For 3rd Straight Year, NJIT Earns 'Green College' Distinction

For the third straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has made The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges.

Just 522 colleges and universities are featured in the 2024 edition. To qualify, each school had to earn a “green rating” of at least 80 on a scale of 60 to 99. NJIT’s rating was 93. The number is derived from surveys of students and administrators on the policies, practices and programs tied to sustainability at their schools.

For example, does your university offer a sustainability-focused degree? Does it have a car-sharing program? Can its employees work from home? And does it have a public plan for tracking greenhouse gas emissions?

NJIT does all of the above. In fact, it goes further and reports annually — through its Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Office of Sustainability — on how it’s progressing toward the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, including building resilient architecture and promoting inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

At the same time, NJIT is developing a climate action plan, with the goal of being carbon neutral by 2040. All these efforts illustrate a university that’s committed to “making sustainability an institutional learning goal and ensuring that our students graduate as global citizens,” as outlined in its strategic plan.

“We are thinking globally as we act locally,” said Shrestha Prabhakar, NJIT’s assistant director of sustainability. “And in the process, we’re creating a resilient future for the university, the national and the environment.”

This year marks the fifth time that NJIT had made Guide to Green Colleges since its inception in 2010.