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Entrepreneurship Lessons Coming to Introductory Engineering Courses

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Entrepreneurship lessons are being added to introductory engineering courses at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2026, where students will be motivated to learn front-end product research and digital drafting by designing their own products. The adjustment is the second recent change to MET-103...

NJIT Reaches Top 20 Internationally in Princeton Review Entrepreneurship Ranking, No. 1 in NJ

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025
Student entrepreneurship education at New Jersey Institute of Technology was recognized by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur, which placed the Newark university at No. 19 for graduate-level study and 33 for undergraduates, out of 300 universities worldwide. The rankings in their Top Schools for ...

NJIT and NJII Launch PureTrace Labs to Commercialize PFAS Detection Technology

Thursday, October 30th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) today announced the launch of PureTrace Labs, a startup created to bring NJIT-developed technology for rapid detection of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to market. The company marks the first officia...

Jonathan Kozlik, NJIT Student Entrepreneur, Makes the Most of Scholarship

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
Scholarships help many students get to college, but for Jonathan Kozlik a scholarship to New Jersey Institute of Technology led him to a technical conference in Florida, where he found inspiration to form his own company testing the security of other people’s artificial intelligence applications. Ko...

Business School Students Win NJBIA Women's Leadership Awards

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025
Melissa De Cunto and Nalan Kus, both seniors in NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management, are recipients of this year's New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s Rising Star Award. “NJBIA’s Rising Star Awards honor students who have demonstrated a passion for their career path, academi...

NJIT: Premier Polytechnic and Princeton Review Best College Since 1992

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
The Princeton Review continues to recognize New Jersey Institute of Technology as one of the best universities in the U.S. NJIT is featured in this year’s edition of the educational services company’s guide, The Best 391 Colleges. Just 15% of all four-year colleges and universities made the guide, w...

How NJIT's Business School Has Evolved Under Dean Oya Tukel

Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Oya Tukel leads the Martin Tuchman School of Management at New Jersey Institute of Technology like a business — and a scrappy, entrepreneurial one at that. “We’re nimble and flexible with a simple organizational structure. We’re very flat. We share the work. Also, faculty has flexibility to teach in...

Skin Graft Research Leads Students to Top 8 in Hult Pitch Competition

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Aliza Mujahid, a senior biomedical engineering student, along with mechanical engineering Ph.D. student and research assistant Mohammad Jafari, reached the final round-of-eight in the 2025 U.S. Hult Prize competition for social-minded startup founders. The duo, w...

NJIT Alumnus Jordan Hu Named Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Jordan Hu ’89, CEO of RiskVal Financial Solutions, and a distinguished alumnus of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has been named a finalist for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year New Jersey award. Now in its 40th year, the award celebrates entrepreneurs who are sha...

NJIT Hosts Gubernatorial Candidates Forum on Small Business Growth

Thursday, March 20th, 2025
NJIT served as the venue for a March 19 gubernatorial forum dedicated to exploring the challenges and solutions for fostering small and diverse business growth across New Jersey. The event, initiated by Jeff Cantor, CEO of the Veterans Chamber of Commerce, highlighted the need for improvements and s...