New Jersey Institute of Technology ranks in the top quarter of U.S. universities and colleges in the The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings for 2021.
Ask Katharine Ilyutovich what she will miss most about NJIT after graduating this May and she will promptly tell you “the people.”
“It’s just nice that I can walk in and people will know who I am and just talk to me about whatever,” said the business major, referring to the kinship she has found over the past four years at Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM). “It’s just very comforting.”
For the latter half of 2019, Charles Auriemma was working double-time — spending 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. as an audit analyst for Fidelity Investments in Jersey City, and evenings completing his degree in financial technology at NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management (MTSM), through a full and final semester of both online and on-campus classes. He didn’t get many zzzs.
“Yes, [I was] very tired,” he said with a laugh. But, “I got lots of sleep in January.”
By Krishna Sutariya
Social Security benefits continue to make up a substantial portion of most Americans’ retirement portfolios. With many people depending on this program during their golden years, understanding the associated value and risks of future Social Security payments is of the utmost importance. But just what are the associated risks for recipients based on their health profile and wage history?
As the editor-in-chief of the South Asian Journal of Business Studies, Professor of Management Shanthi Gopalakrishnan (above, far right) was invited to be on an Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) panel titled, “High Quality Publishing,” held at Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli, Jan. 2-4, 2020. INDAM is the premier management conference in India with over 650 delegates in attendance.
LeShannon Wright was stunned. She had just learned that she placed first in the 2019 New Business Model Competition (NBMC), a contest sponsored by the New Jersey Acceleration Center at NJIT — this after making her first pitch for a business concept she had never talked about publicly before.
Jenan Abu-Hakmeh’s dream career is in law and public policy, and the May 2019 graduate has got it all mapped out. An Albert Dorman Honors College alumna who majored in business with concentrations in finance and international business and minored in legal studies, she plans to attend law school, practice in the field for several years and then work perhaps as a lobbyist or in a governmental capacity.
U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 rankings for “Best Online Programs” are out, and NJIT realized gains in four graduate-study areas: business, information technology (IT), engineering and MBA. The rankings are the result of extensive assessments over the past year of more than 1,600 online degree programs nationwide, the highest number evaluated to date.
Written by Shravanthi Budhi
