New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey with a degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City.[11] Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors especially Edward Weston,[12] NJIT opened as Newark Technical School in 1885 with 88 students.[a][b] The school grew into a classic engineering college – Newark College of Engineering – and then with the addition of a School of Architecture in 1973, into a polytechnic university that now hosts five colleges and one school.[14] As of fall 2020, the university enrolls about 11,600 students, 2,000 of whom live on campus.[6][15]

One of the nation’s leading public polytechnic universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) prepares students to be leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. If it is Science, Engineering, Technology, Mathematics, Architecture or Design it is NJIT.