About the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts

The College of Science & Liberal Arts was founded in 1982. It was originally known as the Third College, as it had been preceded by NJIT’s Newark College of Engineering and the New Jersey School of Architecture. In 1986, as a result of a more distinctly defined mission and direction, the name of the college was officially changed to the College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA). Growing steadily ever since, CSLA has spawned three of NJIT’s six schools and colleges: the School of Industrial Management (now the Martin Tuchman School of Management) was spun out of CSLA’s Department of Organizational and Social Sciences in 1987, the Albert Dorman Honors College (founded in 1995), which evolved out of the Honors Program that was established within CSLA in 1985, and the College of Computing Sciences (now Ying Wu College of Computing), which evolved from CSLA’s Department of Computer and Information Science in 2001.

In 2024, the College of Science and Liberal Arts was renamed the Jordan Hu College of Science & Liberal Arts (JHCSLA) 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.

Who Studies Liberal Arts and Science at a Technological University?

• People who understand that technology is revolutionizing commerce and industry.
• People who know that protecting the environment requires state-of-the-art science combined with an understanding of policy and culture.
• Innovators who are creating new industries around emerging technologies like fiber optics, microelectronics, and microarray DNA chips