One of the nation’s leading public technological universities, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) prepares students to ... be leaders in the technology-dependent economy of the 21st century. Founded in 1881 as the Newark Technical School, NJIT is now home to nearly 50 laboratories, centers, and business incubators, where hundreds of research breakthroughs have been achieved. NJIT’s vision stresses innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement in addressing the issues facing our society. The pursuit of excellence, real-world learning, and applied research underpin the university’s education tradition. NJIT prepares its graduates for positions of leadership as professionals and as citizens; provides educational opportunities for a broadly diverse student body; responds to needs of large and small businesses, state and local governmental agencies, and civic organizations; partners with educational institutions at all levels to accomplish its mission; and advances the uses of technology as a means of improving the quality of life. In addition to offering classes at the Newark, NJ campus, NJIT also offers a suite of masters programs and graduate certificates that are available fully online. Online courses are flexible and rigorous educational experiences suited to motivated, career-minded students who want to either advance in their current company or change careers. NJIT is proud to be the pioneer of distance learning. Working in the late 1970’s, two NJIT professors created the software—and the teaching methods—used to support some of the first distance learning classes. In fact, the phrase, Virtual Classroom® was coined and registered as a trademark at NJIT. NJIT online classes are virtual learning communities with instructor-led online classrooms that use rich platforms to present course material as well as both asynchronous and synchronous communication. read more