Graduate Studies

Office of Graduate Studies

Welcome to the Office of Graduate Studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). We provide assistance to graduate students in academic matters, approve thesis and dissertation formats, and offer information about the availability of university-level assistantships, fellowships, and scholarships.

For newly admitted and entering graduate students, we are the best source of information about any aspect of graduate study at NJIT. If you are not sure who to ask or where to go, try us first.

NJIT has many unique characteristics that are attractive to students from New Jersey, the United States, and from around the world.  We offer a variety of options for students to pursue programs at the Master’s and Doctoral level.  All our programs provide flexibility and choice of full-time or part-time study.

NJIT is committed to diversity among our students, faculty, and staff and to service to the State of New Jersey.  Our research focuses on cutting-edge technologies and their applications. The exciting opportunities for student research at NJIT exist in the graduate degree granting departments in five colleges.

We are a community of modest size but with a major impact on technological graduate education, ranking highly in diversity, research activity, and number of masters and doctoral degrees. We are conveniently located near New York City in the busiest transportation hub in the United States.  We are the only public technological university in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area and have many cooperative arrangements with other universities in the region.

Read About Some of Our Graduate Students at NJIT

November 11, 2010
A group of doctoral students is researching ways to create better drugs, as well as how to improve the manufacture of them. Their particle engineering research, some of which is published in... read more!
March 12, 2010
Maria Plummer grew up in St. Lucia, a Caribbean Island known for its natural beauty. As a girl, Maria and her friends spent time on the beach, playing cricket. But life on the island was not all... read more!
May 13, 2009
Ashish Borgaonkar was recently named the Outstanding Graduate Student of the year. Each year, the Newark College of Engineering’s (NCE) gives that award to a graduate student who has... read more!