Abdelrahman Ismail, an MBA student from Egypt specializing in financial technology and entrepreneurship, is the first Fulbright Scholar to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Martin Tuchman School of Management.
A natural disaster in Turkey brought transfer student Ibrahim Aras, who is studying financial technology, to NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management.
Before the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit on February 6, 2023, all was well with Aras, at the time a computer science major, who graduated from one of the best international science high schools in Turkey and fulfilled his dream to attend college in America, where he studied at Drexel University.
Nervana Naguib, in a break from planning her summer travel to Egypt and autumn law school enrollment, said her undergraduate experience at NJIT was exactly what she wanted from a college.
Naguib grew up in Jersey City, attended McNair Academic High School and joined Martin Tuchman School of Management. She graduates with a B.S. in business, dual concentrations in financial technology and innovation/entrepreneurship, plus a minor in legal studies.
Cross River Bank has funded an annual scholarship that will support first-generation, low-income NJIT students majoring in FinTech — the Cross River Opportunity Scholarship.
Through its charitable organization, Foundation@ Cross River, the bank focuses its philanthropy in areas such as education to provide direct support to organizations and students, with the goal of empowering young people to be successful in finance-related fields.
Associate Professor Junmin (Jim) Shi received a prestigious international award in October for his research and teaching on operations research and management science, known as OR/MS in the field, at the INFORMS conference in Indianapolis.
Operations research and management science refers to the application of scientific principles to solve industrial or business problems. Shi is the first faculty member from New Jersey Institute of Technology to receive the INFORMS Prize for Teaching OR/MS Practice, which began in 1998.
ROI-NJ recognized four NJIT leaders, two innovative majors and a new building in its 2022 list of the most influential people and programs in New Jersey higher education.
NJIT fifth-year women's fencer Marina Arrese has been named as a First-Team selection on the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Women's At-Large Team, the organization announced on Wednesday.
Arrese, a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-America and All-District selectee, earned All-America first-team recognition in 2022 and was selected to the second team in 2021.
A new agreement between Hudson County Community College (HCCC) and NJIT will allow for seamless transfer of students into NJIT's Martin Tuchman School of Management.
The articulation agreement, signed Tuesday, July 27 in HCCC's Culinary Conference Center, allows students who earn an Associate of Science in Business Administration degree at HCCC to transfer into NJIT's Bachelor of Science degree programs in Business, Business Online Accelerated Entrepreneurship, and Financial Technology—FinTech.
Logan Heft, a senior business major and NJIT volleyball player, will intern as a business intelligence specialist at Global X ETFs this summer and then head to Brown University in the fall to study for a master's degree in data science.
Mydah Naseem entered New Jersey Institute of Technology as a business major but as a sophomore switched to financial technology. Personal interest and opportunity sparked the shift.
