Stevens Institute of Technology has been recognized as follows:

• Stevens has been ranked by Forbes.com at #3 among US research universities for the high percentage of return on its research investment.
• Stevens has been named 2008 Jostens Institution of the Year by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC).
• Stevens has been named one of the "25 Most Connected Campuses 2009" by The Princeton Review and Seventeen magazine. Hoboken was named among the 20 Best College Towns in the US in the same survey.
• The US Distance Learning Association has honored Stevens' WebCampus for a third consecutive year for excellence in distance learning  with its  21st Century Award for Best Practices in Distance Learning .
• Stevens is among the first universities in the United States to be designated by the US National Security Agency (NSA) as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research for academic years 2008-2013.
• Stevens has been chosen by the Department of Homeland Security as one of 11 US research universities to establish five Centers of Excellence in Homeland Security Research; Stevens will establish a National Center of Excellence in Port Security Research. 
• Stevens' numerical ranking is 75 in the US News & World Report "Best National Colleges and Universities 2008."
• Stevens' Athletics program has received the 2007 Jostens/NADIIIAA Community Service Award of Merit.
• Stevens is the recipient of the 2007 Excellence in Technology Education Award from the New Jersey Technology Council.
• Stevens' China Program—management and technical degrees delivered in collaboration with top universities in China—has been named "most outstanding online teaching and learning program" by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the nation’s most vigorous philanthropic supporter of online and blended learning.
• Stevens' Office of Career Development has been ranked nationally by The Princeton Review as standing among the Top 20 career guidance and experiential education services in US higher education.
• Stevens has been selected as one of CosmoGIRL!’s 50 best colleges for women and is featured in the magazine’s October 2006 issue. The magazine selected schools that provide the best environment specifically for female students, highlighting factors such as female role models on campus, quality of women’s sports programs, availability of entrepreneurial courses, career centers, job placement and effectiveness of alumni networks.
  
• Stevens has been re-designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency for the academic years 2006-2009.
• Stevens has been awarded the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) Certificate for National Standards 4011 and 4013E, a recognition that in 2006 Stevens' curriculum satisfies these standards for Information Systems Security professionals established by the US National Security Agency.
• Stevens was ranked among The Princeton Review's "Top 25 Most Connected Campuses 2006" - a ranking that acknowledges Stevens' national prowess in wired and wireless technology for students on campus.
• The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Board presented Stevens' WebCampus with the 21st Century Best Practices 2005 Award for Distance Learning. The award recognizes the leadership of trend-setting and innovative corporations and nonprofit agencies and is the highest award bestowed upon an organization in the industry.
• Stevens' Howe School of Technology Management has been cited among the "World's Elite Research Institutions in Management of Technology" by the International Association for Management of Technology, 2005.
• The Princeton Review has ranked Stevens among the Top 25 Most Entrepreneurial Campuses in 2004.
• Optimize magazine ranked Stevens as one of the five top national business and technology schools for preparing future executives to manage technology – oriented businesses.
• Stevens’ Howe School ranked in national Top 10 for research excellence in Management of Technology by the Journal of Product Innovation Management.
• Stevens has been named a Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation by SAP and IDS Scheer.
• The National Security Agency has designated Stevens a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education 2003-2006.
• The Sloan Consortium, a prestigious group of learning institutions funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has recognized Stevens’ online university, WebCampus. Stevens, as the nation’s best “Institute-Wide Online Teaching and Learning Programming.”
• In 2003, Stevens ranked #1 in the country in The Princeton Review’s Top 25 Most Connected Campuses – the ranking acknowledged Stevens’ national superiority in wired and wireless technology for students on campus.
• “Technogenesis”, the Stevens Comcast science and technology half-hour series, was awarded seven Telly Awards for Excellence over a five-year period.
• 50% of Stevens’ engineering students participate in cooperative education. Stevens is one of eleven institutions accredited by the Accreditation Council for Cooperative Education.