NEWARK, April 22--New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is New Jersey’s public technological research university. NJIT enrolled more than 8,800 students in 2001-2002 and enrollments are continuing to increase. The university awards approximately 1,800 degrees annually from the baccalaureate through the Ph.D. in an array of engineering and technology disciplines, computer and information science, architecture, management, applied sciences, mathematics and biotechnology. NJIT offers Ph.D. programs in 18 professional areas, master’s programs in 47 specialties, and 35 baccalaureate degree programs, conducts research with important commercial and public policy applications, and performs a broad spectrum of economic development and public service activities.

One of the most computing-intensive campuses in America, NJIT has ranked among the top ten of “America’s Most Wired Universities” for five consecutive years. The university contributes significantly to New Jersey’s economy and economic development. NJIT’s students perform 10,000 hours of community service annually, and the university serves more than 4,500 elementary and secondary school students and teachers annually through an array of pre-college programs.

Academic Units

NJIT owes its origins to a predecessor institution, Newark Technical School, founded in 1881. Today, the university has six schools:

• Newark College of Engineering (1919)
• New Jersey School of Architecture (1973)
• College of Science and Liberal Arts (1982)
• School of Management (1988)
• Albert Dorman Honors College (1993)
• College of Computing Sciences (2001)

From the outset of its history, NJIT has provided government, industry, and the larger community with a technologically educated workforce. Today’s emphasis on graduate studies and research builds upon the fine undergraduate programs that have distinguished the institution since its earliest days. Currently, about one-third of NJIT’s students are enrolled in master’s and doctoral programs.

Research Programs

NJIT’s evolution as a significant research university has been achieved through an aggressive faculty recruitment plan matched by an extensive building effort that doubled the size of the main campus over the past decade and added major research facilities for environmental engineering and science, advanced manufacturing, and microelectronics. Annual research expenditures are now approximately $50 million. The strong applications orientation of the university’s research program has allowed NJIT to respond to state, federal, and industrial initiatives, to help address pressing public policy issues, and stimulate economic growth.

Research activities, often carried out by interdisciplinary teams of investigators, are focused especially on applied life sciences, materials science and nanotechnology, information technologies, environmental engineering and science, architecture and building science, and transportation. Major funding for instructional and research programs is obtained from leading corporations, foundations and government agencies including the National Science Foundation, the U.S Department of Defense, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and many others.

NJIT’s 45-acre, computing-intensive, residential campus is located in the University Heights section of Newark, less than 10 miles from New York City and Newark International Airport. It is easily reached by interstate highways and public transportation.