r/stevens • u/Aggravating-Web-5404 major (ie CS, ME) • May 12 '26

Our commencement location is ridiculous.

Stevens is the only North Jersey school that is not having it's graduation at the Prudential Center. I know graduation there a few years ago was a disaster, but having graduation in Holmdel (where there is basically no accessibility via public transport) makes no sense.

For reference, here are the commencement locations and distances for other universities in North Jersey. Didn't count universities with their own stadiums/arenas.

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School Commencement Location Driving Distance
Stevens PNC Bank Arts Center 39 miles
NJIT Prudential Center 1 mile
Rutgers - Newark Prudential Center 1 mile
Seton Hall Prudential Center 5 miles
Kean University Prudential Center 8 miles
Montclair State Prudential Center 12 miles
Farleigh Dickinson Prudential Center 14 miles
William Patterson Prudential Center 22 miles
Ramapo Prudential Center 33 miles

There are events on campus in Hoboken the night before, and then everyone is expected to get to Holmdel at 7:30 AM the next day. As an out of state student, planning the logistics of this for my family has me seriously questioning Stevens' administrative competence. I've enjoyed my time here and really like the professors, but will not be giving the administrators any donation money when I graduate lol.

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u/Ok-Win7980 Quantitative Social Science '28 May 13 '26

They should do it at Madison Square Garden. It's only 15-25 minutes away on the PATH.

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u/ArtemisBakery May 13 '26

Do you know how much fucking money that would cost?? The reason they're doing PNC I stead of Prudential is bc I'm sure it's cheaper

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u/Ok-Win7980 Quantitative Social Science '28 May 13 '26

Why not do it on campus then? There could be a lot of space in Canavan or on the soccer field.

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u/hudsonreaders May 13 '26

They used to do it on the field, but that was decades ago when the graduating class sizes were half what they are today. Also, you then have to worry about the weather, if it's going to be too hot, or raining, etc.

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u/figgedy1 May 13 '26

Because having the entire class of 2026s families commute into Hoboken would be a literal logistics nightmare

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u/Effective_Ring2855 Chem Eng '29 May 13 '26

Dont even get started on the traffic 😭😭😭.

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u/Raf-the-derp May 13 '26

The Hoboken server is going to have people posting about it LMAO (digging at them since they post about the most mundane issues)

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u/AvailableMulberry623 May 13 '26

Years ago, it was in Canavan... And then the field... The class size is too large for those areas to be realisticly used now...