Portfolio Submission

We believe in giving prospective students the best opportunities to showcase their talents and skills. For this reason, we strongly encourage applicants to our Music & Technology and Visual Arts & Technology programs to submit a portfolio.

All portfolio materials must be uploaded on your applicant portal after submitting your application. Direct submissions of electronic media outside of the portal cannot be reviewed. See below for details about the portfolio requirements. For specific questions about the portfolio, please contact [email protected]. 

For Music & Technology applicants, the portfolio should include the following:

1. Three examples of your creative work that best represent your strengths and skills (Required)

• You may submit a musical composition, sound design or something else you have created that demonstrates creative technological implementation within the sphere of music and music technology.

• Please include descriptions of the work you submit and your individual contributions to its creation.

• While the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences encourages students to use new technologies at all stages of their creative work, use of AI tools in the creation of portfolio projects must be clearly disclosed.

2. Music & Technology Supplemental Questions (Required)

• You may submit your responses to these questions through the “Supplemental Questions” form available on your application portal.

For more information and frequently asked questions about the portfolio process, please visit the Music & Technology FAQ page.

For Visual Arts & Technology applicants, the portfolio must include the following:

1. Five examples of your creative work that best represent your strengths and skills (Required)

• You may submit drawings, videos and animation, graphic design, photography or any media.

• Please include descriptions of the work you submit.

• While the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences encourages students to use new technologies at all stages of their creative work, use of AI tools in the creation of portfolio projects must be clearly disclosed.

2. Visual Arts & Technology Supplemental Questions (Required)

• You may submit your responses to these questions through the “Supplemental Questions” form available on your application portal.

For more information and frequently asked questions about the portfolio process, please visit the Visual Arts & Technology FAQ page.

The Visual Arts portfolio is about showing promise, but we don’t assume students have experience with any particular tool or medium. If you haven’t used computers for making art, feel free to submit digital images of your paintings, drawings and traditional media. Good documentation is important! For analog media, take the best quality photos you can (borrow a good camera if possible). If you don’t have access to studio lighting, shoot your images outside on a cloudy day for good, even light. Choose your best work! We only want to see work you are really proud of, not everything you’ve made. If that means not showing a certain medium or style, that’s okay. We’d rather see what makes you stand out.

For iSTEM@Stevens applicants, the portfolio should include the following:

• A resume detailing your education and experience

• A list of products, patents, apps, research, etc. that you have created or worked on

• Examples of completed work, such as:

  • Code for a web portal and/or app that solves a real problem

  • Description of an innovative project where you might attempt to file a patent

  • Description of a business start-up (even if it failed)

The portfolio should be uploaded the portal and may include:

• Web-links or App Store links to products

• GitHub pages for source code

• YouTube video links of product demos if hardware is involved

Office of Undergraduate Admissions

For questions about the application process, please feel free to contact us. Our admissions counselors and staff are here to assist you.

Ruesterholz Admissions Center
1 Castle Point Terrace
Hoboken, NJ 07030

p. 201.216.5194
e. [email protected]
f. 201.216.8348