Frequently Asked Questions

NJIT@JerseyCity is located on the 36th floor of the Merryl Lynch Building at 101 Hudson St., a 3-minute walk from the Exchange Place PATH station, directly across from the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail's Exchange Place station, or a 5-minute walk from the Paulus Hook ferry dock.

The NJIT@JerseyCity suite is open from 4:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. while classes and final exams are in session. You will receive additional information prior to the start of your first semester regarding how to provide a photo for your ID badge/access card that will allow you through the front desk gates.

On your first day of class, please ensure you have a valid form of photo identification with you in order to sign in at the building's front desk. You will receive a visitor pass to the NJIT@JerseyCity suite, where you will obtain your building ID badge. Please note that your badge will grant you access through the front desk gates and will not activate the suite's card reader.

In general, we recommend using public transportation, but if you do come by car, there are many parking options, from free and metered street parking to paid parking garages, including one in our building (entrance from York St.). Pay garages are also available at 95 Greene St., 105 Greene St., 10 Exchange Place and 20 Christopher Columbus Dr. More information is available on www.parkopedia.com

All you need is an NJIT ID to use facilities at the Newark campus. You can find instructions on how to receive your NJIT ID via mail here.

NJIT requires all students, instructors, and staff to be fully vaccinated, including a booster shot. Those who are not fully vaccinated must receive an approved exemption. Masks are optional. For more information about NJIT COVID-19 protocols, please see  here.

Absolutely! High-speed Internet access through Wi-Fi is available for NJIT students and guests at NJIT@JC. Students should be able to log in to the NJIT-Secure access point using their UCID credentials. This should automatically log them on to the same network on the Newark campus. For detailed instructions, please consult here.

The best mode of communication with your course instructor is directly by email, but you can also do so by phone, text, Slack, or other messaging systems. Most instructors use the NJIT Canvas Learning System to organize their course materials and student communications.

Please contact the YWCC Associate Director for Academic Operations - Daniel Pavlick.  He will be personally assisting NJIT@JC students with any academic enquiries they may have. Please do not hesitate to reach out to him.

The University’s academic calendar for the Spring 2023 semester can be found here. Please note that the last day to add or drop a course without penalty is January 23, the last day of classes for the Spring semester is May 2, and the final exam period is scheduled for May 5-11.

We encourage you to do your best to attend classes in person, as we believe there is no substitute for the type of in-person interaction that you receive in class. However, we realize that unexpected events or business travel may occasionally prevent you from attending a class. Please be in touch with your course instructor if you are unable to make it. Some may record their classes and post on Canvas.

As a student at NJIT@JerseyCity, no matter what your residency or visa status is (except F1), you are eligible for the special NJIT@JC tuition rate, which is approximately 20% less than the standard in-state tuition rate charged at NJIT in Newark. You are eligible for this special tuition rate independent of the number of courses you study at NJIT@JC.

Many courses are offered at NJIT@JC, so you will find quite a lot of variety to choose from. Any course offered at NJIT@JC will count as a valid elective to most of the degree programs offered at NJIT@JC, no matter which one. Please note, however, that there will always be many more electives offered at Newark than at Jersey City, simply because Newark serves many more students. This is one of the reasons we are offering discounted tuition NJIT@JC.

You may enroll in any course offered by NJIT, whether at Newark, JC or online. However, the special uniform NJIT@JC rate will apply only to courses offered by NJIT@JC. A list of those courses is available here. With the permission of Dean Gotsman, you may enroll in one course outside of NJIT@JC per semester, and the difference in tuition will be covered in the form of a scholarship. This will typically be granted if the course is not offered at NJIT@JC, and you have completed all the required courses in your degree program offered that semester at NJIT@JC.

Absolutely! Please take advantage of your instructors' and Teaching Assistants' office hours to ask questions about your coursework—any such question goes, and our instructors are more than happy to help. For additional assistance, we invite you to use our extensive online tutoring service, with offerings for many of NJIT@JC's popular courses.

NJIT@JerseyCity operates on the Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) principle, namely, all students are required to own a laptop and bring it to class as needed. All homework assignments and projects will be done on these laptops, sometimes by accessing cloud resources. In case you do not own a laptop computer, NJIT has an arrangement with Lenovo and Dell, by which students can purchase laptops with the minimal and recommended specs at discount prices. Please see details here.

One of NJIT’s top priorities is the safety of its students and staff. Thus, on occasional days of inclement weather (mostly heavy snow), NJIT will have delayed openings or closings which will affect classes. Please register at the NJIT Campus-Wide Notification System to receive alerts of these events, which will also be posted on the NJIT Web site. In some cases, classes may be given online (e.g. through WebEx) instead of in-person.

In principle – yes. You may receive credit towards an MS degree for up to six credits of graduate-level courses taken in the past in a university in the USA, provided they are very similar to courses required for your MS degree, you achieved a grade of B or higher, were taken no earlier than seven years ago, and were not used in the fulfillment of a previous degree. A few exceptions apply (e.g. if you studied these courses at NJIT, even as part of a degree program, you may “double count” them). This requires completion of the Transfer Credit Form, including approval by the relevant Academic Advisor.

You will graduate with a Certificate if your average GPA in the four Certificate courses is at least 2.75. You may transfer from a Certificate program to a full MS program offered at NJIT@JC at any time, subject to academic approval by the appropriate MS program director, if you have an average GPA of at least 3.0 in the Certificate. You may transfer earlier (before you complete the Certificate) if you really do well and are eager to transfer. If you do transfer to the MS program, all your Certificate course credits will be counted towards your MS degree, certainly as electives.

Please consult the NJIT graduate studies Web site.

Please contact Simran Anand, Enrollment Services Manager, at simran.anand@njit.edu or 973-596-2798.

Please contact Julio Oyola, Associate Director of Operations for NJIT@JerseyCity, at julio.oyola@njit.edu or 973-596-5304.