Graduate architectural education exposes students to the broad intellectual inquiry of the academy and the specific technical knowledge required in the world of professional practice. Sustainable design is a basic attitude which informs our entire curriculum. Communication skills move from basic visual literacy to instruction in the principles and techniques of digital design: computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), three-dimensional digital rendering, and digital animation. Students gain experience through individual design studio projects that range from the small-scale design and manufacture of a single object to a large-scale design of communities.

Our location-five minutes from Newark Penn Station by subway, and thirty minutes from Midtown Manhattan-gives students access to a faculty drawn from the largest concentration of design professionals in the country, and enables those faculty to treat design as a diverse series of real projects on real sites in a vital metropolitan region. In combination with the unparalleled internship opportunities available in New York and Northern New Jersey and the availability of dual degree programs, this approach allows students to both prepare for a career in architecture and to find a direction within the field. The architect envisions and imagines both what is possible, and what ought to be. As a process, design gives form to society and the economic and technological aspects of environmental order.

The faculty comprises practitioners and scholars whose expertise and professional reputation are based on both breadth and depth of achievement. Their work directly engages the architectural discourse through research, publication, public lectures, symposia and professional practice. Many members have received scholarly recognition and design awards.

The New Jersey School of Architecture offers the only publicly supported professional program in New Jersey and is committed to NJIT's reputation as a nationally recognized technological university.

Why study architectural studies through CPE?

CPE gives you options. In addition to taking courses at NJIT’s Newark campus, you can enroll in online courses. You’ll have access to the same outstanding facilities and professors as full-time NJIT students, plus the flexibility you need to juggle all the aspects of your life.

More information can be found in the catalog of courses and at the NJ School of Architecture.