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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 i...

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, ...

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...

NJIT Awarded in State's Pilot Global Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Program

Thursday, January 16th, 2025
The New Jersey Office of the Secretary of Higher Education (OSHE) announced awards to two institutions of higher education under the state’s pilot Global Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (Global EIR) program. With a targeted focus on driving innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of generative AI, t...

NJIT Training Helps Undergrad and Parents Open New Music Business

Friday, December 6th, 2024
Tapyoca, offering a new twist on music distribution for independent and small artists and brands, is finding its way around the startup world with guidance from New Jersey Institute of Technology’s entrepreneurship experts. The company is family-led. Jordan-River Samuel is a sophomore in NJIT’s Mar...

For 6th Straight Year, NJIT Is Top 50 in Entrepreneurship

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
For the sixth straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology's undergraduate program for entrepreneurship ranks top 50 nationally, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. At No. 44, NJIT improved three places from last year. Also, its graduate program for entrepreneurship ro...

NJIT and NJEDA Launch NJII Venture Studio

Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) and New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a corporation of NJIT, have launched the NJII Venture Studio, New Jersey’s latest Strategic Innovation Center (SIC). The NJII Venture Studio will accelerate and commercialize high-tech and information ...

NJIT Opens New Center, Expands Opportunities for Undergrads in Entrepreneurship

Thursday, October 10th, 2024
The Center for Student Entrepreneurship, newly created at New Jersey Institute of Technology, will centralize and grow the university’s resources that expose students to the spirit and skills necessary to think in an innovative mindset. Other entrepreneurship resources at NJIT also welcome undergra...

Princeton Review Names NJIT a Best College for 33rd Straight Year

Tuesday, August 27th, 2024
New Jersey Institute of Technology has maintained its remarkable run in The Princeton Review’s annual guide to the best universities and colleges in the United States. For the 33rd straight year, NJIT is featured in the guide, which is based on surveys of some 168,000 students. Just 15% of the nati...