page_title: List of colleges and universities in New Jersey
section_title: County community colleges
hierarchical_section_title: List of colleges and universities in New Jersey / Colleges and universities / County community colleges
caption_attribution_description: Formerly a Roman Catholic seminary called Don Bosco College. Now Sussex County Community College in Newton, New Jersey.
context_page_description: As of 2014, the State of New Jersey recognizes and licenses 66 institutions of higher education through its Commission on Higher Education. These institutions include four public research universities, eight state colleges and universities, fourteen private colleges and universities, nineteen county colleges, fourteen religious institutions, and eight for-profit proprietary schools.
  As of July of 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.
context_section_description: 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 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.
caption: Sussex County's freeholders purchased Don Bosco College, a Roman Catholic seminary, for its community college campus in 1989.
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