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NJIT's Fall Career Fair Becomes a Fully Online Experience

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
The handshakes will be virtual at this fall’s career fair at NJIT. In fact, the entire fair will take place online via Handshake, the career networking platform that the university uses to match employers with students seeking jobs, internships and co-operative education opportunities.  More ...

At Convocation, NJIT Alum Asks First-Year Students, 'Will You Be a Helper?'

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020
Quoting Fred Rogers and poet Audre Lorde, NJIT alumna Gabrielle Rejouis urged members of the Class of 2024 to be helpers and foster communities during the university’s annual convocation, which was held online on Wed., Sep. 9, 2020.   “You all have a contribution to make,” said Rejouis ‘15, an ...

Computing Student Wins Fulbright Award for Security Research

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
Matthew Cherrey never traveled overseas — no high school trip to Europe, no semester abroad as an undergrad, no spring breaks in exotic, far away locales — but he always wanted to do so, particularly to Germany where his family has roots. Now he's getting an opportunity, representing NJIT next year ...

WELCOME BACK: As Students Return for the Fall, Campus Vibrancy Follows

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
As students converged on NJIT for the first day of the fall semester, they acknowledged the changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, chief among them, of course, mask-wearing. Nevertheless, they relished the chance to resume classes and reconnect with friends. “It feels different but I appreciate ...

WATCH NOW: Virtual Convocation Welcoming the Class of 2024

Monday, August 31st, 2020
Virtual University Convocation Program  WHAT: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will welcome the Class of 2024 during the Convocation ceremony. Additionally, the university will recognize and award faculty and staff members who have excelled as teachers, scholars and researchers. WH...

NJIT Featured in The Princeton Review's 'Best 386 Colleges' Guide for 2021

Thursday, August 20th, 2020
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has been named a top college according to The Princeton Review in the newest edition of its college guide, "The Best 386 Colleges," a designation only about 14% of America’s 2,800 four-year colleges have earned. NJIT also received honors as a top college in ...

NJIT Student Senate Makes Historic, Morale-Boosting Gift to the Highlander Student Emergency Fund

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020
Tulika Das, a biomedical engineer who aspires to discover new treatments for traumatic brain injury, confronted her own health care conundrum this summer just as she was making the leap from master’s to doctoral student: She lost her job in the pandemic-driven shutdown, landed in the hospital after ...

Employers Touted for Student Engagement, Recruitment and Hiring

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
More than 20 employers have been recognized by NJIT’s Career Development Services (CDS) as the university’s top recruitment partners, based on their 2019 hiring numbers. The honors mark the seventh consecutive year that CDS has paid tribute to employers for their engagement with and recruitment and ...

Honors Student Is the First at NJIT to Receive Prestigious Fellowship

Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Donald “Will” Andrews, NJIT’s first-ever recipient of the Humanity in Action Fellowship, attributes his selection for the distinguished summertime program to his choice of study at the university: industrial engineering. “There probably weren’t that many engineers that applied … so that made my app...

At NJIT's 104th Commencement, Class of 2020 Urged to Make an Impact

Friday, June 12th, 2020
“It is an unusual graduation, but what is extraordinary always is the work of this class,” said U.S. Sen. Cory Booker HON ’09, who began NJIT’s 104th Commencement with a pre-ceremony heartfelt greeting thanking the university’s 2020 graduates for their grit, hard work, sacrifice and struggle, and fo...