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Princeton Review Gives NJIT High Marks for Value and Career Placement

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology maintains its national reputation for return on investment and career placement in 2023 rankings from The Princeton Review. Among public schools, The Princeton Review ranked NJIT No. 11 on its list of the Top 20 for Best Career Placement and No. 35 on its list of t...

Newark College of Engineering Reaches a Milestone at 'Salute' Celebration

Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
NJIT’s largest and oldest college invited students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends to join together for NCE’s 25th Salute to Engineering Excellence celebration. The annual event honors the contributions and impact of the NCE community and features the college’s upcoming star students, dedicated ...

2 NJIT Grad Programs Rank Top 100 in US News & World Report

Tuesday, April 25th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology further burnishes its reputation in engineering and computer science in the latest graduate studies rankings from U.S. News & World Report. NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering (NCE) now ranks No. 77 on the publication’s list of the Best Engineering School...

Two NJIT Students Win Prestigious Fellowships to Grow in their Fields of Study

Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Two NJIT undergraduates won prestigious fellowships. Olivia Kolakowski ’24 was awarded the Brooke Owens Fellowship, and Milan Patel ’23 has been selected as an Amgen Scholar at Columbia University.  The Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable youn...

Undergrads Compete in NJIT's First Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Competition

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023
Undergraduates Nora Mahgoub ’25 and Victoria Pirog ’25 are already solving complex ethical dilemmas of today’s engineering world, and doing so on a grand stage, as the first NJIT students to compete at Lockheed Martin’s annual Ethics in Engineering Competition. Mahgoub and Pirog recently joined othe...

Elementary STEM Event Teaches Children About Microcontrollers and More

Monday, March 27th, 2023
Teams of third, fourth and fifth-graders at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Elementary STEM Challenge went high-tech this year, aiming to solve environmental problems in their schools by using the capabilities of Micro Bit microcontrollers. The competition is in its third year, with Randolph's ...

NJIT Names John Pelesko Provost and SVP for Academic Affairs

Monday, March 20th, 2023
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has selected John Pelesko to serve as its next provost and senior vice president for academic affairs after a nationwide search. Pelesko, currently the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Delaware (UD), will start on Aug. 1. Pelesko...

Robotics Club Hosts Tourney, Qualifies for World Champs Again

Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
NJIT's Robotics Club took home gold at their first competition held here in Newark, besting the competition which included Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Seton Hall universities. The victory qualifies Highlander robotics for the World Championships, April 27-29 in Dallas. The club also qualified in 2020 bu...

'Byte Into Hardware' is New Hackathon by Engineering Students, Coming to NJIT this Spring

Monday, February 27th, 2023
A new event on campus, Byte into Hardware, aims to remind us of the joy in exploring hacker culture's physical roots. The hardware hackathon will take place April 1-2 with themes focusing on accessibility and sustainability. Breadboards, microcontrollers and sensors will be everywhere, in contrast t...

Frisbee Golf Robots Will Highlight NJIT Competition on March 4

Friday, January 27th, 2023
The robotics club at New Jersey Institute of Technology is hosting a Vex U competition in March that's open to university teams from around the world. Hosting their own event has been a longtime goal for the current crop of NJIT robotics club members, along with the generation before them. But ...