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 New Jersey's science and technology university. Centrally located in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, NJIT's campus is within walking distance of downtown Newark. New York City, 8 miles away, is readily accessible via the Newark City Subway and the PATH rapid transit system. Founded in 1881, NJIT opened as Newark Technical School in 1884 with 88 students. Today the university has 9,558 students of whom... more than 1,450 live in one of the school's four dormitories. It is now home to five colleges and one school: Newark College of Engineering; the College of Architecture and Design; the School of Management; the Albert Dorman Honors College; the College of Science and Liberal Arts; and the College of Computing Sciences. Increasingly a residential university, NJIT recently broke ground on the Warren Street Village, a mixed-use, 3-acre project that will provide on-campus housing for an additional 600 students in 2013 including 360 Honors College students.
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| Location: | Newark, New Jersey
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| Founded: | 1881 |
| School type: | Public school, Public university, Land-grant university |
| Total enrollment: | 9,558 |
| Endowment: | $
67,500,000 |
| Colors: | Red, Black |
| School newspaper: | New Jersey Institute of Technology Vector |