Top honors for Stevens career placement
Steven’s Office of Career Development has been ranked 16th among university career
services and job placement bureaus across the country, according to a survey of students
from 366 top colleges.
The Princeton Review, the test preparation and education services company, surveyed
120,000 students for its multi-part survey, the Princeton Review Best 366 Colleges 2008.
Stevens’ Office of Career Development was the only university career development
center office in the New York metropolitan region to appear in the Top 20 in the category
of “Best Career/Job Placement Services.”
“What is so significant to us about our appearance on the list is that this ranking
represents a vote of confidence in the range of services we provide for our students from
the day they step foot on campus,” says Lynn Insley, Stevens’ director of Career
Development. Upon graduation, 85 percent of students in the Class of 2007 had found jobs
with top firms or had been accepted to competitive graduate and professional school
programs, Insley said. Insley and her staff of four career counselors start working with
students in their freshman year, offering one-on-one career guidance, career planning
workshops, internships, on-campus recruiting, job fairs and other services.
“Our track record is based on not just the number of placements but on the quality of
the employment opportunities our students obtain when they leave Stevens,” Insley
said. “We believe that our students receive outstanding job offers with salaries
above the national average because of the Institute’s stress on experiential
learning: cooperative education and high-quality internships give real-world experience to
our students throughout their college years.
“As a result,” Insley said, “when you graduate from Stevens, you are
equipped with a great-looking resume demonstrating proven industry experience. Recruiters
from the financial, engineering, telecom and pharmaceutical industries are very impressed
by what they see when a Stevens senior or a recent graduate sits down with them for an
interview.”
The Princeton Review survey asks students 80 questions about their school’s academics
and administration, campus life, student body and themselves. This edition’s rankings
are based on surveys of 120,000 students at the 366 schools in the book (not at all
schools in the nation) during the 2006-2007 school year and/or the previous two years. The
well-known book has two-page profiles of each college and rankings lists, and is published
by Random House.
—Stevens News Service |
