Approximately 2,500 students, faculty, staff, and alumni live, work, and play in Hoboken. In addition, thousands of visitors — high school students and their families, participants in academic conferences, alumni from around the country, Commencement guests, teams and fans of other universities — also benefit from all that Hoboken has to offer and simultaneously contribute to its economy.
Stevens’ extraordinarily successful graduates go on to contribute to the local and the state’s economy in a variety of ways: more than 650 alumni live in Hoboken and approximately half of Stevens 40,000 alumni worldwide live and work in the Garden State. Many lead some of New Jersey’s largest and most influential companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, and PSE&G, and many start technology-based ventures right in Hoboken.
Within the 2016 fiscal year, Stevens contributed to nearly $135.6 million in city-wide economic output.
In-kind contributions and partnerships also add substantial value to the City, including:
Community Event Space
Stevens hosts community events such as graduation ceremonies, annual State of the City addresses, gatherings of the NJ Tech Meetup, in June 2013, the first TEDxHoboken event, and in July 2014, Senator Cory Booker’s Small Business Tech and Social Innovation Forum.
Engaged Leaders
Stevens faculty, staff, students and alumni reside in all corners of Hoboken and many are as active in their neighborhoods as they are at Stevens. Our community participates in local government through advocacy during city council meetings, serving as technical experts and collaborators on key issues facing Hoboken, from sustainability and energy initiatives, to urban infrastructure resilience, to K-12 education—leadership on the boards of a variety of local organizations such as the NJ Tech Meetup, the Hoboken Chamber of Commerce, the Hoboken Historical Museum, the Hoboken Relief Fund, and many religious organizations. Each year, a group of seniors dedicate their senior year to a Senior Design Project that directly addresses a Hoboken problem.
Active Volunteerism
Our students take pride in the City of Hoboken and give back to the city through their volunteer efforts. Campus Greeks (our fraternities and sororities) team up each year to beautify local parks, our student-athletes engage middle-school students through the Duckling Program, and other staff and students work with local high-schools in robotics team competitions. Explore our Community Impact section to learn more.
Socially-Relevant Research
Stevens researchers are directly involved with resiliency efforts in Hoboken, working closely with the City to design a “microgrid” that would reliably deliver energy during storms and other disruptive events. Students and faculty are collaborating with Hoboken on “Smart City”, a three-year research partnership to leverage information technology and smart devices to help deliver useful information such as available parking space, emergency alerts, and energy consumption. Researchers are pursuing advances in personalized medicine for cancer treatment, improving safety of cell phone use in vehicles, detecting rip currents, and improving security in our nation's ports, among many other research thrusts. Explore Stevens' research programs to learn more.
Investment in Local Youth
Stevens is home to a number of organizations that benefit local youth and education. The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, recognized by President Obama for excellence in K-12 STEM mentoring, has provided teacher training, classroom support, and hardware, software, and supplies to Hoboken’s public, non-public and charter schools for more than 25 years. CIESE’s activities, which range from the WaterBotics® summer camp to professional development programs for teachers, have impacted more than 250 Hoboken teachers and administrators and thousands of Hoboken students over a quarter century. Also, for many decades, Stevens has provided scholarship funds to support the education of talented Hoboken High School students at Stevens. Since 1992 alone, more than 38 students have received more than $2 million in scholarship dollars from Stevens.
Other youth outreach programs include the Hoboken Junior Police Academy, co-sponsored by Stevens and the Hoboken Police Department, which provides a summer camp experience to middle and high school boys and girls to learn about the importance of problem-solving and discipline within their community.
