Computer Science at NJIT

NJIT's department of Computer Science is the largest among all CS departments in research universities of the New York metropolitan area. A nexus of education and research - where students engage with computing and innovation.
About

Education

The department offers a full range of degree programs in Computer Science (BS, Graduate Certificate, MS and PhD). In addition, it offers programs in: Cyber Security and Privacy (MS), Software Engineering (MS), Bioinformatics (MS).  The BS programs in Computer Science is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, www.abet.org.

The Computer Science Department enrolls over 3,200 students at all levels across six programs of study and takes part, alongside the Departments of Informatics and Data Science, in the Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC). YWCC comprises 35% of the NJIT enrollment, educating more than 4,700 students in computing disciplines, and graduating over 1,000 computing professionals every year; as such, it is the largest producer of computing talent in the tri-state (NY, NJ, CT) area. The Computer Science Department is housed in a recently renovated state-of-the-art facility. YWCC is undergoing significant growth as a priority area for NJIT. This is an integral part of NJIT's five-year strategic plan, which calls for positioning NJIT as a world-class institution of higher education and research.

Research 

NJIT is a Carnegie R1 Doctoral University (Very High Research Activity), with over $178M research expenditures in FY23. The Computer Science Department has 31 tenured/tenure track faculty, with two IEEE fellows, nine NSF CAREER winners, one DARPA Young Investigator, and one DoE Early Career awardees. The department conducts research to solve real-world grand challenges in computer science and plays a key role in the NJIT Cybersecurity Research Center. The department has strong connections with local industry and works closely with many companies through industry affiliate programs; these include major high-tech companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, AT&T) as well as financial/Wall Street companies (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase) and Pharmaceuticals (Johnson & Johnson, Merck).