The Office of Residence Life is not affiliated with any Off-Campus housing, however, we provide resources for students to assist in their search.  The student is to contact the landlord directly for any questions related to the rental. 

Student Information

Helpful Tips

• For information regarding the New Jersey Transit (Bus & Rail).
• NJIT Shuttle Bus Schedule.
• Explore residency area in street view by Google Map.
• Read the Off-Campus Housing Newsletter for the most up-to-date tips and tricks for finding off-campus housing.
• Search the Star-Ledger and other local newspapers.

Other Resources

Tenants

• NJ Tenants Rights

Apartment Searching

• Apartment Advisor
• OffCampusNetwork.com
• MyApartmentMap
• Houses for Rent
• College Rentals
• Rentbits
• rentcafe.com
• apartmentlist.com
• RentMatch
• Padmapper
• zillow.com/newark-nj/rent/
• RentHop
• trulia.com/for_rent/Newark,NJ/map_v
• abodo.com

Each room is air-conditioned, fully-furnished and has high-speed internet access. Additionally, each hall has lounges, study areas, recreational space, laundry room and vending machines.

These residence halls offer the advantages of on-campus living - proximity to classrooms, dining halls, the gym, the library, your friends. Living on campus offers a host of other opportunities for students: easy access to New York City (20 minutes by train), NJPAC, The Newark Museum, Rutgers University-Newark and the chance for you to be independent, learning to live on your own and make decisions.

Our residential community celebrates and promotes diversity, fosters respect and leadership skills, and facilitates a wide variety of experiences and activities that support the development of well-rounded individuals.

More and more, NJIT students are choosing to live on campus in one of our four residence halls -more than 2,000 students this year, including about half of the first-year class.



Students like the convenience of campus living:  access to classes, the library, computer labs, activities, recreational centers, study groups and faculty.  Living on-campus offers a host of other opportunities for students: easy access to New York City (20 minutes by train), New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), Newark Museum, adjacent colleges (Rutgers-Newark, and Essex County College); and the chance for you to be independent, living on your own and making decisions.

NJIT offers you many choices both as a commuter and a resident student, including choice meal plans and dining options.

NJIT is home to hundreds of student-run clubs and organizations covering a wide variety of personal and professional interests. Each gives you the chance to become involved in campus life and connect with students who have similar interests. Whether you want to save the environment, explore your creative side, run for student government, or join a fraternity or sorority, you'll find many options at NJIT.   There is a group for every interest–educational, multicultural, artistic, pre-professional, political, athletic, religious, service-oriented and more.

Get Involved!

Being a member of a student organization can be an important factor in the success of your Highlander Experience at NJIT. As a science, technology and design university, academic learning is the primary mission of NJIT, but the extracurricular activities will help you learn and grow beyond the walls of the classroom into a well-rounded global citizen with hands-on training to prepare you for real-world experiences. Visit the Office of Student Life to learn more about all of the opportunities NJIT students have.

Get Engaged! 

NJIT student organizations or programs provide you opportunities for fellowship, leadership, service, recreation, and meaningful interaction with faculty, staff, and students that can last a lifetime.

Get Connected! 

Your friends, classmates and the campus community can help you transform your Highlander Experiences into a place you can call home. With over 55,000 NJIT Alumni worldwide and many NJIT professional staff, getting involved and connected can help you with on-campus jobs, internships, co-ops and a potential job in the future!

Join a Student Organization and Check-Out Campus Events!

All of NJIT's recognized student organizations, as well as many departments and offices, can be found in our online student engagement platform, Highlander Hub (you will be required to login through Pipeline).  You can browse campus-wide events, see all of our student organizations, and join by simply clicking a button!  Check-out all ofd NJIT's student organizations here.

We are committed to fostering opportunities for our students to share their skills, talents, creativity and enthusiasm through service.

Our students have become an invaluable resource of both technical and nontechnical help for local and regional agencies. We link students, alumni, faculty and staff directly to community service activities with nonprofit organizations throughout the State of New Jersey.

You will have access to a database of over 26,000 available jobs as well as the support you need to build your resume, connect with employers and prepare for interviews.

Internships

Provide a learning experience that may or may not be related to your major and may vary in length. They most often coincide with a semester or the summer. Internship assignments may be paid, unpaid, and college credit may or may not be given. There is usually no formal faculty involvement in an internship as there is in a co-op. However, student interns may choose to consult a faculty member for advice and perspective on the work assignment.  Students who are successful in obtaining an internship are encouraged to enter the employment data into Handshake.  Some internships may be eligible for conversion to co-op status.  Please check with your Career Advisor to explore this option.

Cooperative Education

Provides many unique opportunities.  You can:

• Determine if the current major is a good match for your interests, skills, and values
• Test different work environments and management styles within a major
• Make the connection between academics learned in the classroom and its application in the workplace
• Earn academic credit relevant to your major course of study
• Help defray the costs of personal or educational expenses through earning a good salary
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge technology and research in addition to what is available at NJIT
• Develop professional and communication skills in a real-world environment
• Begin a network of professional contacts among colleagues and supervisors
• Improve interviewing skills for future positions by becoming familiar with an employer’s expectations
• Increase the likelihood of future full-time employment with your current co-op employer through exemplary performance
• Position yourself for a higher starting salary or more advanced position as a full-time employee as a result of your work experience
• Meet employers’ expectations that prospective employees obtained professional work experience while a student

Funded by external and internal sources, the research programs at NJIT are designed to help students develop the vision to contend with global challenges. 

NJIT encourages interdisciplinary collaborative research and innovative programs with partnerships internally, as well as externally from industry and business resources that address the needs and challenges of the global market.

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NJIT offers students the ability to develop these qualities through the study abroad program.  In conjunction with their studies, studying abroad offers you the ability to develop cross-cultural communication skills and sharpens your fluency in a second language by immersing you in another culture.

Learn more about study abroad opportunities

NJIT offers graduate studies programs in the Top 10 highest paying occupations that include engineering, business and computing specialties, physics and physician assistant. Our graduate studies staff can guide you to select the type of program based upon your career aspirations.

Whether your goal is career advancement, research, doctoral studies or learning about assistantships, fellowships or scholarships, our graduate studies staff will support your aspirations. We offer flexibility in graduate study online, hybrid or on-campus. We also offer graduate certificates to sharpen your skills or get you started on pursuing an advanced degree.

We are a community of modest size but with a major impact on technological graduate education, ranking highly in diversity, research activity, and the 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.

Visit the Office of Graduate Studies.