Traditions
- The Tour de Tech is an annual campus bicycle race.
- Beginning in 2004, NJIT Day has become an annual campus event taking place early October of each year where the families of students as well as alumni are invited to participate in the festivities.
- Some still call the university by its earlier name, Newark College of Engineering (NCE). NCE is now one of the six colleges within the university.
- NJIT students have been called NiJITs in the past (School catalogue of '78, P.45)
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