List of colleges and universities in New Jersey
School Location Founded Control Type Enrollment Accrediting or approving agency
Bloomfield College Bloomfield 1868 Private Baccalaureate 2,156 MSCHE
Caldwell University Caldwell 1939 Private Master 's 2,284 MSCHE
Centenary University Hackettstown , Long Valley , Parsippany , and Edison 1867 Private Master 's 3,000+ MSCHE
Divers Academy International Erial 1977 Private Certifications 268
Drew University Madison 1867 Private Master 's 2,369 MSCHE
Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison , Florham Park , Teaneck , and Hackensack 1942 Private Master 's 12,000+ MSCHE
Felician University Lodi and Rutherford 1942 Private Master 's 2,040 MSCHE
Georgian Court University Lakewood 1908 Private Master 's 1,772 MSCHE
Monmouth University West Long Branch 1933 Private Master 's 6,494 MSCHE
Princeton University Princeton 1746 Private Research university 8,010 MSCHE
Rider University Lawrence 1865 Private Master 's 5,790 MSCHE
Saint Elizabeth University ( formerly College of Saint Elizabeth ) Morris Twp . and Florham Park 1899 Private Master 's 2,044 MSCHE
St. Peter 's University Jersey City 1881 Private Master 's 2,987 MSCHE
Seton Hall University South Orange 1856 Private Research university 9,745 MSCHE
Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken 1870 Private Research university 5,260 MSCHE
Colleges and universities -- Private colleges and universities
, 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, eight state colleges and universities, fourteen private colleges and universities (two of which are classified as research universities), nineteen county colleges, fourteen religious institutions, and eight for-profit proprietary schools. 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. 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, the 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 Universitys campus in Newark.