Rankings and Recognition

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At Stevens, we like to let numbers do the talking. We are a right-sized campus and a community that fosters students’ academic growth, personal development and success.

Overall

Stevens Value

Academic Programs

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 40 in “Undergraduate Finance”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 29 in “Undergraduate Business Analytics”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 18 in “Undergraduate Business Management Information Systems”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 100 in “Undergraduate Computer Science Programs”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 71 in “Undergraduate Engineering Programs”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 127 in “Undergraduate Business Programs”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 72 in “Best Business Schools”

  • U.S. News & World Report: No. 83 in “Best Engineering Schools: Graduate”

  • U.S. News & World Report

    • No. 11 in Best Online Master's in Info Tech Programs

    • No. 26 in Best Online Master's in Engineering Programs

    • No. 35 in Best Online Master's in Business Programs (Excluding MBA)

    • No. 60 in Best Online MBA Programs

  • The Princeton Review: Among “Best Business Schools”

  • The Princeton Review: Among “Best Online MBA Programs”

  • GradReports: Ranked on 3 lists of the best colleges by earnings on year out of college: 

    • No. 1 Best Mathematics Master’s Degrees

    • No. 2 Best Bachelor’s Degrees in New Jersey 

    • No. 15 Best Biomedical Engineering Master’s Degrees 

  • College Factual

    • No. 2 out of 30 in Best Bachelor's Degree

    • No. 1 out of 17 in Best Mathematics Bachelor's Degree

    • No. 1 out of 17 in Best General Mathematics Bachelor's Degre 

    • No. 1 out of 32 in Best Business, Management & Marketing Bachelor's Degree

    • No. 3 out of 30 in Best Master's Degree 

    • No. 1 out of 28 in Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree 

    • No. 1 out of 24 in Best General Business Administration and Management Master's Degree

    • No. 1 out of 7 in Best Mathematics & Statistics Master's Degree

    • No. 2 out of 23 in Best Doctor's Degree

    • No. 15 out of 152 in Best Mathematics & Statistics Doctor's Degree

    • No. 17 out of 130 in Best General Mathematics Doctor's Degree

    • No. 17 out of 131 in Best Mathematics Doctor's Degree:

    • Ranked on 12 lists of the best New Jersey colleges by degree program:

  • Best Degree Programs: No. 5 of “30 Great Small Colleges for STEM Degrees”

  • University HQ: Online Master's Degree in Data Science - Best of 2023



Athletics

  • Ranked 18th in the 2024 Learfield Directors’ Cup Division III

  • Won the 2023 NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball National Championship

  • 10 MAC Conference Championships in the 2022-2023 School Year

  • Justin Cross '23 named NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Academic All-American of the Year for the 2022 season

  • Brett Kaliner, '21, '22 won the 2022 NCAA Division III National Championship

  • Gina Dello Russo, '20 won the outdoor 400-meter dash at the 2021 NCAA Division III National Championship

  • Named the 2008 and 2013 Eastern College Athletic Conference Institution of the Year, honoring the ECAC Institution which exemplifies the highest standards of collegiate academics and athletic performance.

  • Captured the CAANJ Cup, honoring the N.J. DIII institution with the most athletic success, for the 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2017-18 seasons.

Campus Life, Safety & Sustainability

Leadership and Innovation

  • Stevens ACES (Accessing Careers in Engineering and Science) program honored with the 2019 Innovation in Education Award by the New Jersey Tech Council

  • Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the Power List 2022: Higher Education by ROI NJ Influencers

  • Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the 2022 NJBiz Education Power 50 list

  • Stevens received a new patent for mass spectrometry technique

  • Stevens' Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) awarded $60 million, five-year IDIQ contract from U.S. Department of Defense

  • Stevens' Science and Technology Studies Program received grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Stevens' Workshop on Nuclear Issues Education received grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York

 

Faculty and Student Awards

  • Professors Yu Gan, Raviraj Nataraj, Elnaz Banan Sadeghian and Jie Shen were each awarded 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards for promising early-career research in biomedical imaging, VR-based spinal cord-injury rehabilitation therapies, data density and storage capacity enhancement, and fairness in learning models, respectively.

  • Professor Dibyendu "Dibs" Sarkar was awarded approximately $1.3 million by the Department of Defense to study methods of removing PFAS "forever chemicals" and other contaminants from soil and water.

  • Matthew Libera and Hongjun Wang received $1.3 million in support from the NSF for a collaborative project developing infection-resistant scaffolds for engineering human tissues with colleagues at Binghamton University, City College of New York, Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School.

  • Undergraduate Krish Nair’s mobile-app startup was selected as one of the world’s 20 best student startups by TechCrunch in 2022.

  • Professors Jinho Kim, Kathrin Smetana and Annie Zhang were each awarded 2022 NSF CAREER awards for promising early-career research in lung rehabilitation, complex mathematical analysis, and the thermal properties of graphene, respectively.

  • Professor Jae Chul Kim received a 2022 Early Career Research Program Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for his work to improve battery technologies.

  • Professor Woo Lee, doctoral student Linh Le and alumnus De Kong M.S. '11 received a collective 2021 Edison Patent Award in Technology Transfer from the from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for their U.S. patent "Graphene-based Films in Sensor Applications.”

  • Undergraduate Ben Mirtchouk won the 2021 TCS CodeVita coding challenge, besting more than 136,000 participants from 34 nations in the global competition.