Prominent private and parochial schools include Don Bosco Tech in Paterson, Academy of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, Bailey-Ellard in Madison, Morristown Beard and Delbarton in Morristown, Newark Academy in South Orange, and St. Benedict's and St. Vincent's Academies in Newark. Many of the schools are offering new degree programs to accommodate the growing fields of allied health and computers. Other schools are combining computer courses with communications and commercial art to create a degree in multimedia communications. Many of the colleges and universities in the Region are very well ranked and are quite competitive, accepting only high school graduates with superior test scores. The school with the largest enrollment is Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Major campuses are at New Brunswick and Newark.
Within Newark alone are four outstanding schools of higher education in a tightly confined area known as University Heights. The Newark Campus of Rutgers has over 9,000 matriculated students, and offers a wide range of classes, specialties and internships. NJIT is a public research university specializing in graduate and undergraduate programs in architecture, engineering, computer science and industrial management. The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Essex County College complete the concentration of higher education located at University Heights. The businesses themselves will then be the catalyst for continued economic development within the community through increased employment, better housing and a more positive image.