We’re home to some top-tier New Jersey colleges and universities that contend with schools across the country. No matter what size campus or type of housing your teen’s looking for, there are so many options in NJ. But where should she go? Does she want a big school? Is she likely to be accepted? Is it affordable? In many cases, she can get discounted in-state tuition at New Jersey colleges. We’ve rounded up a list of New Jersey colleges and universities and found the stats (see pg. 98 for an explanation of the numbers) that’ll help with your search.
BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE
Bloomfield
Private
• Annual tuition: $30,310
• Room and board: $12,300-13,700
• Undergrad enrollment: 1,839
• Acceptance rate: 64 percent
• Graduation rate: 13 percent
• Retention rate: 63 percent
• Fun fact: Bloomfield offers a 25 percent tuition discount to Wakefern (the company that owns Shoprite) employees and their dependents.
CALDWELL UNIVERSITY
Caldwell
Private
• Annual tuition: $33,990
• Room and board: $12,415
• Undergrad enrollment: 1,603
• Acceptance rate: 64 percent
• Graduation rate: 45 percent
• Retention rate: 84 percent
• Fun fact: The university’s doctoral program in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the first of its kind in the state.
CENTENARY UNIVERSITY
Hackettstown
Private
• Annual tuition: $32,572
• Room and board: $7,910 (no meal plan), $11,788 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 1,369
• Acceptance rate: 87 percent
• Graduation rate: 51 percent
• Retention rate: 78 percent
• Fun fact: Centenary offers a Bachelor of Science in Equine Studies.
COLLEGE OF SAINT ELIZABETH
Morristown
Private
• Annual tuition: $32,250
• Room and board: $12,744 (no meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 757
• Acceptance rate: 65 percent
• Graduation rate: 33 percent
• Retention rate: 68 percent
• Fun fact: CSE went coed in fall 2016, which is why applications doubled that semester.
DREW UNIVERSITY
Madison
Private
• Annual tuition: $38,668
• Room and board: $14,672
• Undergrad enrollment: 1,537
• Acceptance rate: 63 percent
• Graduation rate: 59 percent
• Retention rate: 85 percent
• Fun fact: Drew lowered tuition costs by 20 percent back to its 2010 rate last year.
FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY (FLORHAM CAMPUS)
Madison
Private
• Annual tuition: $42,096
• Room and board: $10,896-21,722
• Undergrad enrollment: 2,747
• Acceptance rate: 84 percent
• Graduation rate: 39 percent
• Retention rate: 81 percent
• Fun fact: The campus landscape was planned by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed New York City’s Central Park.
FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY (METROPOLITAN CAMPUS)
Teaneck
Private
• Annual tuition: $39,686
• Room and board: $10,854-20,982
• Undergrad enrollment: 5,467
• Acceptance rate: 88 percent
• Graduation rate: 30 percent
• Retention rate: 74 percent
• Fun fact: FDU has sister campuses in Canada and England.
FELICIAN UNIVERSITY
Lodi and Rutherford
Private
• Annual tuition: $32,550
• Room and board: $11,710-20,680
• Undergrad enrollment: 1,626
• Acceptance rate: 79 percent
• Graduation rate: 26 percent
• Retention rate: 76 percent
• Fun fact: Felician is the only Franciscan university in NJ.
GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY
Lakewood
Private
• Annual tuition: $32,050
• Room and board: $11,200-14,000
• Undergrad enrollment: 1,613
• Acceptance rate: 69 percent
• Graduation rate: 28 percent
• Retention rate: 72 percent
• Fun fact: Georgian Court was built on the former estate of railroad tycoon George Jay Gould.
KEAN UNIVERSITY
Union
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $12,347.50
• Room and board: $14,470 (no meal plan), $18,414 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 11,984
• Acceptance rate: 82 percent
• Graduation rate: 22 percent
• Retention rate: 76 percent
• Fun fact: Campus is home to the Liberty Hall Museum, a historic landmark chock-full of
artifacts from the American Revolution.
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY
West Long Branch
Private
• Annual tuition: $38,880
• Room and board: $14,520
• Undergrad enrollment: 4,706
• Acceptance rate: 74 percent
• Graduation rate: 57 percent
• Retention rate: 79 percent
• Fun fact: Monmouth was selected by The Princeton Review as a 2016 Green College, thanks to sustainability efforts like constructing energy-efficient buildings.
MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY
Montclair
Public
• Annual in-state tuition: $13,073
• Room and board: $10,992-17,486
• Undergrad enrollment: 16,852
• Acceptance rate: 71 percent
• Graduation rate: 42 percent
• Retention rate: 80 percent
• Fun fact: Montclair was the first NJ state school to offer master’s degrees.
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY
Jersey City
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $12,051.60
• Room and board: $7,726.80-10,874.20 (no meal plan), $12,138.10-15,885.50 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 6,508
• Acceptance rate: 92 percent
• Graduation rate: 13 percent
• Retention rate: 77 percent
• Fun fact: NJCU was initially founded in 1927 as a training school for teachers.
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Newark
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $17,338
• Room and board: $13,600
• Undergrad enrollment: 8,483
• Acceptance rate: 61 percent
• Graduation rate: 28 percent
• Retention rate: 84 percent
• Fun fact: Ninety-eight percent of faculty hold the highest degrees in their fields.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Princeton
Private
• Annual tuition: $51,870
• Room and board: $27,020
• Undergrad enrollment: 5,394
• Acceptance rate: 6 percent
• Graduation rate: 89 percent
• Retention rate: 98 percent
• Fun fact: Eighty-two percent of recent seniors graduated with no debt thanks to Princeton’s no-loan policy, which replaces student loans with grant aid that doesn’t need to be paid back.
RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
Mahwah
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $14,374.40
• Room and board: $11,940 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 5,618
• Acceptance rate: 57 percent
• Graduation rate: 60 percent
• Retention rate: 86 percent
• Fun fact: Ramapo is the smallest public college in New Jersey.
RIDER UNIVERSITY
Lawrenceville
Private
• Annual tuition: $43,720
• Room and board: $10,020-13,280 (no meal plan), $15,390-18,810 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 4,094
• Acceptance rate: 67 percent
• Graduation rate: 55 percent
• Retention rate: 80 percent
• Fun fact: Founded in 1865 as Trenton Business College, Rider was established to train leaders in the industrialized post-Civil War economy.
ROWAN UNIVERSITY
Glassboro
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $14,000
• Room and board: $14,603
• Undergrad enrollment: 15,401
• Acceptance rate: 69 percent
• Graduation rate: 48 percent
• Retention rate: 85 percent
• Fun fact: Since its founding in 1923, Rowan evolved from a teacher’s college to a regional university.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (CAMDEN)
Camden
Public
• Annual in-state tuition: $11,999
• Room and board: $13,450
• Undergrad enrollment: 5,489
• Acceptance rate: 69 percent
• Graduation rate: 25 percent
• Retention rate: 88 percent
• Fun fact: Rutgers-Camden is New Jersey’s first and only Purple Heart University thanks to its service to military veterans.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (NEWARK)
Newark
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $14,409
• Room and board: $13,536 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 8,551
• Acceptance rate: 64 percent
• Graduation rate: 37 percent
• Retention rate: 84 percent
• Fun fact: Rutgers-Newark was recently rated the most diverse campus in the country by US News and World Report.
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (NEW BRUNSWICK)
New Brunswick
Public
• Annual in-state tuition: $11,886
• Room and board: $12,706
• Undergrad enrollment: 35,641
• Acceptance rate: 58 percent
• Graduation rate: 60 percent
• Retention rate: 94 percent
• Fun fact: Rutgers-New Brunswick is a member of the Big Ten Conference (the oldest D1 college athletics conference in the country), as well as the Big Ten Academic Alliance, made up of 14 US research universities.
SAINT PETER’S UNIVERSITY
Jersey City
Private
• Annual tuition: $36,386
• Room and board: $9,902-13,524
• Undergrad enrollment: 2,637
• Acceptance rate: 91 percent
• Graduation rate: 38 percent
• Retention rate: 82 percent
• Fun fact: Saint Peter’s is the only Jesuit college or university of all New Jersey colleges.
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
South Orange
Private
• Annual tuition: $41,460
• Room and board: $10,084-23,024
• Undergrad enrollment: 5,969
• Acceptance rate: 73 percent
• Graduation rate: 56 percent
• Retention rate: 85 percent
• Fun fact: International Business Times named Seton Hall one of the top five universities for undergraduate internships thanks to its 17,000+ opportunities.
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Hoboken
Private
• Annual tuition and fees: $54,014
• Room and board: $15,770
• Undergrad enrollment: 3,123
• Acceptance rate: 44 percent
• Graduation rate: 42 percent
• Retention rate: 94 percent
• Fun fact: Ninety-six percent of the 2018 graduating class landed jobs or grad school acceptances within six months of graduation.
STOCKTON UNIVERSITY
Galloway
Public
• Annual in-state tuition: $13,979
• Room and board: $8,276 (no meal plan), $12,326 (meal plan)
• Undergrad enrollment: 8,275
• Acceptance rate: 82 percent
• Graduation rate: 54 percent
• Retention rate: 87 percent
• Fun fact: Like few other New Jersey colleges, campus is involved in the surrounding shore landscape with facilities like the Marine Science and Environmental Field Station, Coastal Research Center and an on-campus outdoor research lab.
THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY (TCNJ)
Ewing
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $16,571.20
• Room and board: $13,536
• Undergrad enrollment: 6,955
• Acceptance rate: 48 percent
• Graduation rate: 73 percent
• Retention rate: 94 percent
• Fun fact: Housing is guaranteed for two years for new full-time, first-year students.
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY
Wayne
Public
• Annual in-state tuition and fees: $13,060
• Room and board: $6,790-9,380 (no meal plan), $10,770-14,922 (meal plan)
• Enrollment: 8,838
• Acceptance rate: 92 percent
• Graduation rate: 27 percent
• Retention rate: 77 percent
• Fun fact: William Paterson is the third oldest public institution in the state.
Tuition, room and board costs and fun fact information was obtained from the most recent school data published on the New Jersey colleges and universities’ websites. All enrollment, acceptance, graduation and retention stats were collected from the National Center for Education Statistics (nces.ed.gov). Graduation rate reflects the percentage of full-time bachelor’s students who began in fall 2011 and graduated in four years. Retention rate reflects the percentage of first-year students who began their studies at these New Jersey colleges in fall 2016 and returned in fall 2017.
