96%Outcomes
of the undergraduate Class of 2019 secured jobs or graduate school admissions within six months of graduation.
Success After Stevens
Our strong suit is helping you achieve success, whichever way you define it. Whether that means landing a job offer when you graduate (maybe even multiple job offers before you graduate), getting into your top choice of graduate school, launching your own start-up or changing the world in the non-profit sector, you’ll find few universities go as far as we do to get you there.
A National Leader in Salaries and Satisfaction
We offer some of the highest rankings in the nation for career placement, salary potential and return on investment. What’s our secret? We provide you with exceptional career services much earlier than other universities. You’ll have the opportunity to leave here with more experience on your resume than most college graduates, which also means more familiarity with your chosen field and more confidence that you’re on the right path. Because you don’t just want a wildly successful career — you also want a deeply satisfying one.
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By the Numbers
$76,400Salary
The average starting salary for the Class of 2019
Top 20
For the best 20-year return on investment for graduates, 2020 PayScale College ROI Report.
2nd in Nation
Colleges with the Smallest Gender Gap in Earnings from Graduates, Forbes 2018
11thin Nation
Awarded for "Best Career Placement" from The Princeton Review’s "The Best Value Colleges," 2020
12thin Nation
for the highest mid-career salaries. (2020-21 PayScale College Salary Report)
Top 15
for Internships in The Princeton Review's "The Best Value Colleges," 2020
Top 50
Named in The Princeton Review’s 2017 "Colleges That Create Futures: 50 Schools That Launch Careers By Going Beyond the Classroom."
Top 5
Ranked 5th in Financial Advisor's "10 Colleges That Offer Students Best Bang For The Buck," 2018
#1School
Top school in the state by salary potential as rated by PayScale in 2020.
Experience Award-Winning Career Preparation
No university has a career program quite like ours. From the advisor assigned to you on your first day to the moment you ace your first job interview, you have some of the nation’s best career services…
GET IN THE DOOR
Find out how we bring the best internship opportunities to you.
EXPLORE YOUR OPTIONS
Get an inside look at a career you’re considering through our job shadowing program.
BE IN DEMAND
Alternate semesters between study and full-time work to become the ultimate job candidate.
DELVE IN
Work on a cutting-edge research project as early as the summer after your first year.
ACE THE INTERVIEW
Find out why our interview rooms are booked solid with companies competing for Stevens students.
Your Path to Success Starts on Day One
From the classroom to your career, Stevens cares about your success. We offer an award-winning career center that helps students gain real-world experience through internships, externships and other programs that have resulted in employment offers before graduation or soon after.
Jump-start Your Career Before Graduation
Meet Serena Shah, who will graduate in 2021 with a bachelor's in business and technology. Though she hasn't graduated yet, Serena has already accumulated impressive work experiences that will position her well for a career in business. A summer internship with EY in Madrid had Serena create a blueprint for implementing AI technology in the workplace.
Graduate Worry-Free
Learn what you can expect when your turn comes from these highlights of recent classes.
Secure Your Future
Within six months of graduating, 96% of the Class of 2019 had secured their post-graduate plans.
Pursue Your Passion
80% of Bachelor of Arts graduates in 2019 secured employment or graduate school placement within six months, 7% returned to home country/or were traveling.
Make a Smart Investment
96% of School of Business graduates in 2019 secured employment or were pursuing graduate education.
Why Companies Love to Hire Stevens Students
Employers on Why they Recruit Here
“We don’t really need to train Stevens students. They are so well prepared, they just need a push in the right direction and they’re off and running.”
Eric Meisner, Acquire Media
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Employers on Why they Recruit Here
“Verizon has a long history of remarkable success here at Stevens. From the Class of 2013, we hired over 27 graduates from Stevens.”
Maya Millin, Verizon
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Employers on Why they Recruit Here
“The candidates that we get from Stevens – I hate to use the word – but they’re superior.”
Jack Goldstein, CME
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Pursuing Graduate School
Many of our students continue their education at top graduate schools, pursuing master’s degrees, MBAs, PhDs, law degrees or medical degrees. Recent Stevens graduates are attending highly selective programs at schools like Yale, UCLA, UC-Berkeley and the NYU Stern School of Business. We offer special help to students who want to explore graduate school, including mapping out an action plan for deciding where to apply and taking entrance exams. Learn more about how we prepare you to shine in the competitive graduate school admissions process.
Exploring Entrepreneurship
Stevens alumni have built and led world-class innovative companies like General Motors, Texas Instruments, Becton Dickinson, Verizon, Lockheed Martin, LG and Samsung. We go quite a distance to prepare you for success in the start-up world — from your required freshman course in entrepreneurship, to a new cooperative education option where you develop your own company, to the pitch competition that’s part of our annual Innovation Expo. If you have an idea you want to explore, we’re more than willing to help you run with it.
Reaping a Return on Your Investment
It’s hard to picture life twenty years down the road, but if you’re like other Stevens graduates, you’ll be doing big things. Our consistently stellar national rankings for best return on investment and mid-career salaries show that we excel at setting you on the path toward long-term happiness and an impactful career. And our alumni will back us up on that. We invite you to take a look at what our alumni are doing with their Stevens degrees and see whose footsteps you might follow someday.
What's My Success Story?
Aspiring Physician Credits Strong Curriculum and Supportive Campus Environment for Raising the Bar
“We all know that everyone is going to get a great job or get into a great graduate school after graduation, and that just motivates everyone to do their best.”
Nicole Fosko, Biomedical Engineering ‘18
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Discovering a Career in Green Engineering Through Co-ops
"Stevens students are able to hit the ground running when they enter the workplace. The curriculum is designed to prepare students for a career and prepare them to work and think critically."
Ryan Bertani, Civil Engineering ‘18
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Stevens Graduates are Job Ready From Day One
Repeat employers recruit from Stevens to find proven talent like Ravi and Kevin.
Ravi Shah ’17 and Kevin Wheatley ’17
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Pursuing My Master’s at Juilliard
“I can honestly say that if I hadn’t attended Stevens, I would not be attending Juilliard. In fact, I might not even be a composer at all. My professors were some of the most inspiring teachers I’ve…
Will Stackpole, Music & Technology '12
Read His StoryTurning My Senior Project Into a Funded Start-up
"I wasn’t fully expecting the pace that it would move at. And since we’ve been here, I think we’ve taken advantage of every opportunity to accelerate the product and the business in a way that we’ve…