Why NJIT

Why NJIT?

One of the nation’s leading public technological universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) prepares students to be leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21^st century. Founded in 1881, NJIT currently has a student enrollment of more than 8,800 on its 45-acre campus, of which about 3,000 are graduate students.

Money magazine’s "Best College Buys" rated NJIT sixth among the top 10 scientific and technological schools in the United States and among the top 100 best values in higher education.

According to Careers and Colleges magazines, NJIT is among the top 15 schools in the nation offering great schooling at a great price.

NJIT ranks 7^th in the nation in campus diversity, according to the U.S. News and World Report survey.

NJIT ranks first in New Jersey for graduating African American and Hispanic Students, according to the journal Black Issues in Higher Education.

U.S. News and World Report’s "Annual Guide to America’s Best Colleges" ranked NJIT among the top College and Universities.

Princeton Review calls NJIT "an excellent school for academics."

With one of the nation’s most computing intensive campuses, NJIT has been ranked in the top 10 of America’s Most Wired Colleges by Yahoo! Internet Life in every survey since 1998.

Students are offered a unique advantage when seeking full-time employment, through strong cooperative education and internship programs as well as close ties to the leading technological companies.

Students benefit from small classroom sizes and a student-to-faculty ratio of 13 to one.