njit history

Study Hall in the 1960s​

Newark College of Engineering - 1944

Newark College of Engineering, 1943

NJIT's first basketball team

1940s Mechanical Engineering Lab

Newark Technical School, established in 1885

It's true that women didn’t flock to technical school, but the first class to enroll as candidates for degrees in engineering did include Shirley Dodman, known to her classmates as "The Coed." The first woman to graduate was Edythe Rabbe, awarded a degree in chemical engineering in 1930.

A laboratory building, later to be called Colton Hall, was added to the campus in 1913

The former Newark Orphan Asylum, now Eberhardt Hall, was purchased and renovated by the college during the lean years of the Depression and World War II.

Newark College of Engineering, 1956