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MONEY Magazine has recently named NJIT as one of the best colleges in America. In building the rankings, MONEY focused on three basic factors that surveys show are the most important to students: quality of education, affordability and alumni outcomes. The rankings analyzed data points, such as graduation rates, tuition charges, family borrowing and alumni earnings (plus 22 additional data points) to find the country’s top values.

The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS), the only honor society to recognize outstanding academic achievement among first- and second-year college students, has designated the chapter at NJIT as a Silver Star Chapter for the 2017-2018 academic year. The acknowledgement distinguishes the chapter among the more than 320 NSCS chapters throughout the country, and stems from its leadership in implementing engaging, student-centered events both on campus and in the community.

KARINA DSOUZA ’20 MAJOR: Biomedical Engineering HOMETOWN: New Milford, N.J. MARY McGUINNESS ’20 MAJOR: Chemistry HOMETOWN: Spring Lake, N.J.

A robotic fleet built to penetrate dark and narrow cave passages, cellular studies into alcohol’s role in hastening neurodegeneration in people with HIV, plants that absorb pernicious pollutants from the air and new methods for eliminating noise from data searches are a few of the research projects that drew students back to campus laboratories this summer.

The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) corporation, in conjunction with Brownfields Listings sponsored Brightfields 2018, a one day, national solar energy development event at the campus of NJIT in late June. Over 150 registered attendees and a robust walk-in crowd gathered on the campus for the dynamic solar development gathering.

The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Corporation, announced today that Balavignesh (Bala) Thirumalainambi, government affairs and finance director, was named a NJBIZ 2018 Forty Under 40 Winner.

Future Ready Schools - New Jersey (FRS-NJ)—New Jersey’s leading initiative to promote digital learning throughout its elementary and secondary public schools — has recently announced that the number of schools participating in the program has tripled statewide in 2018.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 384 Colleges." NJIT also received honors as a top college in the Northeast region.

NJIT welcomed several special guests to campus Aug. 7 for a showcase representing the culmination of the Ras Baraka Coding Institute (BCI) at NJIT, part of the Newark Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The program offers participants work experience with a summer income while teaching them valuable employment skills. More than 3,000 students take part every year, 40 of whom have spent this summer at the university immersed in either coding or architecture (the latter through NJIT’s Newark Beautification Community Gardens Initiative).

Jonathan Ferrer sits in a cushy armchair inside the bustling coffee shop on the NJIT campus. The watch designer is in his element, casually scrolling through his phone while sipping a cup of joe amid the harmony of coffee beans grinding and milk gurgling.