Verizon selects Stevens for graduate online learning

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Verizon Communications, Inc., the leading provider of high-growth communications services and the largest provider of wireline and wireless communications, has selected Stevens Institute of Technology as a preferred provider for graduate education for its more than 200,000 employees worldwide. This year, Verizon captured the top spot in the telecommunication category of Fortune’s “ America 's Most Admired Companies.”

Stevens also recently concluded similar agreements with two other Fortune 500 companies, The Boeing Company and Intel Corporation.

In collaboration with Verizon's Education Group, Stevens joins a select group of the nation's premier universities to offer graduate programs on campus and online to Verizon personnel. Navigating weblinks on the Verizon site, employees can obtain information about Stevens’ offerings in telecommunications management, technology management, networked information systems, computer science and wireless communications, among other technical and business programs.

In addition to Verizon, Stevens provides 31 other global companies and government agencies, including Johnson & Johnson, Citigroup and other Fortune 500 companies, with graduate education and training on its Hoboken campus, at corporate sites and online.

Verizon personnel worldwide can access Stevens’ award-winning online learning unit, WebCampus, to enroll in 31 graduate certificates and 12 master’s degrees. WebCampus is the winner of the Sloan award as the “best online university” in the nation.

With more than $71 billion in annual revenues, Verizon is one of the world's leading providers of communications services. Its diverse workforce of nearly 215,000 is in four business units. Domestic Telecom provides customers with wireline and other telecommunications services, including broadband. Verizon Wireless owns and operates the nation's most reliable wireless network, serving 47.4 million voice and data customers across the United States . Information Services operates directory publishing businesses and provides electronic commerce services. International includes wireline and wireless operations and investments, primarily in the Americas and Europe .

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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