Rankings and Recognition

Overall

• U.S. News & World Report: No. 76 nationally

• U.S. News & World Report: No. 33 among national “Most Innovative Schools”

• The Princeton Review: Among country’s “Best 390 Colleges”

• 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

• U.S. News & World Report: No. 63 among national “Best Value Colleges”

• Payscale’s College Salary Report: No. 17 among top colleges with highest-paid graduates

• Payscale’s College ROI Report: No. 1 in “Best-value Colleges in New Jersey”

• Payscale’s College ROI Report: No. 18 among “Best-value colleges ranked by ROI” 

• 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 4,500 Colleges by ROI (2022)" No. 19 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

• 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”

• U.S. News & World Report

  • No. 11 in Best Online Master's in Info Tech Programs

  • No. 26 in Best Online Master's in Engineering Programs

  • No. 35 in Best Online Master's in Business Programs (Excluding MBA)

  • No. 60 in Best Online MBA Programs

• The Princeton Review: Among “Best Business Schools”

• The Princeton Review: Among “Best Online MBA Programs”

• 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 

• College Factual

  • 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 Degre 

  • 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

• 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.

• 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
  
  

• Stevens ACES (Accessing Careers in Engineering and Science) program honored with the 2019 Innovation in Education Award by the New Jersey Tech Council

• Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the Power List 2022: Higher Education by ROI NJ Influencers

• Stevens President Nariman Farvardin named to the 2022 NJBiz Education Power 50 list

• 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

• 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.