Seton Hall University students can be wireless just about wherever they want, and they make full use of their position at the forefront of the college technology curve. Sophomore Ben Canning said he has never had a poor connection in his three semesters at the school. “I get wireless on the green, in my classrooms, in my dorm room,” he said. “Lots of other schools don’t have those types of advantages.”
According to a recent report published by U.S News & World Report, SHU was ranked as the 15th most wired campus in the country.
The rankings were calculated by a student-to-computer ratio. According to the report, last year 1,700 undergraduate programs and 1,280 schools submitted data on their total student populations and number of computers on campus. From this census U.S News & World Report determined that, on average, there are roughly seven students per computer on college campuses nationwide making the national ratio .14.
Seton Hall’s student-to-computer ratio is .83 meaning that nearly every student at Seton Hall has a computer. “The list is not about the most wired campuses, it’s the most computerized campuses,” said Stephen Landry, Chief Information Officer of the school’s IT Services. “I’m not surprised we made the list since all full-time undergraduates are given computers.”
A small fraction of Seton Hall’s graduate programs do not offer computer programs which is why the ratio falls just below 100%.
According to the school’s technology department, the entire campus is wireless. Directional wireless routers even provide wi-fi to a handful of off-campus offices on Centre Street, Turell Ave., and Ward Pl.
Seton Hall has been systematically upgrading its wireless network and hopes the project will be done by the summer. The new wireless system will be five times faster than the current and will save the school $20,000 a year. Also approaching in this summer, AT&T is installing a cell antenna on the campus to provide 3G networking to Seton Hall.
“It’s not just computers, we want to make sure we get good wireless service overall,” said Landry.
.001% academic work, .05% facebook, 99.95% porn.
This would be a more resonant item if Seton Hall were simply a better school. As it stands, however, who cares that it’s a “leader” in the wireless campus world?
Perhaps, too, recruitment of basketball players (and hoops seems to be the only real thing Seton Hall has going for it in terms of attracting national attention) less familiar with appearances on the police blotter might help.
Ah, but every full-time undergrad has a computer!
RoC & Cathar….and how are your Alma Maters fairing? Columbia the gem of the Real estate market? RoC, what Ivy did you attend?
No offense to Cathar (or anyone else who went to Columbia) but recent events there regarding a Purple Heart recipient makes me glad I am NOT currently enrolled there.
ROC and Cathar,
Seton Hall happens to be a fine university. Your tone is so condescending. Didn’t your mothers ever tell you that if you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all? Oh, I guess that just middle class manners.