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Convocation Welcomes Class of 2022, Recognizes Faculty

Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
"I had to acknowledge that this was the defining chapter in my life and I had to write that chapter," said Muhammad Elgammal P.E., PMP, who was the keynote speaker at University Convocation September 12, 2018. In his address, Elgammal recalled his experience as a first-year civil engineering student...

These 4 Honors Freshmen Span the Country

Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
This year’s Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC) freshman class has already set records. The group is 43 percent female, includes 13 New Jersey Medical School students and boasts an average SAT score of 1475. Aside from these fantastic figures, the incoming class is noteworthy for its geography. A s...

Men's Volleyball Alvaro Gimeno Competes at 2018 CEV U20 Volleyball European Championships

Monday, September 10th, 2018
NJIT men's volleyball rising sophomore Alvaro Gimeno competed with the U20 Spain National Team at the 2018 CEV U20 Volleyball European Championships. Alvaro, the reigning Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA) Newcomer of the Year, joined the U20 Spain National Team at the ...

Transforming Newark One Classroom, One Conversation, One Carrot at a Time

Sunday, September 9th, 2018
As towering cranes and forklifts shuttled brightly colored containers from ships to trucks in Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal last week, Cameron Bennett ’22 was also busy inside the port loading human-scale cargo to go back out to sea. Bennett, one of the 1065 freshmen to disperse across...

NJIT Soars 34 Spots in Ranking of Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report

Friday, September 7th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has risen 34 spots — third most in the nation — in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, which identify the top colleges in the nation offering the best education for students. In the rankings, released on September 10, 2018, NJIT ...

NJIT Jumps 43 Spots in Ranking by Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education

Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has improved its standing among U.S. universities and colleges by 43 spots, according to The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education (THE) College Rankings 2019. THE’s latest rankings of more than 1,000 US schools, colleges and universities have NJIT ran...

NJIT Partners With Facebook to Increase Diversity in Tech Workforce

Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
Second-year students taking computer science (CS) classes at NJIT will learn to resize dynamic arrays, balance binary trees and implement hash tables from a software engineer employed by the largest social networking company in the world. In 2016, Facebook launched an Engineer-In-Residence (EIR) pr...

NJIT Offers New Jersey's First Undergraduate Program in Forensic Science

Tuesday, September 4th, 2018
Recently, NJIT announced that this fall it will begin offering New Jersey’s first Bachelor of Science program in forensic science. This first-of-its-kind degree program will fulfill a critically important and unmet need for New Jersey’s students and its forensic science community. The 120-credit de...

NJIT Student-Filmmakers Take to the Screen at 2018 Newark Int'l Film Festival

Friday, August 31st, 2018
This week, from September 6-9, the city of Newark will play stage to one of the premier film festivals in the country — the Newark International Film Festival (NIFF). And this year, NJIT student-filmmakers will be part of the show.  For the first time, films created by NJIT stud...

Women's Soccer Wins Second Straight; Fiona Wright Nets Pair of Goals

Thursday, August 30th, 2018
Freshman Fiona Wright scored a pair of goals and sophomore Katrina Nguyen-DeMary collected two assists in NJIT's 4-1 victory over Fairfield Sunday afternoon on the campus of Kean University East Campus Facility. The win is the second straight for the Highlanders, who move to 2-1-1 on the young seas...