New Jersey Institute of Technology, also known as NJIT, is a public research university located in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, United States.

NJIT is the science and technology university of the state of New Jersey.

With an undergraduate population that is almost 20 % international, NJIT consistently ranks among the 10 most ethnically and culturally diverse national universities in the country.

NJIT also focuses on economic development, a prime example of which is the Enterprise Development Center ( EDC ), an on-campus business incubator established in 1988 that currently houses 88 start-ups.

NJIT is a participating Internet2 member, and has been since 2005.

NJIT is a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

Access to NJIT is enhanced by the Newark Light Rail which has a station on campus at Warren Street ( NLR station ) | Warren Street which is linked to Pennsylvania Station ( Newark ) that has economical Port Authority Trans-Hudson | PATH train access to New York City.

* NJIT is ranked 11th in the nation ( 2009 ) for conferring bachelor ’ s degrees in engineering to African Americans, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

* NJIT is currently ranked by Princeton Review as # 5 in the Nation for Least Happy Students.

The on-campus Warren St ./ NJIT station of the Newark City Subway is 3 stops ( about 5 minutes ) away from Penn Station Newark.

He began his teaching career in 2007 as a professor of Music Technology at NJIT and as of 2008 he is currently a professor of Music Industry and Production at Ramapo College of NJ.

University Heights is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, so named because of the location of four academic institutions within its boundaries — Rutgers University ( Newark Campus ), the New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ), the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ( UMDNJ ), and Essex County College.

The neighborhood is served by Washington Street, Warren Street / NJIT and Norfolk Street stations of the Newark Light Rail system which links to Manhattan via the PATH system.

The area is home to the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers University and the Weston Museum in the Van Houten Library at NJIT, which includes artifacts from inventor Edward Weston, an early challenger of Thomas Edison.

Eberhardt Hall at NJIT, St. Mary's Abbey Church, Essex County Hall of Records, and Essex County Courthouse are among Newark's registered historic places, as is the former Essex County Jail.

Alumni Brandin Knight ( Pitt ), Ira Bowman ( NJIT ), Marcus Toney-El ( FDU ) are all currently Division 1 Assistant Basketball Coaches, and Michael Malone is an assistant with the NBA's Golden State Warriors.

University Heights Science Park is uniquely positioned to provide technology businesses with a competitive advantage through its ties with the three NJ public research universities located nearby: New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ), The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey ( UMDNJ ) and Rutgers – Newark.

* Gary Thomas, deceased, provost and vice-president at NJIT, and Chancellor of the University of Missouri – Rolla ( currently known as Missouri University of Science and Technology ).

* NJIT was ranked by Princeton Review as one of top 50 best value public colleges in 2009.

* NJIT was ranked by Princeton Review in 2010 as one of the Best Northeastern Colleges, # 7 in the nation for " Professors Get Low Marks ", # 8 for Least Accessible Professors, # 11 for Dorms Like Dungeons and # 1 Least Beautiful Campus.

* NJIT was ranked 351-400th place university in the world by Times Higher Education in 2011-2012.

* NJIT was ranked 434th out of around 20000 colleges and universities in the world by Webometrics in Jan 2011.

* NJIT was ranked 135th out of 662 universities in USA in R & D expenditures in 2007 by the National Science Foundation ( NSF ).

* NJIT was ranked among the top 100 world universities in Computer Science both in 2009 and in 2010 by Academic Ranking of World Universities ( ARWU ).

* NJIT was ranked 1st for average amount paid to full time professors in the nation among public universities.

* NJIT was ranked the 19th most popular National University in USA by US News and World Report 2010.

* NJIT was ranked 499th overall and 132nd for its Engineering, Computing, and Technology Faculty in the world by High Impact Universities in 2010.

A new almost-on-campus resident hall completed in 2007 known as ' University Center ' ( run by American Campus Communities ) just beside the InfoTech building also accommodates students from NJIT and neighboring Rutgers-Newark, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Seton Hall University.

According to PayScale NJIT ranks # 12 among the Best Engineering Colleges in the United States by Salary Potential.

It was built by Caltech and was operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ) from 1997.

On January 9, 2012, NJIT Trustees named Joel Bloom president.

NJIT has a summer student exchange programme with Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, Kolkata every summer in the month of June when students from HIT-K visit NJIT to do summer training / internship at NJIT as part of their university WBUT's course curriculum.

The Institute signed an MOU with New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ), NJ, USA for a student exchange programme under which the first batch of 20 students had a 6-week training programme at NJIT during 2008.

Some of the major universities which have a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) with IIT Roorkee are National University of Singapore ( NUS ), Singapore ; Royal Institute of Technology ( KTH ), Stockholm ; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland ( EPFL ); Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ( ETH ); Technische Universität München ( TUM ), Germany ; Institut National des Télécommunications, Évry, France ; University of Texas at Dallas, USA ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ) at Newark, USA ; University of Waterloo, Canada ; University of Western Ontario, Canada

The charter members included North Dakota, South Dakota, New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ), Houston Baptist, Texas-Pan American, and Utah Valley.

* New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ) ( 1997 to 2000 )

* NJIT Highlanders, the teams ( NCAA Division 1 level ), students, alumnae / alumni and fans of the New Jersey Institute of Technology

* Sunil Saigal-Dean, Newark College of Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology ( NJIT ), B. E.

NJIT offers 125 degree programs including 49 undergraduate ( Bachelor of Science / Arts ) majors, and 76 graduate ( Masters and PhD ) programs.

NJIT has also developed several advanced / professional degree programs in collaboration with other universities in Newark.

* Yoshisada Yonezuka, judo coach at NJIT, and head of United States Olympics judo team.