys Point | NJ | |
| **San Jose State University | San Jose | CA | |
| Sinclair Community College | Dayton | OH | |
| South Dakota State University | Brookings | SD | |
| St. Philip's College | San Antonio | TX | |
| Stanford | Palo Alto | CA | |
| Stark State College | Canton | OH | |
| Stony Brook University | Mt. Sinai | NY | |
| *Temple University | Philadelphia | PA | |
| Tri-County Technical College | Pendleton | SC | |
| Trident Technical College | North Charleston | SC | |
| Turabo University | Gurabo | PR | |
| *University of Arkansas - Little Rock | Little Rock | AR | |
| University of California - San Diego | San Diego | CA | |
| *University of Dayton | Dayton | OH | |
| *University of Delaware | Newark | DE | |
| University of Denver | Denver | CO | |
| *University of Detroit Mercy | Southfield | MI | |
| University of Florida | Gainesville | FL | |
| University of Florida Foundation | Gainesville | FL | |
| *University of Hartford | Hartford | CT | |
| University of Hawaii | Waipahu | HI | |
| *University of Massachusetts - Amherst | Amherst | MA | |
| University of Massachusetts - Boston | Boston | MA | |
| University of Massachusetts - Lowell | Whitinsville | MA | |
| *University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | MI | |
| University of Michigan - Flint | Flint | MI | |
| University of Missouri - Rolla | Rolla | MO | |
| University of Nevada - Reno | Reno | NV | |
| University of New Haven | West Haven | CT | |
| University of Northern Iowa | Cedar Falls | IA | |
| University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | PA | |
| *University of Southern California | Los Angeles | CA | |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Hattiesburg | MS | |
| University of Tulsa | Jenks | OK | |
| University of Washington | Puyallup | WA | |
| University of Wisconsin - Platteville | Platteville | WI | |
| Vermont Technical College | Randolph Center | VT | |
| Virginia College at Huntsville | Huntsville | AL | |
| **Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond | VA | |
| Virginia Tech | Christiansburg | VA | |
| Wake Technical Community College | Raleigh | NC | |
| *Washington State University | Pullman | WA | |
| West Virginia University | Morgantown | WV | |
| *Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester | MA | |
| Yale University | New Haven | CT | |
| York Technical College | Rock Hill | SC | |
| Youngstown State University | Youngstown | OH | |
| * Denotes 2002 Scholarship Offering | |||
| ** Denotes 2002 FIRST Robotics Competition Site List | |||