About Digital Design in New Jersey Institute of Technology

Digital Design is an always-evolving multidisciplinary program that prepares students to make creative contributions in areas ranging from electronic communications to advertising to entertainment. Designers create intellectual property and apply aesthetic solutions to enhance the value of a product or service.

Digital designers are creative problem-solvers who can visually organize technical information on the one hand, and create completely new imaginary virtual domains on the other – and almost anything in between. They are comfortable with ambiguity, searching out a range of potential solutions to problems not yet articulated; they create and present content that feeds a variety of domains including game design, architecture, interior design, product design, environment design for entertainment and advertising, animation, web design, storyboard art, and scientific visualization.

Degrees Offered

• B.A. Digital Design
• Certificate in Animation Essentials
• Certificate in Digital Arts Essentials
• Certificate in Game Design and Interactivity Essentials
• Certificate in UI/UX Digital Design Essentials

Where do Digital Design majors work?

Common Job Titles

• UI/UX Designer and Researcher
• Compositor
• Animator
• Art Director
• Motion Graphics/Character Designer
• Storyboard/Layout Artist
• Graphic/Web Designer
• Game Designer
• Environment (set) Designer
• Pre-viz Artist

Top Employers

• ETS
• Grafx Co.
• High 5 Games
• KWD – Kim Wendell Design LLC
• Method Studios
• NBC Universal Studios
• NTROPIC
• SUSPECT vfx+design
• SWD Tech Games

All first-year students who apply to NJIT must submit an official high school transcript in English. When evaluating your application for undergraduate admission, we are interested in understanding how you challenged yourself relative to the curriculum that was available at your school and the trends in your performance—especially your grades in math, science and English.

Your completed coursework should include English Composition, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Chemistry and Physics. We also consider the GPA (Grade Point Average) that is indicated on your high school transcript. We generally look for students in the top 25% of their class. For schools that don't use a ranking system, we consider a 3.0 GPA or higher to be the equivalent.

English Language Requirements

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or Duolingo or is required of all applicants whose first language is not English - both on the undergraduate and graduate levels. The minimum score required is 79 for the internet-based TOEFL exam, 213 for the computer-based TOEFL exam, 550 for the paper TOEFL exam, 6.0 for the IELTS exam, 100 for the Duolingo exam (undergraduate applicants) or 120 for the Duolingo exam (graduate applicants).

New Jersey Institute of Technology Highlights

New Jersey Institute of Technology Cost of Attendance

The cost of attendance is an average cost incurred by the student to attend one academic year. For each academic year, the cost of attendance for both undergraduate and graduate programs is set by the Student Financial Aid Service depending on the program, housing and residency selection and year in school.

The cost of attendance for New Jersey Institute of Technology is tabulated below: