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NJIT Tops NJ Public Universities for Early-Career Salaries, Ranks 14 Nationwide

Thursday, September 16th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology ranked No. 1 in New Jersey and 14th nationally among public schools for early-career salaries, with young alumni bringing home just under $125,000 on average against just $7,600 in average debt, according to Forbes 2021 Top Colleges ranking. Statewide, only private...

NJIT Architecture Teams Win Princeton Sukkah Design Contest

Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
Jose Merino’s hands may never be this callused again. He’s leading one of two teams of NJIT architecture students to design and construct a 10x10 wooden hut called a “Sukkah” in rabinic tradition, for a design competition in Princeton later this month called “Sukkah Village 2021.” “I’ve always wante...

NJIT Climbs the Rankings of U.S. News & World Report, A Top 50 Public University

Monday, September 13th, 2021
– No. 103 among National Universities, up 15 spots from last year – NJIT Ranks 46th among public universities – Reputation score up for second year in a row; tied for second nationally in reputation growth over the last four years – Top 100 Best Value School New Jersey Institute of Technology has ri...

NJIT is an International 'Best Maker School' in Inaugural List by Make: and Newsweek

Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
New Jersey Institute of Technology is in rarified air as it has been recognized as one of 200 colleges and universities named a Best Maker School in Higher Education by Make: magazine and Newsweek. Across the university, NJIT houses facilities that encourage engineers, architects, designers, and sci...

Undergraduate Research and Innovation on Display at NJIT Symposium

Wednesday, August 11th, 2021
Countless hours of research and preparation were on display at the Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation (URI) Symposium as 134 students presented 108 projects to a group of peers, NJIT faculty and URI External Advisory Board members. The board selected three top project presentations for the...

Newark Community Museum Unveiled With Help From NJIT

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
The Newark Community Museum will stand at a flashpoint in history – the infamous police precinct where a rebellion began. Before any bricks can be laid, Roger Smith, adjunct professor at the NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design and design director at Gensler, was called on to lead the des...

NJ Brownfields Assistance Center @NJIT: Invaluable Know-How with an Action Plan

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
The NJ Brownfields Assistance Center serves New Jersey communities by providing free training and guidance on how to get brownfields cleaned up for productive redevelopment. Their work includes assistance to community groups developing a strategy for moving local brownfields toward redevelopment, id...

Expertise for High Potential Students and Buildings with Good Bones

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
A new program called “Blueprint” will launch this fall, with the aim to provide career readiness to selective students in the architecture and interior design programs at Hillier College and Kean University. Advisory board member Brenda Nyce -Taylor, who is managing director and principal in Gensle...

Tesla Engineer & NJIT Alum Talks Product Design, Roofing, & His Cybertruck

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021
Tommy Rodrigues ‘16 came to Hillier College’s industrial design program while employed in the roofing industry. Now he is working at Tesla, based in California, in the role of staff mechanical design engineer. He is part of a team of engineers developing Tesla Solar Roof. He took some time out to sh...

1st and 3rd Place IIDA Awards to Second Year Interior Design Students

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Interior design students Shela Picon placed 1st for Night Owl Cafe and Constance Chu for the Sprout: Wellness Center, work they completed in their second year interior design studio with Prof. Goldman. This is the first time the School of Art + Design has had a first place winner from the second yea...