For the sixth straight year, New Jersey Institute of Technology undergraduate program for entrepreneurship ranks top 50 nationally, according to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
Ranked at No. 44, NJIT improved three places from last year.
In addition, its graduate program for entrepreneurship rose two places to No. 29, making it the only N.J. school on the list. The grad ranking began last year.
Oya Tukel, dean of NJIT’s Martin Tuchman School of Management, a key hub for entrepreneurship at the university, obviously was thrilled.
“Day in, day out, we help students turn knowledge into action,” she said. “We help them recognize gaps in the business world and hatch business plans that address them. As a result, they’re primed to become productive members of society.”
The spokes in NJIT’s entrepreneurship wheel include:
- NJII Venture Studio, a partnership of NJIT’s New Jersey Innovation Institute and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority that nurtures research and development, innovation and entrepreneurship
- Center for Student Entrepreneurship, which focuses exclusively on undergrads and is led by Executive Director of Student Entrepreneurship Kathy Naasz, a research professor at MTSM
- Center for Translational Research, which seeks to commercialize faculty intellectual property
- Paul Profeta Community Entrepreneurship Program, which delivers workshops to underserved business founders in Newark.
