New Jersey Institute of Technology

The New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public polytechnic university in Newark, New Jersey, founded in 1881 as Newark Technical School. It grew with the industrial city into a STEM research campus in University Heights, beside Rutgers University–Newark. Its mission is that of a technical institute in engineering, computing, architecture and applied science.

Colleges include the Newark College of Engineering, the Ying Wu College of Computing, the College of Science and Liberal Arts, the Hillier College of Architecture and Design, and the Martin Tuchman School of Management. Graduate students concentrate in electrical and computer engineering, computer science, civil and environmental engineering, information systems and architecture. Campus centers work on transportation, materials, smart infrastructure and cybersecurity, using Newark as a field site.

NJIT enrolls about 12,000 students, with several thousand in graduate programs. International students form a large share of the master's and doctoral cohorts, particularly from India, China and the Middle East. Alumni include NASA astronaut Wally Schirra, who studied at the Newark College of Engineering, along with engineers and architects across the New York region.

Graduate degrees include the MS, MArch, MBA and PhD, with coursework plus a thesis or project in many master's tracks and laboratory research for the doctorate. The calendar is a standard U.S. semester year. Research and teaching assistantships support many PhD students; professional master's students more often self-fund. The campus is urban and a short rail ride from Manhattan.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, New Jersey Institute of Technology lists 21 graduate programs across 13 subjects: 15 master's programs and 6 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, business & management and computer science.