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Data Science (Computing Option)
What do Data Science (Computing Option) majors do?
What our students are saying
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Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Covers an array of topics including information retrieval, multimedia systems, open source web design, web mining, web services, middleware, and authentication, as well a variety of media such as text, images, video, and audio — all to produce a rich, rewarding, dynamic and data-driven web experience.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Web Systems Development Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Java programming.
- Information retrieval.
- Web mining
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
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Information Systems Salaries
$70,000
Starting Salary, NJIT Average
$74,000
Mid-Career Salary, National Average
College Factual ranked NJIT the No. 1 Best Computer Information Systems College Nationally.
Career Prospects
Where do Information Systems majors work?
Common Job Titles
- Consulting Analyst
- Logistics Specialist
- Advanced Repair Agent
- Information Technology Resident
Top Employers
- Accenture
- Amazon
- Google Inc.
- PJM Interconnection
- Geek Squad
What our students are saying
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NJIT offers you the opportunity to find a field you love and dive right in without feeling pigeonholed."Yousef Abbasi -
I got the best out of my courses and landed a full-time job after my first year."Pallavi Moulick -
Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."Seif Issa
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
The graduate certificate in User Experience Essentials (UXE) exposes students to the process of usability testing and knowledge transfer between general audiences, technology designers, programmers, project managers, and administration.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the User Experience Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Audience analysis (audience theory and research traditions, audience formation and experience, reception studies, etc.).
- User experience theories and applications (uses and gratifications, media functions versus media use, information-processing theory, etc.).
- Empirical communications research methodologies (content analysis, focus groups, in-depth interviews, thematic analysis, and surveys).
- Ability to draw inferences and make actionable recommendations based on user experience data.
- A research design that is user-centered, process-oriented and motivated by outcomes.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Enables students to dig deep into advanced professional and technical communication and quickly apply their newfound knowledge.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Technical Communication Essentials Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Technical and report writing.
- Usability analysis.
- Ethics.
- Information literacy.
- Elements of visual design (design theories, composition techniques, electronic and print publishing technologies).
- Content management and information architecture focusing on methodologies such as DITA and DocBook (in-demand proprietary software free to students).
- Professional and technical editing.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Provides a comprehensive look at modern techniques and methods employed in the development and life cycle of large software systems, along with hands-on experience in managing database systems as an essential organizational resource. The Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering, Analysis, and Design aims to cover those areas in a compact program.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Software Engineering, Analysis, and Design Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Key software engineering principles, methods, and frameworks, including agile and lean principles, estimation, modeling, design patterns and more.
- Development of large software systems and the integration of multiple systems into a domain-dependent solution.
- The lifetime of a software system, from conception to obsolescence and replacement.
- Various software costing techniques, including COCOMO and ROI.
- Various methods of software development, including Cleanroom and Agile.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
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Information Systems Salaries
$70,000
Starting Salary, NJIT Average
$74,000
Mid-Career Salary, National Average
College Factual ranked NJIT the No. 1 Best Computer Information Systems College Nationally.
Career Prospects
Where do Information Systems majors work?
Common Job Titles
- Consulting Analyst
- Logistics Specialist
- Advanced Repair Agent
- Information Technology Resident
Top Employers
- Accenture
- Amazon
- Google Inc.
- PJM Interconnection
- Geek Squad
What our students are saying
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I got the best out of my courses and landed a full-time job after my first year."Pallavi Moulick
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NJIT offers you the opportunity to find a field you love and dive right in without feeling pigeonholed."Yousef Abbasi
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Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."Seif Issa
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Provides comprehensive instruction in project management, by focusing on cost estimating for capital projects, planning project implementation and controlling progress, and managing construction projects. Taught by instructors with experience in the field and PMP certification. Many students find that this program enhances their work performance and marketability.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Project Management Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Project control methodologies.
- Theories of economic behavior.
- Capital expenditure planning.
- Demand analysis, competition, and monopoly.
- Econometric models of market strategies and competitive action.
- Cost considerations and cash flow forecasting.
- Financial and performance control.
- Contractor organization and management.
- Legal aspects in construction and environmental engineering.
- Legal, ethical and intellectual property issues.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
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Mechanical Engineering Salaries
$64,700
Starting Salary, NJIT Average
$66,433
Mid-Career Salary, National Average
Employment of mechanical engineers is projected to grow 9 percent from 2016 to 2026.
Career Prospects
Where do Mechanical Engineering majors work?
Common Job Titles
- Mechanical Designer
- Product Development Engineer
- Project Engineer
- Quality Assurance Engineer
- Automation Engineer
Top Employers
- Lockheed Martin
- Stryker Orthopaedics
- Honeywell
- Valcor Engineering
- Schneider Electric
What our students are saying
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When I first came to NJIT I enjoyed the Student Activities Council because I wanted to make college fun! NJIT is really a great college. Enjoy your time here. "Sagar Solank -
I credit my NJIT degree and connections with helping me land three job offers within two weeks of graduating."Bodhi Chaudhuri -
NJIT felt like such a community and I loved that. I’ve learned to lead, to communicate and, of course engineering."Paula McCarter
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
Looks at energy technology and management — including protection of power systems and application of computer solutions, particularly for the electric utility industry — to help prepare the future energy and power workforce.
This program will prepare engineers to work in the power and energy industry. Academic programs in energy technology and management are needed to prepare the future workforce for the energy and power industry as more than fifty percent of the workforce in the power industry is retiring during this decade. At the same time, developing new, clean, and more efficient energy resources and technologies is of global significance.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Power Systems Engineering Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Power system steady-state analysis of power system networks.
- Digital computer techniques to solve power system problems.
- Transient performance of power systems (interruption of arcs, re-ignition inertia effects, harmonic oscillations, saturated systems and more).
- Energy accounting control and economic theories for interconnected steam and hydroelectric power systems.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
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Electrical Engineering Salaries
$67,500
Starting Salary, NJIT Average
$72,564
Mid-Career Salary, National Average
Top Ranked Online Master's in Engineering Programs - U.S. News & World Report, 2025
Career Prospects
Where do Electrical Engineering majors work?
Common Job Titles
- Power Systems Engineer
- Telecommunication Engineer
- Computer Network Architect
- Control Systems and Robotics Engineer
- Electronics Engineer
Top Employers
- National Grid
- Dominion Energy
- Exelon Corporation
- PSE&G
- General Electric (GE) Power
What our students are saying
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While my main focus is on my classes, I'm always looking for opportunities outside of them such as traveling to conferences."Olivia Hadlaw -
As a doctoral candidate, NJIT gave me the best opportunity to perform interesting and instructive projects."Abbas Kiani -
Everything is so close! I have everything I want - food, shopping, friends, and New York City. I go into Manhattan every weekend."Cem Erkam
Degree Overview
- Delivery Format: on-campus
- Required Credits: 12
Program Details
This program aims to help the end user and professional understand, design, configure and maintain the widening range of devices that have access to the Internet, from single-board computers and refrigerators to cars and thermostats. Also lays the foundation for securing networks to prevent their being compromised.
What You Will Learn:
Students in the Network Security and Information Assurance Graduate Certificate Program will learn a wide range of leadership and management skills in addition to the following skills:
- Computational methods that provide secure internet communication.
- Network management technology and techniques.
- Emerging network management standards.
- Widely used security applications, schemes and practices on the internet and enterprise networks.
- Information assurance, and network and computer security concepts, applications and standards.
- Audit, control and security issues, requirements and processes in organizational information systems.
- Computer security auditing.
Admissions & curriculum
12 Required Credits
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Information Systems Salaries
$70,000
Starting Salary, NJIT Average
$74,000
Mid-Career Salary, National Average
College Factual ranked NJIT the No. 1 Best Computer Information Systems College Nationally.
Career Prospects
Where do Information Systems majors work?
Common Job Titles
- Consulting Analyst
- Logistics Specialist
- Advanced Repair Agent
- Information Technology Resident
Top Employers
- Accenture
- Amazon
- Google Inc.
- PJM Interconnection
- Geek Squad
What our students are saying
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NJIT offers you the opportunity to find a field you love and dive right in without feeling pigeonholed."Yousef Abbasi
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I got the best out of my courses and landed a full-time job after my first year."Pallavi Moulick
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Getting a degree from a great school like NJIT gave me the opportunity to choose the job I wanted."Seif Issa
