New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned global recognition from the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking for the university’s pursuit of and progress toward targets set forth by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), earning No. 90 globally and No. 2 nationally in two key areas.
New Jersey Institute of Technology is one of the nation’s best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price, according to The Princeton Review, an honor held since 2018. NJIT ranked No. 39 as a Best Value College and No. 10 for Best Career Placement among public colleges and universities.
New students often matriculate at NJIT with a handful of college credits, declaring themselves double majors or participating in joint bachelors-masters programs, but Metuchen's Samuel Carlos is raising the bar, having arrived in 2018 with an astonishing 103 college credits and an associate's degree earned in high school, promptly declaring a double major and then adding a third in 2019 because he didn't want to graduate too soon.
When the COVID-19 pandemic put an indefinite pause to how local bricks-and-mortar businesses serve their communities, an NJIT student and his friends stepped in to help small companies take the concept of shopping local online.
Franklin Tan said his website development business, Tartan Technologies, formed in 2018 and became much busier as small businesses, many of which never even had a website, needed to quickly catch up to the times with online storefronts because regular customers could no longer shop in person.
Applications to study at Ying Wu College of Computing increased by 50% in the last two years.
The college received 2,979 applicants this year which is also an increase of 19% from 2020. Computer science, human-computer interaction and web/information systems also experienced large increases as individual majors.
There were 43% more applications requesting Albert Dorman Honors College status since 2019.
A team of NJIT computer science students will compete among some of the nation's best undergraduate coders in the divisional level of the International Collegiate Programming Contest on April 22, where top finishers in the U.S. Eastern division go to the North American championships, en route to the ultimate prize at the World Finals in Moscow.
Noise has an outsized impact on quality of life for urban residents, but it can be hard to monitor and regulate. Cities, which have limited resources to enforce noise codes, often chase transient sources that disappear before inspectors arrive hours or days later.
Hillier College welcomed new advisory board members Kim Vierheilig ’99 ’00, Robert "Bob" Fritz ’88, and Jordan Hillier Adams.
Each brings new perspectives to the vision and leadership that the advisory board has provided to the college since its inception.
For the second straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology has broken its record for first-year student applications with a total of more than 11,250. All five of NJIT’s academic colleges experienced increases, led by a 21% jump from the Martin Tuchman School of Management, which eclipsed 1,000 applicants for the first time.
New Jersey Institute of Technology has been ranked in three subject areas in the 2021 QS World University Rankings By Subject list, marking the third year in a row NJIT has earned a spot on the global ranking.
