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Bergen Academies & New Jersey Institute of Technology Have New Joint Curriculum Agreement NEWARK -- Wednesday, May 27, 1988: Students from the Bergen Academies (Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology and the Academy for Engineering and Design Technology) can enter New Jersey Institute of Technology as sophomores, having completed their freshman year of college through a joint Bergen/NJIT curriculum at the Academies.
The program will allow high achieving students to pursue a curriculum while shaving a full year off the cost of earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering.
"This joint program is both an academic and a financial reward to students and their parents in return for the students willingness to pursue a rigorous curriculum," said John Grieco, Superintendent of the Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology and the Academy for Engineering and Design of the Bergen County Technical Schools.
"An understanding of science and technology is no longer a luxury for students who wish to complete their studies prepared to participate in leading edge 20th century technological careers," said Saul K. Fenster, president of NJIT. "Institutions of higher learning must continue to build on these kinds of partnerships if they are to develop the kind of technologically literate pool of students they will need."
"This is a tremendous opportunity for students who want to pursue a career in engineering, which we know is a path to financial and personal success," said Bergen County Executive William P. Schuber. "This new partnership takes science and technological education in Bergen County -- and New Jersey -- to a higher level.''
Students who complete the academies program satisfactorily will be guaranteed admission to NJIT as a sophomore.
NJIT is a public research university enrolling nearly 8,200 bachelor's, master's and doctoral students in 76 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, School of Management, and Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science. Yahoo! Internet Life magazine ranked NJIT the second "most wired" campus in the nation; U.S. News and World Report's 1998 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT among the top 175 universities; and Money Magazine's Best College Buys 1998 rated NJIT as the third best value among U.S. science and technology schools and 59th among the Top 100 U.S. higher education institutions.
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