List of colleges and universities in New Jersey

Mead Hall was purchased by Daniel Drew in 1867, who donated it to start a Methodist theological seminary that became Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

The following is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

As of 2014 New Jersey has eleven public and sixteen private colleges and universities, six accredited theological and rabbinical schools, as well as four for-profit proprietary institutions.

New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on 10 November 1766 as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution. In the 1860s, these two colleges competed to become the state's land grant college under the terms of the Morrill Act of 1862 which provided land and funding to expand development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education at one school in each state. Rutgers received the designation in 1864 began to expand instruction in these areas and taking on a hybrid private-public role that paved the way for its transformation into a state university in 1945. Today, Rutgers is a large public research university serving over 65,000 students. Princeton remained a private college and developed into a research university that is one of the nation's eight prestigious Ivy League schools.

Colleges and universities

List of active institutions

School	Location	Founded	Control	Type	Enrollment	Accreditation
Assumption College for Sisters	Mendham	1953	Private	Associates	40	MSA, NJCHE
Berkeley College	Newark, Paramus, Woodland Park, Woodbridge	-	Proprietary (for-profit)	Special Focus Institution	3,709	-
Bloomfield College	Bloomfield	1868	Private	Baccalaureate	2,156 || -
Caldwell College	Caldwell	1939	Private	-	2,300	-
Centenary College	Hackettstown	1867	Private	-	1,708	-
College of Saint Elizabeth	Morris Township	1899	Private	-	2,044	-
DeVry University	North Brunswick	1931	Proprietary (for-profit)	-	90,000	-
Drew University	Madison	1867	Private	-	2,369	-
Fairleigh Dickinson University	Madison/Florham Park, Teaneck/Hackensack	1942	Private	-	12,000+	-
Felician College	Lodi/Rutherford	1942	Private	-	2,040	-
Georgian Court University	Lakewood	1908	Private	-	1,772	-
Jersey College	Teterboro, Ewing	-	Proprietary (for-profit)	-	-	-
Kean University	Union, Hillside	1855	Public	-	16,000+	-
Monmouth University	West Long Branch	1933	Private	-	6,494	-
Montclair State University	Montclair	1908	Public	-	18,498	-
New Jersey City University	Jersey City	1929	Public	-	8,550	-
New Jersey Institute of Technology	Newark	1881	Public	Research university	10,130	MSA
Pillar College	Zarephath, Newark	1908	Private	-	-	-
Princeton University	Princeton	1746	Private	-	8,010	-
Ramapo College of New Jersey	Mahwah	1969	Public	-	6,008	-
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey	Galloway	1969	Public	-	8,111	-
Rider University	Lawrenceville	1865	Private	-	5,790	-
Rowan University	Glassboro, Camden	1923	Public	Master's colleges and universities	11,501	MSA
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	New Brunswick and Piscataway, Camden, Newark	1766	Public	Research university	65,000	MSA
Saint Peter's University	Jersey City	1881	Private	-	2,987	-
Seton Hall University	South Orange	1856	Private	-	9.745	-
Strayer University	Cherry Hill	1892	Proprietary (for-profit)	-	40,000+	-
Stevens Institute of Technology	Hoboken	1870	Private	-	5,260	-
The College of New Jersey	Ewing	1855	Public	-	6.964	-
Thomas Edison State College	Trenton	1972	Public	-	20,877	-
William Paterson University	Wayne	1855	Public	-	11,423	-

Theological seminaries and rabbinical schools

Theological seminaries and rabbinical schools in New Jersey

School	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Accreditation	Notes
Beth Medrash Govoha	Lakewood	1943	Haredi Orthodox Judaism	AARTS, NJCHE	-
Drew Theological School	Madison	1867	United Methodist Church	ATS, MSA	Founded as Methodist seminary, expanded into Drew University when liberal arts education added in 1928.
New Brunswick Theological Seminary	New Brunswick	1784	Reformed Church in America	ATS, MSA	Oldest seminary in the United States, founded as Dutch Reformed seminary in New York City, moved to New Brunswick in 1810, run jointly and shared facilities with Queen's College, later Rutgers College, until 1856.
Princeton Theological Seminary	Princeton	1812	Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	ATS, MSA	Second-oldest seminary in the United States, second largest theological library collection in the world, behind only the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City
Rabbinical College of America	Morristown	1973	Jewish (Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic)	-	Rabbinical college, also offers orthodox day school for boys and girls and summer programs
Talmudical Academy of Central New Jersey	Adelphia (Howell)	1972	Orthodox Jewish	-	Includes an orthodox yeshiva high school and rabbinical college

Key

Abbreviation	Accrediting agency
AARTS	Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools
ATS	Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada
MSA	Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
NJCHE	New Jersey Commission on Higher Education

County community colleges

Sussex County's freeholders purchased Don Bosco College, a Roman Catholic seminary, for its community college campus in 1989.

Main article: List of New Jersey County Colleges

New Jersey has a system of 19 public community colleges at the county level statewide. This reflects the fact that each college serves one of New Jersey's 21 counties, except for Atlantic Cape Community College and Raritan Valley Community College, each of which serves two counties. In 1989, the New Jersey Council of County Colleges was created to promote the advancement of the state's county community colleges. In 2003, governor James McGreevey created the New Jersey Community Colleges Compact, through Executive Order No. 81, as a statewide partnership to enable cooperation between the colleges and various state departments. The county colleges of New Jersey represent 56% of all undergraduate students in the state and offer studies in associate's degree and certificate programs. Reflecting long-term trends nationwide, the male-to-female ratio of students in the system is 41% male to 59% female, and 48% of students are over the age of 24. Overall, the system enrolls more than 350,000 students each year on campuses that range in size from 1,300 students at Salem Community College to over 15,000 students at Bergen Community College.

Not all of the county colleges were founded by the State of New Jersey; the oldest county college in New Jersey, Union County College, was founded in 1933 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration as Union County Junior College; it operated as a private college from 1936 to 1982, and merged with the publicly operated Union County Technical Institute in 1982 to become the current public institution.

Defunct institutions

List of defunct institutions in New Jersey

School	Location	Control	Founded	Closed	Notes
Evelyn College for Women	Princeton	-	-	-	-
Gibbs College	Livingston	-	-	-	-
Touro University College of Medicine	Hackensack	-	-	-	-
Upsala College	East Orange, Wantage	Private, Lutheran-affiliated	1893	1995	Financial issues
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)	New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, Stratford	Public	-	2013	Merged with Rutgers University in 2012–13

See also

• New Jersey County Colleges
• Higher education in New Jersey
• Higher education in the United States
• List of American institutions of higher education
• List of recognized higher education accreditation organizations
• List of colleges and universities
• List of colleges and universities by country

External links

• College & University Directory by Sector from New Jersey Commission on Higher Education