Frequently Asked Questions

NJIT@JerseyCity is located on the 36th floor of 101 Hudson St., a three-minute walk from the Exchange Place PATH station, and directly across from the Exchange Place station of the Hudson-Bergen light rail. It is also a five-minute walk from the Paulus Hook ferry dock and a seven-minute walk from the Harborside ferry dock. On the first day of studies, those students who have provided photos in advance will be given permanent access passes to the building for the semester. Please have a valid ID to sign in as a guest at the front desk in the building on the first day and you may retrieve your access pass once you reach Suite 3610. The access pass provides entry to the building, but not to the NJIT suite unless it is open. The suite is open during the semester on Mon-Thurs, 4pm-9:30pm.

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. If you have submitted a photo for the 101 Hudson building, you will also be provided an NJIT ID card early in the semester.

NJIT requires all students, instructors, and staff to be fully vaccinated, including a booster shot. NJIT is mandating twice-weekly testing of all students and employees with approved exemptions from COVID-19 vaccination and for those who are not yet fully vaccinated. NJIT also requires an indoor mask mandate for all, regardless of vaccination status. For more information about the NJIT COVID-19 vaccine requirement, 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 Summer semester can be found here. The last day to add or drop a course without penalty is May 30. The last day of classes for the Summer semester is August 8. 

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 instructor and TA’s office hours to ask questions about your coursework. Any question goes and our instructors are more than happy to help. If you feel you need more than that – please take advantage of our extensive (online) tutoring service, which covers also many of the popular courses offered at NJIT@JC. The Spring tutoring schedule will be updated by late January. 

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 Tim Hart - our Enrollment Services Manager - at hart@njit.edu or 973-596-2911.