Continuing a trend, New Jersey Institute of Technology significantly improved its standing in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2024.

NJIT now finds itself in the top 25% of the more than 1,900 universities that Times Higher Education ranked globally (401-500) — up from the top third last year (601-800). Among U.S. universities, NJIT stands at No. 87, an improvement of 27 places from last year (114).

New Jersey Institute of Technology is well-represented on ROI-NJ’s 2023 list of people of color who are influencers in the state. 

 In a testament to his commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), David E. Jones, chief diversity officer at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been honored as one of the "2023 Top 15 Champions of Diversity" by DiversityGlobal Magazine. This recognition celebrates individuals who not only articulate the importance of DEIB but also actively implement measures to create a more inclusive world within and beyond their organizational spheres.

Students in NJIT’s Center for Pre-College Programs (CPCP) summer offering saw first-hand what a career in STEM looks like thanks to Stryker opening its doors to its medical technology and manufacturing facility.

Stryker showed off its half-million square-foot Mahwah campus and the innovation within developed by its engineers and technologists: new-material implants getting people back on their feet in hours instead of days, additive-manufacturing processes unlocking the full potential for design and its state-of-the art Mako surgical robot.

New Jersey Institute of Technology is the second-highest ranked public university in the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024 list of the Best Colleges in the U.S.

At No. 19 nationally, NJIT is second only to the University of Florida among public universities nationally and to Princeton University among colleges and universities in New Jersey. 

New Jersey Institute of Technology has earned a minority-serving institution (MSI) designation from the U.S. Department of Education. Under the umbrella MSI designation, NJIT has qualified as an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) with more than 20% of undergraduate students identifying as Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI).

Ever since Jason Ogbebor set foot in a chemistry classroom in high school, he knew he was destined to conduct high-level, impactful research. Looking to science legends — Mendeleev, Bohr, Einstein — Ogbebor is realizing his dreams and is on his way to pursue a Ph.D. at MIT.

Among 13 children in a struggling Ivory Coast family, it would have been understandable if Vincent Oria went into business, apprenticed to a tradesman, or dreamed of the soccer pitch. Instead, long before becoming chairman of NJIT's Department of Computer Science, he followed his schoolteacher father into the world of academics, concentrating on physics as he loved the applied mathematics of science.

David E. Jones is just a few months into his role as chief diversity officer at New Jersey Institute of Technology yet already has a visible presence.

Sayyid Ali, a 2017 alumnus of NJIT's Ying Wu College of Computing, recalled a job interview at a software company in New York where the only other Black person he saw was the elevator attendant — and now he's on a mission to prevent that from happening to anyone else.