New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is again among the nation’s top undergraduate institutions in The Princeton Review’s annual college guide, earning inclusion in “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.”
The distinction places NJIT among approximately 14% of the nation’s nearly 2,800 four-year colleges. The Princeton Review selected the institutions based on surveys conducted in 2025–26 of 2,000 college administrators about their schools’ academic offerings.
NJIT’s Princeton Review profile also highlights national and regional recognition for career placement, value, entrepreneurship and game design:
- No. 10, Best Career Placement among Public Schools
- No. 27, Best Value Colleges among Public Schools
- No. 33, Entrepreneurship: Undergraduate
- No. 39, Game Design: Undergraduate
The career placement and best-value rankings reinforce NJIT’s focus on providing students with a technology-centered education that leads to strong professional opportunities. Its regional and national entrepreneurship rankings reflect NJIT’s resources for students developing new ventures, while the game design rankings recognize an interdisciplinary field that combines computing, digital design and storytelling.
The Princeton Review does not rank the 392 colleges from first to last. Instead, it selects institutions for the guide based on academic offerings and publishes separate ranking lists and ratings using student surveys and other data. For the 2027 edition, the company surveyed more than 172,000 students at the featured colleges — approximately 439 per institution — about their academic and campus experiences.
Published Aug. 18 by Penguin Random House, “The Best 392 Colleges” is the 35th edition of The Princeton Review’s flagship college guide. The guide includes institutional profiles covering academics, admission, financial aid and campus life, along with 50 ranking categories informed by student feedback.
