Stevens Institute of Technology certified as Great Place to Work
Stevens Institute of Technology announces the university has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work®. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Stevens. This year, 75% of employees said Stevens is a great place to work — 18 points higher than the average U.S. company.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation. Great Place to Work Certification™ is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified™.
“Great Place to Work Certification™ isn’t something that comes easily — it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience,” said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. “It’s the only official recognition determined by employees’ real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the best companies to work for in the country.”
“We owe our continued success to Stevens’ dedicated faculty and staff, who earned this incredible recognition with their voices and excellent service,” said Nariman Farvardin, president of Stevens Institute of Technology. “Continuing to strengthen our university culture is a high priority of our new strategic plan, and I am confident we will continue to make progress in the coming years.”
Stevens is a university on the rise. Its community of more than 1,000 faculty and staff work together to create a learning environment where students are inspired and equipped to solve some of our world’s most challenging problems.
“These are exciting times at Stevens. There is an undeniable familial feeling that draws you into the culture here. Everyone is committed to excellence in citizenship and performance, which makes Stevens a Great Place to Work®,” noted Sheraine Gilliam, vice president and chief human resources officer at Stevens Institute of Technology. “I am excited to work with this community and build on the momentum, focus on areas of opportunity and continue to let the world know just how amazing Stevens is.”
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology is a premier, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Since its founding in 1870, technological innovation and entrepreneurship have been the hallmarks of Stevens’ education and research. Within the university’s three schools and one college, Stevens prepares its more than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students for an increasingly complex and technology-centric world. Our exceptional students collaborate closely with world-class faculty in an interdisciplinary, student-centric, entrepreneurial environment, readying them to fuel the innovation economy. Academic and research programs spanning finance, computing, engineering and the arts expand the frontiers of science and leverage technology to confront the most challenging problems of our time. Stevens is consistently ranked among the nation’s leaders in ROI and career services and is in the top 1% nationally of colleges with the highest-paid graduates.