Stevens offers two business programs: Business & Technology and Quantitative Finance.  Courses are taught by professors who are accomplished academics and leaders in their respective industries, from former CEO's to technological inventors.  Class sizes are small, allowing for one-on-one exhanges of ideas.  Stevens' business programs focus on innovation and big impact, while fostering a learning environment where everyone knows your name.

Business & Technology
The Business & Technology curriculum focuses on developing bold, transformational, globally-minded leaders who are equally comfortable in the world of business and the realm of technology.  You will take courses in all the business core disciplines - for example, finance, accounting, marketing, international business - and have the opportunity to focus study in a particular business area through your selection of a business concentration.  What differentiates our program is that you will also take a technology concentration of six courses in one or two technology areas.  Finally, your "integrator" courses - unique to Stevens' curriculum - will work together to promote an understanding of how your business and technology skills can be synthesized and leveraged in today's business climate.  Click here for a sample study plan to get a sense of the courses you would take toward your degree.

Quantitative Finance
Quantitative Finance is a young field — just 10-15 years old — and until now has been offered exclusively at the Master’s and Ph.D. levels. Stevens was one of the first universities to launch this as an undergraduate major. Students learn how to use scientific and engineering methods to transform financial markets.  

Applications of Quantitative Finance include:

• The use of mathematical models to support more accurate asset pricing
• Stock selection, asset allocation and investment portfolio analysis
• Computerized trading to replace the traditional “trading pit”
• The quantification of statistical parameters, such as volatility and correlation of returns, leading to new ways to assess risk and design effective hedging strategies

Graduates of the Quantitative Finance Program are prepared for such leading-edge roles as trading assistants, risk managers or analysts.

Minors
Minors are also available to non-business majors in the following areas: 

• Economics
• Entrepreneurship
• Finance
• Quantitative Finance
• International Business
• Marketing

In addition to a mastery of business and technology, succesful business people today need to be well-rounded, with an understanding of and appreciation for the different fields that may complement or influence their own. 

Thus, a significant amount of your coursework will focus on liberal arts and sciences.  Not only will this curriculum provide you the building blocks necessary for becoming an effective professional through courses like writing and communications, it will help you interact with the world around you through courses such as political science, philosophy and ethics. 

Integral to the Liberal Arts and Science Core is the common freshman experience for all majors at Stevens, which includes a freshman writing and communications course and a colloquium that provides an overview of great works in a variety of fields from sociology to philosophy.

Business Concentrations/Major

Every business student at Stevens has the opportunity to specialize in a specific business discipline.  As a student in the Business & Technology program, you will select your business concentrations from the following areas:

• Finance
• Marketing
• International Business

As a student in the Quantitative Finance program, you will keep your concentration within the Quantitative Finance courses due to the highly specialized nature of this growing field.

Technology Concentrations

In addition to choosing a business concentration, students in the Stevens business programs also choose a technology concentration, forming a unique curriculum not found at other universities.

As a student in the Business & Technology program, you will select a technology concentration that enables you to take six courses in one or two technology areas, such as:

• Information Systems
• Computer Science
• Environmental Science
• Biotechnology
• Green Technology
• Music & Technology
• Arts & Technology
• History & Philosophy of Technology and Science

Technology concentrations allow you the benefit of mixing with students in other majors at Stevens, as these particular courses are taught in the School of Engineering and Sciences (SES) or the College of Arts and Sciences (CAL).

As a student in the Quantitative Finance program, you will focus your technology coursework in the areas of Financial Engineering and Computer Science, as these courses provide critical skills for being a successful professional in this field.

Today's competitive and technology-oriented companies seek students who can provide comprehensive, multi-faceted solutions to problems.  Most academic programs in business offer only one capstone course focused on helping students understand how to integrate and synthesize the knowledge they have gained from their various courses and disciplines.  We offer eight!  In the Business & Technology program, these integrators will include the Strategic Business Integrators and the Business Technology Integrators, as described below.  In the Quantitative Finance program, students will take the eight integrators as part of the Quantitative Finance Spine.

Strategic Business Integrators

The Strategic Business Integrators are four courses that help you understand the big picture of business.  In teams, you will follow and analyze the same company throughout four courses, performing rigorous due diligence, writing strategic plan reports, and giving presentations judged by a panel of professors and business people.  In addition to in-depth business analytic skills, these courses help you learn how to think on your feet and communicate effectively.

Business Technology Integrators

The Business Technology Integrators start in the second semester of your junior year and focus on integrating the knowledge you gained from your business and technology curriculum.  The approach of this coursework is highly experiential and entrepreneurial.  You will learn how to identify technology business opportunities and realize those opportunities through the generation of a new business or within an established business.  In your senior year, you will team up with students majoring in your technology concentration area, such as biotechnology or environmental technology, and serve as the business consultant of a senior design project, applying the principles of business to an invention.

The business technology courses immerse you in the unique environment of Technogenesis®, where students collaborate with peers and faculty across Stevens as well as external businesses to bring new ideas and new technologies to the marketplace.  You will learn what it takes to transfer an idea from the conceptual stage and put it into play at solving the world's greatest challenges.  This hands-on experience is unique to Stevens, and is one of the primary reasons Stevens was named one of the top 20 "Most Entrepreneurial Campuses" in the nation by the Princeton Review and Forbes.com.

Students in Stevens' business programs have an outstanding success rate for obtaining internships and securing full-time jobs.

Internships

Business students at Stevens are extremely successful in obtaining summer internships with many of the world's leading companies.  Stevens' location just across the Hudson River from New York City places students a ten-minute ferry or train ride from the hub of world commerce.  Stevens' Office of Career Development has relationships with hundreds of companies who recruit Stevens' students precisely because their rigorous, one-of-a-kind business training has a proven record for helping companies achieve their corporate goals.  Many student internships lead directly to permanent placement upon graduation.

Full-time Employment

Stevens' business students have secured full-time positions at top companies in many different industries, including financial services, pharmceuticals, telecommunications, government, and manufacturing. Examples of companies that have hired Stevens' business students include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, and Johnson & Johnson, to name a few.  Even in this tough economic climate, the average starting salary for a Stevens business graduate is 22% higher than the national average.