NJIT Rises to No. 86 Among National Universities in U.S. News Rankings

Monday, September 18th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s rise in national rankings continues, with U.S. News & World Report placing NJIT No. 86 among national universities for 2024 — a jump of 11 rungs from 2023. The latest ranking is indicative of a consistent trend over the past four years — as NJIT climbed from ...

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 t...

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 increase...

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 Universit...

Turkey Earthquake Victim, Ibrahim Aras, Finds Hope in NJIT Business School Scholarship

Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
A natural disaster in Turkey brought transfer student Ibrahim Aras, who is studying financial technology, to NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management. Before the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit on February 6, 2023, all was well with Aras, at the time a computer science major, who graduated from one o...

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 gra...

Industrial Designer Matthew Negron Shares his Path from NJIT to President of Dauphin Americas

Monday, July 24th, 2023
When Matthew Negron ’13, ‘16 started his education at NJIT, he was among the earliest cohorts to join the newly-formed industrial design program at Hillier College of Architecture and Design. Initially starting as an architecture student, his interests shifted and found that the budding industrial ...

U.S. Coast Guard Flotilla Among Three New Ways for Highlanders to Earn Wings

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023
Several new aeronautical opportunities will provide hands-on training for New Jersey Institute of Technology students who look to the sky. Starting this fall, NJIT will establish an official group of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary University Program, known as a flotilla. It will meet at Caldwell Air...

Accounting Expert: Executive Networks Can Lead to Earnings Manipulation

Wednesday, June 21st, 2023
Publicly traded companies manipulate their financial documents more often when their officers and directors have well-connected social circles, Assistant Professor Ming Taylor (Ming Fang) of NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management found, earning her the Best Paper of 2022 award from British Accou...

For NJIT Faculty, Artificial Intelligence is a Learning Opportunity

Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Public artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT are being embraced by faculty across New Jersey Institute of Technology as the latest classroom tool, just like the introductions of videoconferencing, laptops, computer-aided drafting and pocket calculators that came before. AI itself is an es...