NJIT is preparing the workforce that New Jersey needs.
NJIT is our state’s only public polytechnic university and its greatest producer of tech knowledge and talent.
NJIT alumni have an average mid-career annual salary that is as much as $37,000 greater than their peers from New Jersey’s other four-year public colleges and universities.
NJIT ranks in the top 100 nationally for alumni mid-career earnings.
Our efforts to grow the talent pipeline start long before students enroll at our university
In addition to the Center for Pre-College Programs (which works annually with approximately 4,000 pre-college students and educators) NJIT launched the Newark Math Success Initiative (MSI) to help strengthen Newark students' math knowledge and skills as well as their college readiness. The program also provides professional development to a select number of mathematics teachers from designated high schools in order to build learning communities that support best practices in mathematics instruction. Since the 2019 inauguration of this initiative, a total of 43 students have matriculated at NJIT; 22 students enrolled in the fall 2023 semester.
The NJIT Forensic Science Initiative (FSI) was started with seed money from a $1.4 million federal grant through New Jersey’s “Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund” COVID-recovery funding. In the first year, a cohort of high school seniors from the Newark and Orange school districts came to campus for hands-on research and were enrolled in FRSC 201, Introduction to Forensic Science, a university credit-bearing course. The grant also supported the training of 12 high school teachers to teach FRSC 201 for dual high school/college credit, expanding NJIT’s outreach to approximately 300 students in 2023-2024.
To read more about NJIT’s Pre-College Programs, please see https://www.njit.edu/precollege/