Intel selects Stevens for graduate online learning

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Intel Corporation, the world's largest computer chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products, has selected WebCampus, the online unit of Stevens Institute of Technology, as a preferred provider for online graduate education for its 85,000 employees worldwide.

Stevens also recently concluded similar agreements with two other Fortune 500 companies, The Boeing Company and Verizon Communications, Inc.

In collaboration with Intel’s Extended Education Group, Stevens’ WebCampus joins a select number of the nation's top universities to offer graduate programs online to Intel employees. By accessing Intel University’s links to local, national and global sections of the company’s website, personnel can now obtain information about Stevens’ online course offerings in engineering, management and science. Intel’s global workforce can enroll in Stevens’ 31 graduate certificates and 12 master’s degrees from anywhere in the world where Intel employees are located.

As a preferred provider, WebCampus will also participate in the company's education fairs held in Oregon , California and Massachusetts to bring awareness of Stevens’ graduate programs to Intel’s workforce.

In addition to Intel, 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. WebCampus is the winner of the Sloan award as the “best online university” in the nation.

For more than 35 years, Intel has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems and software building blocks that are the “ingredients” of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems. Intel’s mission is to do a great job for our customers, employees and stockholders by being the preeminent building block supplier to the worldwide digital economy.

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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