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Washington Monthly Ranking Reflects NJIT Values of Social Mobility, Service

Monday, September 11th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology rose 13 spots to no. 88 among national universities in a ranking based on overall value, service and social mobility, as determined by the non-profit Washington Monthly magazine. The publication’s editors emphasized that such categories are important alternatives ...

Aspiring STEM Students Get Immersive Experience Through NJIT-Stryker Career Day

Thursday, September 7th, 2023
Students in NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) summer offering saw first-hand what a career in STEM looks like thanks to Stryker opening its doors to its medical technology and manufacturing facility. Stryker showed off its half-million square-foot Mahwah campus and the innovation within...

As Classes Begin, Meet 10 Highlanders Energizing Campus

Thursday, September 7th, 2023
NJIT welcomed its Class of 2027 during this year’s University Convocation, where first-year students from all schools were in attendance. The new academic year has kicked off with a record number of students enrolled. Helping to fuel the new high water mark are 1,805 first-year students— an increas...

Wall Street Journal/College Pulse Ranks NJIT No. 2 Public University in the US

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S. At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton Universi...

NJIT Earns National Distinction for 'Best Value' From Niche

Thursday, August 31st, 2023
Economic mobility was a new factor in Niche ranking New Jersey Institute of Technology No. 45 among all U.S. institutions for “Best Value,” reaffirming the university’s return on investment to its students and alumni. NJIT earned the No. 1 spot for “Best Value” among New Jersey public institutions. ...

Army Supports Summer Interns, Designing New Robots at NJIT Research Center

Thursday, August 31st, 2023
A little-known R&D facility, operated by NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute with the U.S. Army Picatinny Arsenal for its primary client, is beginning to thrive one year after moving off-campus. The facility is called COMET — Collaborative Operationalized Manufacturing Engineering and Traini...

Harvesting the Toxic Blooms of Summer

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023
*"Harvesting the Toxic Blooms of Summer" is part of NJIT's 2023 Research Magazine* Amid summer’s cornucopia, there is one proliferation that is universally dreaded: the toxic algae blooms that float on lakes and streams, killing fish, gobbling oxygen from the water and chasing away swimmers. C...

NJIT Showcases the Most Impactful Research and Innovation from Students

Monday, August 21st, 2023
Stuti Mohan, a senior biomedical engineering student, was the winner of the top Dr. James F. Stevenson Innovation Award at the 2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium at NJIT. Her project sought to identify a non-invasive yet precise method to diagnose the tapping foot of ...

Exoskeletons and Scientific Method on Display at NJIT High School Research Event

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
Unique projects in fields such as computing, healthcare and social media stood out at New Jersey Institute of Technology's High School Summer Research Internship program this year. Thanushri Serweswaran, a rising senior at Edison's J.P. Stevens high school, won first place for her work in creating ...

NJIT's New Provost on His Goals, Approach and Why He Pops into Classrooms

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
As the new provost of New Jersey Institute of Technology, John Pelesko brings decades of experience as a professor, department chair, associate dean and most recently dean at the University of Delaware, where he had spent 21 years. Pelesko also has the benefit of knowing NJIT firsthand: he was a gr...