PARSIPPANY — Diya Kakadia has been awarded the Presidential Scholarship at New York Institute of Technology, the university’s highest scholarship awarded to incoming first-year students.
Kakadia was among more than one hundred ten students to receive the scholarship.
Kakadia is a 2026 graduate of Morris County School of Technology, where she was involved in National Honors Society, Multicultural Club, HOSA, ERASE, Red Cross, and served as an Academy Student Representative.
New York Institute of Technology’s six schools and colleges offer undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and other professional degree programs in in-demand disciplines including computer science, data science, and cybersecurity; biology, health professions, and medicine; architecture and design; engineering; information technology and digital technologies; management; and energy and sustainability. A nonprofit, independent, private, and nonsectarian institute of higher education founded in 1955, it welcomes nearly eight thousand students worldwide. The university has campuses in New York City and Long Island, New York; Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as programs around the world. More than one hundred twenty thousand alumni are part of an engaged network of physicians, architects, scientists, engineers, business leaders, digital artists, and healthcare professionals.
