About the Commission
The New Jersey Commission on Higher
Education, established by the Higher
Education Restructuring Act of 1994, provides coordination,
planning, policy development, and advocacy for the state's higher
education system. The Commission is also responsible for institutional
licensure and the administration of the Educational Opportunity
Fund and other programs.
The Commission serves as the principal
advocate for an integrated system of higher education which provides
a broad scope of higher education programs and services. The
system includes both 31 public and 32 independent institutions
and enrolls over 385,000 full- and part-time credit-seeking
students statewide.
The 31 public colleges and universities
are comprised of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey;
the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; the New
Jersey Institute of Technology; 4 state colleges and 5 state
universities; and 19 community colleges. The 32 independent institutions
include 15 senior colleges and universities with a public mission,
2 independent two-year religious colleges, 9 rabbinical schools
and theological seminaries and 6 proprietary institutions with
degree-granting authority.
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