The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in the University Heights neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Centrally located in the New York metropolitan area, its campus is within walking distance of Downtown Newark. New York City, 9 miles (14.5 km) and under 30 minutes away, is directly accessible from campus via rapid transit. NJIT is New Jersey's Science & Technology University. Among other activities, it operates The Enterprise Development Center (EDC), one of the larger tech-oriented business incubators in the country.
Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors especially Edward Weston (334 US patents), NJIT opened as Newark Technical School in 1884 with 88 students. Application oriented from inception the school grew into a classic engineering college – Newark College of Engineering (NCE) – and then, with the addition of a School of Architecture in 1973, into a polytechnic university that now hosts five colleges and one school.
NJIT offers 50 undergraduate (Bachelor of Science/Arts) majors and 65 graduate (Masters and PhD) programs. Via its Honors College it also offers professional programs in Healthcare and Law in collaboration with nearby institutions including Rutgers Medical School, and Seton Hall Law School.
