As the Stevens class of 2018 has left their undergraduate years behind in pursuit of furthering their education, careers, and lives, the specifics of the activities of these recent graduates is especially significant to Stevens. Since Stevens has such costly tuition, the return on investment of a Stevens degree is heavily emphasized to offset the intimidating price tag. According to PayScale, Stevens is within the top 20 schools for return on investment, placing ahead of eminent universities such as Princeton, Harvard, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
As a technology school, Stevens has highlighted the substantial salaries their graduates may earn soon after graduation. For graduates with a Bachelor of Engineering, the overall lowest accepted salary was $40,000 within Biomedical Engineering, while the highest accepted salary was $120,000 within Mechanical Engineering. The most common industries engineering majors entered were primarily manufacturing, engineering services, and construction, and the average salary between all engineering disciplines was $67,300. Meanwhile, for those receiving a Bachelor of Science (encompassing a wide variety of majors consisting of pure sciences, computer science, and business), the lowest accepted salary was $47,000 in Business and Technology while the highest accepted salary was $125,000 in Computer Science/Cybersecurity.
The top employers that hired from the class of 2018 included Ernst & Young, Google, JPMorgan Chase, L’Oreal USA, Merck, Prudential, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The main industries that the class of 2018 as a whole entered were manufacturing (18%), finance (17%), and engineering services (11%). Other assorted minority industries include government, construction, aerospace/defense, pharmaceuticals, and retail. Additionally, students from the class of 2018 are participating in graduate programs at highly competitive schools including electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and Cornell University, computer science at McGill University and Johns Hopkins, and medicine at NYU School of Medicine and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Overall, 96% of the graduates had their post graduation outcomes finalized, whether it be a job, graduate school, returning to their home countries, or even joining the military. Out of those pursuing advanced degrees, 85% of the class of 2018 are pursuing graduate school, while the remaining percentages are pursuing medical, dental, and law school. As Stevens is ranked sixth in the category of Engineering Schools by Salary Potential by PayScale and ninth for Best Career Placement by Princeton Review, these recent statistics about the class of 2018 offer an optimistic glimpse into the future for current Stevens students.
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