NYIT's interdisciplinary centers of excellence feature interdisciplinary research, graduate degree programs, and "best-in-class" work in a small number of highly-targeted niches. These centers bring together departments, faculty, and students for ambitious collaborations and exchanges of ideas.

• The Center for Global Health is one of NYIT's pioneering centers of excellence, and opened its doors in 2007.
• The Center for Metropolitan Sustainability is focused on creating a pathway to our urban future. Combining aspects of architecture, engineering, and management, we look to educate students and the general population about the right choices for sustainability.
• The Center for Gerontology and Geriatrics collaborates with the academic community, government, civic, professional and business groups, and funders, in its mission to help prepare for an aging society on the regional, state, national, and global levels.