Stevens’ Office of Career Development among Top 20 in US

HOBOKEN, N.J. — According to a survey by The Princeton Review that asked 120,000 students at 366 top colleges to rate their schools , Stevens Institute of Technology’s Office of Career Development (OCD) ranks 16 th among university career services and job placement bureaus across the United States.

Stevens’ OCD was also the only university career development office in the New York-Metropolitan region to register in the Top 20 in the category “Best Career/Job Placement Services.”

“What is so significant to us about our appearance on this list,” said Stevens’ Director of Career Development Lynn Insley, “is that this ranking represents a vote of confidence in the range of services we provide for our students from the day they set foot on campus.”

Insley oversees a staff of four career counselors who work with students beginning in their freshmen year. The director is proud to note that upon graduation, 85 percent of students in the Class of 2007 had found employment with top-notch firms or had been accepted to competitive graduate or professional school programs.

“Our track record is based not just on the number of placements, but on the quality of the employment opportunities our students obtain when they leave Stevens,” said Insley. “We believe that our students receive outstanding job offers with salaries above the national average because of the Institute’s stress on experiential learning: cooperative education and high-quality internships give real-world experience to our students throughout their college years.

"As a result,” she said, "when you graduate from Stevens, you are equipped with a great-looking resume demonstrating proven industry experience. Recruiters from the financial, engineering, telecom and pharmaceutical industries are very impressed by what they see when a Stevens senior or recent graduate sits down with them for an interview.”

About the survey
The Princeton Review survey asks students 80 questions about their school's academics / administration, campus life, student body, and themselves. Tallies for this edition's rankings are based on surveys of 120,000 students (about 325 per campus) at the 366 schools in the book (not at all schools in the nation) during the 2006-07 and / or previous two school years. Ninety percent were completed online at http://survey.review.com. Ten percent were paper surveys conducted on campuses. The schools in the book are not ranked academically nor are they ranked 1 to 366 in any category.

About the book
Best 366 Colleges is one of 200 Princeton Review books published by Random House. Eight schools were added to the book this year. In addition to its two-page profiles on the schools and ranking lists, the book has a new section with lists of “Great Colleges for 15 of the Most Popular College Majors.” The book was first published in 1992. No school has ever paid a fee to be in it.

The Princeton Review is a New York City-based company known for its test-prep courses, education services, and books. It is not affiliated with Princeton University and not a magazine.

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 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special 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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