The College of Science & Liberal Arts was established in 1982. Initially referred to as the “Third College”, it followed NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering and the New Jersey School of Architecture.
In 1986, the college underwent a name change to better reflect its refined mission and direction, becoming the College of Science & Liberal Arts.
Since its inception, CSLA has experienced steady growth and expansion. Notably, it has also played a pivotal role in the establishment of three of NJIT’s current schools and colleges:
Honors College, stemming from the Honors Program originating within CSLA in 1985.
School of Management, emerging from CSLA’s Department of Organizational and Social Sciences in 1987.
College of Computing, emerging from CSLA’s Computer and Information Science Department in 2001.
In 2024, the College of Science and Liberal Arts was renamed the Jordan Hu College of Science & Liberal Arts in recognition of a historic gift from Jordan Hu ’89, founder and chief executive officer of RiskVal Financial Solutions, LLC and a former member of the university’s Board of Trustees, who earned his Master of Science in Computer Science from NJIT in 1989 when the program was housed under CSLA.
Today the Jordan HuCollege of Science & Liberal Arts consists of six academic departments:
