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Stevens ranks #1 in the nation for "Most Connected Campus"

HOBOKEN, N.J. - Stevens Institute of Technology ranks #1 in the country in The Princeton Review's Top 25 Most Connected Campuses - a just-announced top ranking that acknowledges Stevens' national superiority in wired and wireless technology for students on campus. To identify the colleges on the list, The Princeton Review collated responses from more than 100,000 college students, as well as data from campus administrators. Criteria included the student/computer ratio, wireless access on campus, the breadth of the computer science curriculum, and comments from campus students. For the full "Top 25" list and methodology visit: http://www.forbes.com/campus/.

Supplemental reporting from The Princeton Review's phone interviews was gathered to identify the Top 25 Most Connected Campuses. The Top 25 on the list also include data concerning streaming media, support for handheld computing and support for next-generation computer curricula.

"This new ranking recognizes once again that Stevens is at the forefront of education that integrates the latest information technology and computer science acumen across the curriculum," said Stevens' President, Dr. Harold J. Raveché. "Being on this leading edge means that Stevens graduates are exceptionally well prepared to thrive and flourish in the networked professional world."

Being at the forefront in "connectedness" is not new for Stevens. In 1982, Stevens was the first institution to require all undergraduates to own and use a personal computer. In the mid-1980s, Stevens provided network access from all residence hall rooms to the campus network and the Internet, and in the late 1990s, Stevens completely replaced all networking within its residence halls to support gigabit-speed networking.

Today, Stevens is continuing to expand its network as part of new construction on campus. The university's new Babbio Center for Technology Management, scheduled to open in fall 2004, will add to Stevens' already robust wired and wireless campus network. This new signature headquarters for technology management education, located near Hoboken's waterfront, will be thoroughly networked for both wired and wireless technology, making it a unique state-of-the-art facility for leading-edge education in business and technology management. For more on Stevens' Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management and the Babbio Center, please visit http://howe.stevens.edu/.

In an article at Forbes.com/campus about Stevens' #1 ranking, The Princeton Review notes that: "Stevens has an avant-garde program, called Technogenesis, in which students, faculty and companies work together to develop technology from the birth of an idea all the way to its introduction to market. Students are currently working with Lucent Technologies on a laser designed to improve the transmission of wireless information." Researchers and students in Stevens' Physics and Engineering Physics Department recently have established the first mid-infrared QC-Laser link and achieved the fastest communication link in the mid-infrared spectrum to date. The research is led by Stevens professors Rainer Martini and Ed Whittaker.

Established in 1870, Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science, management and technology management, as well as a baccalaureate in business and technology, and in the humanities and liberal arts. The university, located across the Hudson from New York City, has a total enrollment of about 1,740 undergraduates and 2,600 graduate students. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at http://www.stevens.edu/.