# List of colleges and universities in New Jersey

As of 2014, the State of New Jersey recognizes and licenses 66 institutions of higher education (post-secondary) through its Commission on Higher Education. These institutions include four public research universities, seven state colleges and universities, fourteen private colleges and universities (two of which are classified as research universities), eighteen county colleges, fourteen religious institutions, and eight for-profit proprietary schools.
As of July 2020, The U.S. Department of Education listed 166 colleges and universities in its database. This includes technical and vocational schools that offer only certificates or job training as well as degree-granting colleges and universities.
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 November 10, 1766, as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.$^{:passim.}$ 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.
On August 22, 2012, then New Jersey governor Chris Christie signed into law the New Jersey Medical and Health Science Education Restructuring Act which divided the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) between Rutgers and Rowan University, creating two public medical schools. According to The Star-Ledger, the law gave Rutgers "nearly all of UMDNJ—including its medical schools in Newark and Piscataway—in one of the greatest expansions in the state university's history" and southern New Jersey's Rowan University would "take over UMDNJ's osteopathic medical school in Stratford."
There are three law schools in the state accredited by the American Bar Association; two at Rutgers (at the university's Rutgers–Newark and Rutgers–Camden campuses respectively) and the other at Seton Hall University's campus in Newark.

## Colleges and universities

Key :
| Abbreviation | Accrediting or approving agency |
| AARTS | Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools |
| ATS | Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada |
| MSCHE | Middle States Commission on Higher Education |
| NJCHE | New Jersey Commission on Higher Education |

### Public colleges and universities

| School | Location | Founded | Control | Type | Enrollment Fall 2022 | Accrediting or approving agency |
| The College of New Jersey | Ewing Township | 1855 | Public | Master's | 7,629 | MSCHE |
| Kean University | Union and Hillside | 1855 | Public | Doctoral/Professional Universities | 12,884 | MSCHE |
| Montclair State University | Montclair, Little Falls, and Bloomfield | 1908 | Public | Research university | 21,784 | MSCHE |
| New Jersey City University | Jersey City | 1927 | Public | Master's | 6,539 | MSCHE |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark | 1881 | Public | Research university | 12,332 | MSCHE |
| Ramapo College | Mahwah | 1969 | Public | Master's | 5,478 | MSCHE |
| Rowan University | Glassboro, Camden, and Stratford | 1923 | Public | Research university | 19,535 | MSCHE |
| Rutgers University | New Brunswick, Piscataway, Camden, and Newark | 1766 | Public | Research university | 67,620 | MSCHE |
| Stockton University | Galloway and Atlantic City | 1969 | Public | Master's | 9,080 | MSCHE |
| Thomas Edison State University | Trenton | 1972 | Public | Master's | 8,248 | MSCHE |
| William Paterson University | Wayne | 1855 | Public | Master's | 9,070 | MSCHE |

### Private colleges and universities

| School | Location | Founded | Control | Type | Enrollment Fall 2022 | Accrediting or approving agency |
| Caldwell University | Caldwell | 1939 | Private | Master's | 2,028 | MSCHE |
| Centenary University | Hackettstown, Long Valley, Parsippany, Edison, and Pleasantville | 1867 | Private | Master's | 1,498 | MSCHE |
| Drew University | Madison | 1867 | Private | Master's | 2,092 | MSCHE |
| Fairleigh Dickinson University | Madison, Florham Park, Teaneck, and Hackensack | 1942 | Private | Master's | 10,108 | MSCHE |
| Felician University | Lodi and Rutherford | 1942 | Private | Master's | 2,148 | MSCHE |
| Georgian Court University | Lakewood | 1908 | Private | Master's | 1,962 | MSCHE |
| Monmouth University | West Long Branch | 1933 | Private | Research university | 5,027 | MSCHE |
| Princeton University | Princeton | 1746 | Private | Research university | 8,842 | MSCHE |
| Rider University | Lawrence | 1865 | Private | Master's | 4,054 | MSCHE |
| Saint Elizabeth University | Morris Twp. and Florham Park | 1899 | Private | Master's | 1,122 | MSCHE |
| St. Peter's University | Jersey City | 1872 | Private | Master's | 3,430 | MSCHE |
| Seton Hall University | South Orange, Newark, and Nutley | 1856 | Private | Research university | 9,623 | MSCHE |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken | 1870 | Private | Research university | 9,314 | MSCHE |

### County community colleges

New Jersey has a system of 18 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, Rowan College of South Jersey, 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 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.

### For-profit institutions

| School | Location | Founded | Control | Type | Enrollment | Accrediting or approving agency |
| Berkeley College | Newark, Woodland Park, Woodbridge, and New York City | 1931 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Master's | 2,625 | MSCHE |
| DeVry University | Iselin | 1931 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Baccalaureate | 95 | HLC |
| Divers Academy International | Erial | 1977 | Private | Certifications | 268 | |
| Eastern International College | Jersey City and Belleville | 1990 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Special focus | 387 | MSCHE |
| Eastwick College | Ramsey, Hackensack, Paterson, and Nutley | 1985 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Not classified | - | ACCSC |
| Jersey College | Teterboro, Ewing, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Fort Lauderdale | 2003 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Special focus | - | COE |
| Lincoln Technical Institute | Edison, Mahwah, Moorestown, Paramus, South Plainfield, Union, New Britain, Shelton, Columbia, Brockton, Lowell, Somerville, New York City, Allentown, Philadelphia (3 locations), and Lincoln | 1947 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Baccalaureate Associate's | 3,995 | ACICS |
| Strayer University | Piscataway | 1892 | Proprietary (for-profit) | Master's | 530 | MSCHE |
| University of Phoenix | Jersey City | - | Proprietary (for-profit) | Special focus institution | - | HLC |

## Independent religious schools
### Religious colleges

| School | Location | Founded | Control | Type | Enrollment | Accrediting or approving agency |
| Assumption College for Sisters | Denville | 1953 | Private | Associates | 40 | MSCHE, NJCHE |
| Pillar College | Zarephath (Franklin Twp.) and Newark | 1908 | Private | Special focus institution | 241 | MSCHE |

### Christian theological seminaries

Theological schools are typically classified as "Special Topic Institutions" by the Carnegie Foundation.
| School | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Accrediting or approving agency | Notes |
| Drew Theological School | Madison | 1867 | United Methodist Church | ATS, MSCHE | 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, MSCHE | 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, MSCHE | Second-oldest seminary in the United States and second largest theological library collection in the world behind only the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City |

### Talmudic schools

| School | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Accrediting or approving agency | Notes |
| Bais Medrash Toras Chesed | Lakewood | - | - | AARTS | - |
| Beth Medrash Govoha | Lakewood | 1943 | Haredi Orthodox Judaism | AARTS | - |
| Mesivta Keser Torah | Belmar | - | - | AARTS | - |
| Rabbi Jacob Joseph School | Edison and New York City | - | - | AARTS | - |
| Rabbinical College of America | Morristown | 1973 | Jewish (Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic) | AARTS | Rabbinical college, also offers orthodox day school for boys and girls and summer programs |
| Talmudical Academy of Central New Jersey | Howell | 1972 | Orthodox Jewish | AARTS | Includes an orthodox yeshiva high school and rabbinical college |
| Yeshivas Be'er Yitzchok | Elizabeth | - | - | AARTS | - |
| Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Leyma | Linden | - | - | (pending) | - |
| Yeshiva Toras Chaim | Lakewood | - | - | AARTS | - |
| Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah | Lakewood | - | - | AARTS | - |