Degree Overview

  • Delivery Format: on-campus
  • Required Credits: 30

Program Details

Our program’s educational objectives are reflected in the achievements of our recent alumni.

  • Research and Practice: Alumni will successfully engage in research, practice, or both, related to critical infrastructure systems within the industry, government and private practice, where they will work toward sustainable solutions. Alumni will be able to organize, analyze, manage, restore, upgrade and secure the nation’s infrastructure across its multiple inter-dependent and complex sectors.
  • Professional Growth: Alumni will advance their skills by embracing innovation, professional growth and development activities such as research and doctoral study in engineering, professional registration, and continuing education.
  • Service: Alumni will perform service to society and the engineering profession through membership and participation in professional societies, government, educational institutions, civic organizations and humanitarian endeavors.

What You Will Learn:

Graduates of the program will be able to:

  • Specify or design and experiment to meet a need, conduct experiments and analyze and explain the resulting data.
  • Identify, formulate and solve complex problems by selecting and applying appropriate tools and techniques.
  • Synthesize advanced technical knowledge in civil systems, lifecycle planning, asset management, program management, inter-dependent engineered systems, information systems, architecture, and management.

Admissions & curriculum

30 Required Credits
Course listing and prerequisites
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Critical Infrastructure Systems Salaries

$47,407

Starting Salary, NJIT Average

$67,000

Mid-Career Salary, National Average

Teaches students the skills they need to repair, renew and manage America's evolving infrastructure.

Career Prospects

Where do Critical Infrastructure Systems majors work?

Common Job Titles
  • Infrastructure Project Manager
  • Asset Manager
  • Infrastructure and Community Resilience Manager
  • Civil Engineer
  • Utility Systems Engineer
Top Employers
  • AECOM
  • Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
  • WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
  • PSE&G
  • The Port Authority of NY & NJ
What our students are saying
  • Hilsson Angeles
    NJIT was my dream school."
    Hilsson Angeles
  • Seif Issa
    Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."
    Seif Issa
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