Rankings and Recognition
At Stevens, we like to let numbers do the talking. We are a right-sized campus and a community that fosters students’ academic growth, personal development and success.
Overall
U.S. News & World Report: No. 76 nationally
U.S. News & World Report: No. 33 among national “Most Innovative Schools”
The Princeton Review: "Best Value Colleges for 2025"
Forbes: Among “America’s Top Colleges” and “Research Universities”
Washington Monthly: Among best national universities ranked on what they do for the country
Money Magazine's "Best Colleges in America 2024": 4.5/5 stars
Stevens Value
U.S. News & World Report: No. 63 among national “Best Value Colleges”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 9 among "Colleges With the Best Return on Investment"
The Princeton Review: Among the list of 208 “Best Value Colleges”
The Princeton Review: Among the list of 50 “Colleges That Create Futures”
The Princeton Review: No. 12 of “Top 20 Best Career Placement”
Best Value Schools: No. 2 of “Best New Jersey Schools”
Best Value Schools: No. 3 of “Top 25 Computer Science Programs with the Best ROI”
Business Insider: Among top 25 U.S. colleges where students get the most for their money
Forbes’ “Ranking America’s Colleges by Gender Wage Gap”: No. 2 in nation with female grads earning more than male upon graduation
Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce’s "Ranking 4,600 Colleges by ROI (2025)": No. 16 40 years after enrollment
NJ Advance Media: No. 1 of “35 N.J. colleges with the highest-paid grads”
Stacker: No. 12 in the nation among the 100 colleges "whose grads go on to earn the most”
WalletHub: No. 2 in New Jersey for offering top-notch education at the most reasonable prices
Academic Programs
U.S. News & World Report: No. 40 in “Undergraduate Finance”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 29 in “Undergraduate Business Analytics”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 18 in “Undergraduate Business Management Information Systems”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 100 in “Undergraduate Computer Science Programs”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 71 in “Undergraduate Engineering Programs”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 127 in “Undergraduate Business Programs”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 72 in “Best Business Schools”
U.S. News & World Report: No. 83 in “Best Engineering Schools: Graduate”
No. 6 in Best Online Master's in Industrial (Systems) Engineering Programs
No. 19 in Best Online Master's in Information Technology Programs
No. 36 in Best Online Master's in Engineering Programs
No. 42 in Best Online Master's in Business Programs (Excluding MBA)
No. 65 in Best Online MBA Programs
The Princeton Review: Among “Best Business Schools”
The Princeton Review: Among “Best Online MBA Programs”
Fortune: No. 33 in Best Master’s in Data Science
Fortune: No. 27 in Most Affordable Master’s in Data Science
Fortune: No. 88 in Best Business Schools and MBA Programs
Research.com: Among Best Online Master's in Computer Science Degree Programs in New Jersey
Research.com: Among Most Affordable Online Computer Science Degree Programs in New Jersey
GradReports: Ranked on 3 lists of the best colleges by earnings on year out of college:
No. 1 Best Mathematics Master’s Degrees
No. 2 Best Bachelor’s Degrees in New Jersey
No. 15 Best Biomedical Engineering Master’s Degrees
No. 2 out of 30 in Best Bachelor's Degree
No. 1 out of 17 in Best Mathematics Bachelor's Degree
No. 1 out of 17 in Best General Mathematics Bachelor's Degree
No. 1 out of 32 in Best Business, Management & Marketing Bachelor's Degree
No. 3 out of 30 in Best Master's Degree
No. 1 out of 28 in Best Business, Management & Marketing Master's Degree
No. 1 out of 24 in Best General Business Administration and Management Master's Degree
No. 1 out of 7 in Best Mathematics & Statistics Master's Degree
No. 2 out of 23 in Best Doctor's Degree
No. 15 out of 152 in Best Mathematics & Statistics Doctor's Degree
No. 17 out of 130 in Best General Mathematics Doctor's Degree
No. 17 out of 131 in Best Mathematics Doctor's Degree:
Ranked on 12 lists of the best New Jersey colleges by degree program:
Best Degree Programs: No. 5 of “30 Great Small Colleges for STEM Degrees”
University HQ: Online Master's Degree in Data Science - Best of 2023
Athletics
Ranked 18th in the 2024 Learfield Directors’ Cup Division III
Won the 2023 NCAA Division III Men's Volleyball National Championship
10 MAC Conference Championships in the 2022-2023 School Year
Justin Cross '23 named NCAA Division III Men’s Soccer Academic All-American of the Year for the 2022 season
Brett Kaliner, '21, '22 won the 2022 NCAA Division III National Championship
Gina Dello Russo, '20 won the outdoor 400-meter dash at the 2021 NCAA Division III National Championship
Named the 2008 and 2013 Eastern College Athletic Conference Institution of the Year, honoring the ECAC Institution which exemplifies the highest standards of collegiate academics and athletic performance.
Captured the CAANJ Cup, honoring the N.J. DIII institution with the most athletic success, for the 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2017-18 seasons.
Campus Life, Safety & Sustainability
The Princeton Review: No. 17 of "College City Gets High Marks"
The Princeton Review: Among list of “Green Colleges”
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (program of AASHE): Gold rating
Sierra Club: Named among “Cool Schools”
SaveOnEnergy Green Report: No. 33 among top 100 universities
City of Hoboken: Recognized as a “Hoboken Green Business”
U.S. News & World Report: Among “Best Colleges for Veterans”
Active Minds: 2022 Healthy Campus Award
Campus Pride Index: 4 out 5 stars
Leadership and Innovation
Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the NJBIZ 2025 Power 100 List
Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the Power List 2022: Higher Education by ROI NJ Influencers
Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the NJBiz Education Power 50 list
Stevens ACES (Accessing Careers in Engineering and Science) program honored with the 2019 Innovation in Education Award by the New Jersey Tech Council
Stevens received a new patent for mass spectrometry technique
Stevens' Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) awarded $60 million, five-year IDIQ contract from U.S. Department of Defense
Stevens' Science and Technology Studies Program received grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Stevens' Workshop on Nuclear Issues Education received grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York
Faculty and Student Awards
Professors Yu Gan, Raviraj Nataraj, Elnaz Banan Sadeghian and Jie Shen were each awarded 2023 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards for promising early-career research in biomedical imaging, VR-based spinal cord-injury rehabilitation therapies, data density and storage capacity enhancement, and fairness in learning models, respectively.
Professor Dibyendu "Dibs" Sarkar was awarded approximately $1.3 million by the Department of Defense to study methods of removing PFAS "forever chemicals" and other contaminants from soil and water.
Matthew Libera and Hongjun Wang received $1.3 million in support from the NSF for a collaborative project developing infection-resistant scaffolds for engineering human tissues with colleagues at Binghamton University, City College of New York, Syracuse University and the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School.
Undergraduate Krish Nair’s mobile-app startup was selected as one of the world’s 20 best student startups by TechCrunch in 2022.
Professors Jinho Kim, Kathrin Smetana and Annie Zhang were each awarded 2022 NSF CAREER awards for promising early-career research in lung rehabilitation, complex mathematical analysis, and the thermal properties of graphene, respectively.
Professor Jae Chul Kim received a 2022 Early Career Research Program Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for his work to improve battery technologies.
Professor Woo Lee, doctoral student Linh Le and alumnus De Kong M.S. '11 received a collective 2021 Edison Patent Award in Technology Transfer from the from the Research & Development Council of New Jersey for their U.S. patent "Graphene-based Films in Sensor Applications.”
Undergraduate Ben Mirtchouk won the 2021 TCS CodeVita coding challenge, besting more than 136,000 participants from 34 nations in the global competition.