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Yusuf Karyagdi is building a business to upcycle leftover material from his father’s stone fabrication company into high-end artwork — and in turn taking first place, plus a $3,000 check, in the student category at NJIT’s 2025 New Business Model Competition.

About 100 people entered the competition, with the final eight in the student and community categories giving live presentations.

Entrepreneurship lessons are being added to introductory engineering courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2026, where students will be motivated to learn front-end product research and digital drafting by designing their own products.

The adjustment is the second recent change to MET-103, Engineering Graphics and Introduction to CAD, which in 2025 gained additional laboratory time for students to practice using the complex software.

Student entrepreneurship education at New Jersey Institute of Technology was recognized by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur, which placed the Newark university at No. 19 for graduate-level study and 33 for undergraduates, out of 300 universities worldwide.

The rankings in their Top Schools for Entrepreneurship 2026 category are substantial jumps from fall 2024, when NJIT ranked at 29 for graduate students and 44 for undergraduates.

Of the 55 million students in Pakistan, only 11,000 manage to study in the United States each year. Muhammad Musa is one of them.

Now a second-year student majoring in financial technology and a member of NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College, Musa has become one of the most engaged students on campus, thriving across academics, leadership and mentorship. 

For NJIT undergrad and men’s swim team captain Zachary Kuzak ’26, the clock starts at 5:30 a.m. each day at the Joel and Diane Bloom Wellness and Events Center pool, always with one mantra: “pressure is a privilege.”

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) hosted the second annual Nexus of Excellence Awards Oct. 8 in the Campus Center Atrium, celebrating the university’s faculty and staff whose achievements exemplify NJIT’s mission and values.

Building on last year’s inaugural ceremony, the 2025 event recognized honorees across categories that reflect NJIT’s Innovation Nexus 2030 Strategic Plan — spanning excellence in teaching, advising, mentoring, research, diversity and community engagement.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is now accepting applicants for a new degree, the Bachelor of Science in Business with Artificial Intelligence (B.S. in Business with AI). It is the first undergraduate degree in New Jersey to blend a comprehensive business curriculum with AI training. 

Scholarships help many students get to college, but for Jonathan Kozlik a scholarship to New Jersey Institute of Technology led him to a technical conference in Florida, where he found inspiration to form his own company testing the security of other people’s artificial intelligence applications.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is the top public university in New Jersey for both value and alumni salary outcomes, according to the newly released Wall Street Journal/College Pulse “2026 Best Colleges” rankings.

NJIT achieved strong placement in categories that highlight return on investment and long-term success:

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with three leading universities in India to advance academic and research collaborations, expand student mobility and strengthen innovation partnerships. All of these agreements were signed in the presence of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy during his trade mission to India.