We are a Carnegie R1 Doctoral University (Very High Research Activity) and one of the nation’s leading public polytechnic universities.
With an enrollment of more than 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students, we offer small-campus intimacy with the resources of a major public research university. NJIT is a global leader in such fields as artificial intelligence, databases, big data, data analytics, cybersecurity, programming languages, software engineering, systems, solar research, medical informatics, and bioinformatics, among others. NJIT's research expenditures exceed $166 million annually. NJIT was ranked: Top 100 National University by U.S. News & World Reports; No. 1 public school in New Jersey for net-price value 10 years post graduation by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce; No. 14 “Best College” by Money; and top 2% for alumni mid-career earnings by Payscale.