WebCampus sets new record with 42% rise in enrollment
Stevens’ online learning unit enrollment nears 5,000, with tuition close to $12 million
HOBOKEN , N.J. ― WebCampus, Stevens Institute of Technology’s online learning unit, has reported a record-breaking rise in enrollment, as nearly 5,000 students have registered for classes, with revenue close to $12 million for the current academic year. This is a 42% increase over last year, and the steepest since WebCampus was launched in 2000. The growth is reflected in enrollments in 17 online master’s degrees and 39 online graduate certificates in science, technology, and management.
“These numbers exceeded our most optimistic projections,” said WebCampus Director Robert Zotti. “Approximately 40% of our online enrollments now originate well beyond commuting distance – particularly in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, California, Florida and Texas.”
Marking its spectacular growth two years ago, WebCampus celebrated its 10,000 th enrollment with campus-wide festivities. It took six years to reach that goal, yet WebCampus has now added another 8,000 students in just two years, a prime example of its recent rapid growth.
Zotti also noted that WebCampus had another great year in awards and recognitions. The unit received its second 21 st Century Award in Online Learning Best Practices prize from the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). WebCampus has also received the top Sloan award from the Sloan Foundation, the Best Online University award.
Since WebCampus first went online, the unit has enrolled more than 18,000 students, with more than $38 million in revenue.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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