New Jersey Institute of Technology

The New Jersey Institute of Technology is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey, United States, with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City, and it occupies the 741-750 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.新泽西理工学院是一所位于美国新泽西州纽瓦克的公立研究型大学，并在泽西市设有可授予研究生学位的卫星校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 741-750 区间。

Founded in 1881 with the backing of local industrialists and inventors, above all the chemist and inventor Edward Weston, it opened in February 1885 as the Newark Technical School with an initial cohort of 88 students.该校在本地实业家与发明家的支持下于 1881 年创办，其中以化学家兼发明家爱德华·韦斯顿出力最多，1885 年 2 月以「纽瓦克技术学校」之名开学，首届学生 88 人。

Its OpenAlex record lists 30,890 research works and 1,360,489 citations, and in autumn 2025 it enrolled 12,309 students, about 2,500 of whom lived on the Newark campus.其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 30,890 项、被引 1,360,489 次；2025 年秋季该校在读学生 12,309 人，其中约 2,500 人住在纽瓦克校区。

History

• The institution traces its origin to an act of the New Jersey State Legislature, first introduced from Essex County on 24 March 1880 and revised in 1881 with the advice of the Newark Board of Trade.该校的源头可溯至新泽西州议会的一项法案，该案 1880 年 3 月 24 日由埃塞克斯县首先提出，并于 1881 年在纽瓦克贸易委员会的建议下修订。

• The act set up a contest among municipalities, offering between 3,000 and 5,000 dollars of state money to the town that matched it and so earned the right to host the urgently needed technical school.该法案在各市镇之间设立竞争，由州政府提供 3,000 至 5,000 美元，凡等额配套者可取得承办这所亟需的技术学校的资格。

• The Newark Board of Trade and the city council campaigned jointly, raising funds from industrialists and private citizens, and by 1884 the sum required had been collected.纽瓦克贸易委员会与市议会联合募款，向实业家与市民劝捐，到 1884 年所需款项已筹齐。

• The Newark Technical School opened in February 1885, and its first 88 students, most of them evening students, attended classes in a rented building at 21 West Park Street.纽瓦克技术学校于 1885 年 2 月开学，首届 88 名学生多为夜读生，在西帕克街 21 号的租赁楼内上课。

• In 1886, under the school's first director Charles A. Colton, a cornerstone was laid at the junction of High Street and Summit Place for a three-storey building later named Weston Hall.1886 年，在该校首任校长查尔斯·科尔顿主持下，海街与山顶广场交汇处奠基兴建一栋三层楼，后命名为韦斯顿楼。

• A laboratory building called Colton Hall was added to the campus in 1911, named for the director who had guided the school through its first quarter century.1911 年，校园内增建名为科尔顿楼的实验楼，以纪念带领学校走过最初二十五年的这位校长。

• Allan Cullimore led the institution from 1920 to 1949 and transformed the Newark Technical School into the Newark College of Engineering, the name adopted in 1930.艾伦·卡利莫尔自 1920 至 1949 年主持校务，把纽瓦克技术学校改组为纽瓦克工程学院，该名称于 1930 年正式采用。

• Campbell Hall was erected in 1925, and because of the Great Depression and the Second World War the following decades brought only modest additions, chiefly the former Newark Orphan Asylum, now Eberhardt Hall.坎贝尔楼建于 1925 年；由于大萧条与第二次世界大战，此后数十年间仅有小规模扩建，主要是购入前纽瓦克孤儿院并改为如今的埃伯哈特楼。

• In 1946 about three quarters of the freshman class had served in the United States Armed Forces, a reflection of the post-war surge in veteran enrolment.1946 年，约四分之三的新生曾在美国军队服役，反映了战后退伍军人入学潮。

• Cullimore Hall was built in 1958, and two years later the old Weston Hall was demolished and replaced by the present seven-storey structure on the same site.卡利莫尔楼建于 1958 年；两年后旧韦斯顿楼被拆除，原址上建起如今这座七层大楼。

• Doctoral programmes were introduced in 1960, and in 1966 an expansion of eighteen acres with four buildings was completed, extending the campus eastward.1960 年开设博士项目；1966 年完成十八英亩、四栋建筑的扩建，使校园向东延伸。

• The New Jersey School of Architecture was added in 1973, turning the college into a technological university with a widening range of graduate and undergraduate degrees.1973 年增设新泽西建筑学院，使该校成为一所开设日益广泛的研究生与本科专业的理工大学。

• President William Hazell invited alumni to suggest a new name, and the winning entry from Joseph M. Anderson of the class of 1925 was New Jersey Institute of Technology.校长威廉·哈泽尔向校友征集新校名，最终 1925 届学生约瑟夫·安德森的提议「新泽西理工学院」获选。

• The Board of Trustees approved the change in September 1974, and on 1 January 1975 the Newark College of Engineering officially became the New Jersey Institute of Technology.董事会于 1974 年 9 月批准更名，1975 年 1 月 1 日纽瓦克工程学院正式改称新泽西理工学院。

• The old name survived in the university's engineering school, which is still called the Newark College of Engineering and dates its own history to 1919.旧名保留在其工程学院之中，该院至今仍称纽瓦克工程学院，并将自身历史追溯至 1919 年。

• The opening of Redwood Hall in 1979 began the residential campus, and Cypress, Oak and Laurel halls were placed in service during the 1990s for about 1,500 students.1979 年红杉楼的启用标志着住宿制校园的开端，1990 年代又陆续启用柏树楼、橡树楼与月桂楼，可容纳约 1,500 名学生。

• Two schools were established in the 1980s, the College of Science and Liberal Arts in 1982 and the School of Industrial Management in 1988.1980 年代增设两个学院，即 1982 年的科学与文理学院与 1988 年的工业管理学院。

• The Albert Dorman Honors College was established in 1994, and the College of Computing Sciences, the newest school, was created in 2001 from the computer and information science department.1994 年成立阿尔伯特·多尔曼荣誉学院；2001 年由计算机与信息科学系组建了最新的学院——计算科学学院。

• A new Campus Center opened in 2003 on the site of the former Hazell Hall, and the renovation of Eberhardt Hall in 2005 restored it as the Alumni Center and the university's symbolic front door.2003 年在原哈泽尔楼旧址建成新的校园中心；2005 年埃伯哈特楼整修后恢复为校友中心，成为该校象征性的正门。

• The old Central High School building between the NJIT and Rutgers-Newark campuses was purchased in June 2010, and Summit Street was converted into a pedestrian walkway.2010 年 6 月，该校购得位于本校与罗格斯纽瓦克校区之间的旧中央高中大楼，峰街随之改为步行通道。

• Between 2016 and 2018 several facilities opened, including a 209,000-square-foot Wellness and Events Center with a retractable 3,500-seat arena and a 24,000-square-foot Life Sciences and Engineering Center.2016 至 2018 年间多座设施落成，包括建筑面积 20.9 万平方英尺、配有 3,500 座可伸缩看台的健身与活动中心，以及 2.4 万平方英尺的生命科学与工程中心。

Academics

• Comprising five colleges and one school, the university is organised into 21 departments, three of which, biological sciences, history and theatre arts, are federated with Rutgers-Newark.该校由五个学院与一个学校构成，下设 21 个系，其中生物科学、历史与戏剧艺术三个系与罗格斯纽瓦克校区联合设置。

• It offers 51 undergraduate majors leading to the Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts and 71 graduate programmes at master's and doctoral level.该校开设 51 个可授予理学士或文学士的本科专业，以及 71 个硕士与博士层次的研究生项目。

• The Newark College of Engineering, established in 1919, is among the oldest and largest professional engineering schools in the United States and offers 13 undergraduate and 16 master's programmes.1919 年设立的纽瓦克工程学院是美国历史最久、规模最大的专业工程学院之一，开设 13 个本科项目与 16 个硕士项目。

• About one in four professional engineers in the state of New Jersey is a graduate of the Newark College of Engineering or NJIT, and the school enrols more than 2,500 undergraduates and 1,100 graduate students.新泽西州约每四名执业工程师中就有一人毕业于纽瓦克工程学院或新泽西理工学院；该院有本科生 2,500 余人、研究生 1,100 余人。

• The Ying Wu College of Computing Sciences contains the largest computer science department among research universities in the New York metropolitan area, accounting for more than a fifth of the student body.应武计算科学学院拥有纽约大都会区研究型大学中规模最大的计算机科学系，学生数占全校五分之一以上。

• In December 2019 the computing college opened a satellite facility in Jersey City focused on financial technology for professionals working on Wall Street and in the city's financial district.2019 年 12 月，该学院在泽西市开设卫星教学点，面向在华尔街与泽西市金融区工作的专业人士，聚焦金融科技。

• The Martin Tuchman School of Management was established in 1988 and accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business in 1997, and it offers a PhD in business data science.马丁·图赫曼管理学院成立于 1988 年，1997 年获国际商学院协会认证，并开设商业数据科学博士项目。

• Through its Albert Dorman Honors College the university offers professional programmes in healthcare and law with Rutgers Medical School and Seton Hall Law School, and cross-registration with Rutgers-Newark.该校经阿尔伯特·多尔曼荣誉学院与罗格斯医学院及西顿霍尔法学院合作开设医疗与法律专业项目，并与罗格斯纽瓦克校区互相选课。

• NJIT is classified among R1 doctoral universities with very high research activity, and its research and development spending rose from 142 million dollars in 2017 to 162 million dollars in 2018.该校属「R1：极高研究活动型」博士大学，其研发支出由 2017 年的 1.42 亿美元增至 2018 年的 1.62 亿美元。

• Research strengths include applied mathematics, materials science, biomedical engineering, cybersecurity and solar-terrestrial physics, the last led by its Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research.其研究强项包括应用数学、材料科学、生物医学工程、网络安全与日地物理，后者由日地研究中心主持。

• The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research owns and operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California, home of the Goode Telescope, and the Owens Valley Solar Array near Bishop.日地研究中心拥有并运营加利福尼亚的大熊湖太阳观测站（古德望远镜所在地）以及毕晓普附近的欧文斯谷太阳阵列。

• A suite of automated observatories in Antarctica, South America and the United States supports the university's solar physics work throughout the year.该校在南极洲、南美洲与美国本土设有成套自动观测站，全年支撑其太阳物理研究。

• The university hosts VentureLink, an on-campus business incubator that houses more than 90 start-ups, and the New Jersey Innovation Institute, which provides research and development services to industry.该校设有校内企业孵化器 VentureLink，入驻初创企业 90 余家，并设有新泽西创新研究院，为企业提供研发服务。

• The university operates a Class-10 cleanroom and a Class-1000 cleanroom for academic and research use, including counter-bioterrorism research, and a 67-node supercomputer cluster in the mathematics department.该校设有十级与千级洁净室用于教学与研究（含反生物恐怖研究），数学系并配有 67 节点的超级计算机集群。

• NJIT is a member of the Sea Grant and Space Grant consortia, has taken part in the McNair Scholars Program since 1999, and is designated both an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving institution and a Hispanic-serving institution.该校是海洋资助与空间资助计划的成员，自 1999 年起参与麦克奈尔学者项目，并被认定为亚裔美国人与美洲原住民太平洋岛民服务型院校及拉美裔服务型院校。

• Further research units include the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity, the SmartCampus centre and the Metro New York FIRST Robotics office.其他研究单位包括国家交通运输与工业生产力中心、智慧校园中心以及纽约大都会 FIRST 机器人办公室。

• The university also ran the Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center, whose Electronic Information Exchange System produced the first e-learning platform, the Virtual Classroom, before the centre closed in the mid-1990s.该校还曾运营计算机化会议与通信中心，其电子信息交换系统孕育出世界首个在线教学平台「虚拟课堂」，该中心于 1990 年代中期结束运作。

Campus

• The main campus stands in Newark's University Heights district at approximately 40.74 degrees north and 74.17 degrees west, a short distance from downtown Newark.主校区位于纽瓦克大学高地地区，坐标约为北纬 40.74 度、西经 74.17 度，与纽瓦克市中心相距不远。

• The campus abuts the Rutgers-Newark campus, and the two institutions share buildings, departments and a pedestrian walkway along Summit Street.该校区与罗格斯纽瓦克校区毗邻，两校共用建筑、系所，并共享峰街的步行通道。

• Its buildings range from the nineteenth-century stone of Eberhardt Hall to the glass and steel of the Wellness and Events Center opened in 2017 and the Life Sciences and Engineering Center of 2018.其建筑从埃伯哈特楼的十九世纪石构，到 2017 年启用的健身与活动中心及 2018 年落成的生命科学与工程中心的玻璃钢构，风格跨度很大。

• The Robert W. Van Houten Library occupies the Central Avenue Building and has housed the Van Houten Information Commons with 120 computer workstations since 1997.罗伯特·范豪滕图书馆设于中央大道大楼内，自 1997 年起设有配备 120 台计算机工作站的范豪滕信息共享区。

• The Barbara and Leonard Littman Library for Architecture and Design, in Weston Hall, holds print and electronic books, journals, maps, drawings, models and more than 70,000 slides.位于韦斯顿楼的芭芭拉与伦纳德·利特曼建筑与设计图书馆收藏纸本与电子图书、期刊、地图、图纸、模型以及 7 万余张幻灯片。

• The Van Houten Library also houses the university's historical archive, including artefacts and rare books collected by Edward Weston, a founding trustee and prolific inventor.范豪滕图书馆还收藏该校历史档案，其中包括创办董事、多产发明家爱德华·韦斯顿收集的器物与珍本。

• There are six residence halls on campus, from Redwood Hall of 1978 to Maple Hall, which opened in 2022 for 500 students.校内有六座宿舍楼，从 1978 年的红杉楼到 2022 年启用、可住 500 人的枫树楼。

• Warren Street Village, now called the John Martinson Residence Hall, opened in 2013 and houses Dorman Honors College students together with several Greek houses for about 600 students.2013 年启用的沃伦街村现称约翰·马丁森宿舍，住有多尔曼荣誉学院学生及若干希腊字母社团，合计约 600 人。

• About 80 per cent of NJIT students commute to campus, and many live in the surrounding neighbourhoods of Harrison, Kearny, the Ironbound and East Orange.约 80% 的新泽西理工学院学生走读，许多人住在哈里森、科尔尼、欧文顿与东奥兰治等周边社区。

• The campus lies about twenty-five minutes from lower Manhattan by the Newark Light Rail and the PATH line to the World Trade Center.乘纽瓦克轻轨与开往世贸中心的 PATH 线，从校区到曼哈顿下城约需二十五分钟。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the New Jersey Institute of Technology is placed in the 741-750 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，新泽西理工学院处于 741-750 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。^[1]

• It stands in the 601-650 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is 1070th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 601-650 区间，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 1070。

• It is placed in the 801-900 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.该校处于软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名 801-900 区间。

• In a TIME ranking published in August 2026 the university was placed 38th among public colleges in the United States and 95th among all American colleges.在 2026 年 8 月发布的《时代》周刊排名中，该校在美国公立院校中列第 38 位、在全美各类院校中列第 95 位。

• U.S. News placed it in a tie for 80th among national universities in its 2025 college rankings and 91st among public national universities in 2026.US News 在其 2025 年高校排名中将该校列为全美大学并列第 80 位，2026 年又将其列为公立大学第 91 位。

• In April 2018 Forbes ranked NJIT first in the country for upward mobility, measured by moving students from the bottom fifth of the income distribution to the top fifth.2018 年 4 月，《福布斯》按把学生从收入最低五分之一提升至最高五分之一的口径，将该校评为全美社会流动性的第一名。

• OpenAlex attributes 30,890 works and 1,360,489 citations to the university, a research record led by engineering and the physical sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校成果 30,890 项、被引 1,360,489 次，科研记录以工程与物理科学为主。

• The university is designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.该校被美国国家安全局与国土安全部认定为网络防御教育领域的国家级卓越中心。

• Twenty-seven members of its faculty had been elected to the National Academy of Inventors by 2025, including 17 fellows, and its students had won 23 Goldwater Scholarships.到 2025 年，该校有 27 名教师当选美国发明家科学院成员（含 17 名会士），其学生并获 23 项戈德华特奖学金。

• Its career development services are ranked among the best in the United States, and the university's cooperative education and internship programmes place students with regional employers.其职业发展服务位居全美前列，学校的合作教育与实习项目把学生输送到本地区雇主处。

Student life

• The university does not promote a formal motto, and its public identity is expressed through the slogan describing it as New Jersey's science and technology university.该校不宣扬正式校训，其公共形象借「新泽西的科学技术大学」这一口号来表达。

• The Vector, an independent weekly student newspaper, was established in 1924 and appears in print with a circulation of about 3,000 and a readership of some 9,000.独立的学生周报《向量》创办于 1924 年，纸质版发行量约 3,000 份、读者约 9,000 人。

• The Vector won the Honor Rating of First Class from the Associated Collegiate Press in 1989 and 1990 and took two awards in the New Jersey Press Foundation competition of 2019 and 2020.《向量》于 1989 与 1990 年获美国大学报刊协会一级荣誉评级，并在 2019 与 2020 年新泽西新闻基金会评奖中获得两项奖励。

• About 2,500 students live in the university's residence halls, where freshmen are housed mainly in Cypress and Redwood and upperclassmen in Laurel and Oak.约 2,500 名学生住在校内宿舍，新生主要入住柏树楼与红杉楼，高年级学生多住月桂楼与橡树楼。

• Greek life, fraternities and sororities, is organised through several councils and occupies Greek Way within the Warren Street Village complex.希腊字母社团（兄弟会与姐妹会）由若干理事会组织，集中使用沃伦街村内的「希腊之路」区域。

• NJIT sponsors 19 NCAA Division I varsity teams, whose athletes are called the Highlanders and who compete mainly in the America East Conference.新泽西理工学院设有 19 支 NCAA 一级校队，队员被称为「高地人」，主要参加美国东部联盟的赛事。

• The university's basketball team made national headlines on 6 December 2014 when, unranked and independent, it defeated the seventeenth-ranked Michigan Wolverines.2014 年 12 月 6 日，该校篮球队以无排名独立身份击败排名第十七的密歇根大学狼獾队，登上全国体育新闻头条。

• The Wellness and Events Center of 2017 provides a 3,500-seat arena that can be converted into an event space for 4,000 attendees, replacing the older Fleisher Athletic Center.2017 年的健身与活动中心提供 3,500 座场馆，可变身为容纳 4,000 人的活动空间，取代了旧的弗莱舍体育中心。

• Students take part in co-operative education, internships and service programmes in Newark, New York and New Jersey, and the university runs study-abroad options with partner institutions.学生参与在纽瓦克、纽约与新泽西的合作教育、实习与服务项目，学校并与伙伴院校开展海外学习选项。

Notable people

• Edward Weston, a founding trustee, chemist and prolific inventor who gave his name to Weston Hall and to the university's early benefaction, received the Franklin Medal in 1924.创办董事、化学家与多产发明家爱德华·韦斯顿的名字被用于韦斯顿楼与学校早期资助，他于 1924 年获富兰克林奖章。

• Charles A. Colton, the school's first director from 1886, guided the Newark Technical School in its earliest years and gave his name to Colton Hall of 1911.1886 年起任首任校长的查尔斯·科尔顿带领纽瓦克技术学校度过最初岁月，1911 年的科尔顿楼即以他命名。

• Allan Cullimore, president from 1920 to 1949, transformed the technical school into the Newark College of Engineering and left an unpublished history of the institution written in 1955.1920 至 1949 年任校长的艾伦·卡利莫尔把技术学校改组为纽瓦克工程学院，并于 1955 年留下了一部未刊校史。

• Judea Pearl, listed among the institution's faculty and alumni, received the 2011 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through probabilistic reasoning.被列入该校教师与校友名录的朱迪亚·珀尔，因在人工智能领域以概率推理作出的基础性贡献，获得 2011 年图灵奖。

• Harry L. Ettlinger, who studied engineering at the institution, was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2015 for his wartime service among the Monuments Men.在该校学习工程的哈里·埃特林格因战时参与「古迹卫士」行动，于 2015 年获颁国会金质奖章。

• John J. Mooney, an alumnus, received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2002 for co-inventing the three-way catalytic converter.校友约翰·穆尼因共同发明三元催化转化器，于 2002 年获颁国家技术发明奖章。

• Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, attended the Newark College of Engineering before transferring to the United States Naval Academy.水星七杰宇航员之一沃利·希拉曾在纽瓦克工程学院就读，后转入美国海军学院。

• Ellen M. Pawlikowski, a retired four-star general of the United States Air Force, is counted among the university's distinguished alumni.美国空军退役四星上将埃伦·帕夫利科夫斯基被列为该校杰出校友之一。

• Robert Altenkirch and Joel Bloom, presidents in the early twenty-first century, oversaw the expansion of the campus centre and the rebranding of the university.二十一世纪初任校长的罗伯特·阿尔滕基希与乔尔·布卢姆，主持了校园中心的扩建与学校的品牌重塑。

• The university's faculty had produced 17 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors by 2025, while its students had taken 7 Fulbright awards and 29 National Science Foundation graduate fellowships.到 2025 年，其教师中已产生 17 名美国发明家科学院会士，学生则获得 7 项富布赖特奖与 29 项美国国家科学基金研究生奖学金。

• Because the institution has issued degrees to nearly 80,000 graduates since 1881, its alumni network is concentrated in engineering, computing and management across New Jersey and New York.由于该校自 1881 年以来已向近 8 万名毕业生授予学位，其校友网络集中于新泽西与纽约的工程、计算与管理领域。