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Educating New Jersey

New Jersey has 18 Community Colleges—one near you. Whether you’re interested in earning your associate degree, starting at a Community College and then transferring to a four-year college or university, or pursuing an industry-valued credential to advance your career, we have the program for you.

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Why NJ’s Community Colleges?

Why NJ’s Community Colleges?

NJ’s Community Colleges provide high-quality, affordable education that changes lives by helping students reach their academic and career goals.

Our colleges enroll more than 180,000 New Jersey residents each year in credit, noncredit, and workforce courses at more than 70 campuses throughout the state—one near you—as well as through many study online opportunities. We offer early college programs for high school students and special supports to help adult learners.

Our Community Colleges also offer academic, athletic, cultural, and special interest clubs; mentoring and internship opportunities; and partnerships to help connect you with our state’s employers and four-year colleges and universities.

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Education for Everyone

NJ’s 18 Community Colleges are designed to meet the ever-changing educational needs of our great state’s residents.

Today, through more than 1,700 degree and certificate programs, as well as noncredit courses and workforce training programs, our colleges are helping students of all ages and backgrounds. We celebrate NJ’s incredible diversity across our campuses. Many of our students are the first in their families to attend college; more than half of the total undergraduate enrollment in our colleges come from minority and traditionally underrepresented populations.

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Prioritizing Equity and Student Success

Prioritizing Equity and Student Success

We prize equity and student success, and we commit to helping you access the resources you need to reach your goals. Our students go on to become leaders in their field—fulbright scholars, researchers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, entrepreneurs, athletes, performers, and more.

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Attend Community College for Free

The Community College Opportunity Grant (CCOG) makes community colleges affordable for New Jersians. If you’re eligible, you can attend Community College in New Jersey for free or at a reduced cost.

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Get Support With Paying for College

Get Support With Paying for College

HESAA, the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority provides NJ students and their families with information about financial aid, grants, scholarships, tax incentives, and loans to help students pursue their education beyond high school.

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Popular Majors at NJ’s Community Colleges

Aviation & Drones

Business

Culinary & Hospitality

Education

Engineering & Technology

Nursing & Health Science

Science & Mathematics

Social Work

Writing, Arts & Humanities

Creative Arts

Health Professions

Psychology

Journalism

Criminal Justice

Communications

Student & Alumni Spotlights

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I was a stay-at-home mom. Supply chain sparked my interest. My first class was like, ‘Define supply chain management in your own words.’ I thought to myself, ‘Oh Gosh, what I can think of… I’m a mom, yes, I’m a supply chain manager at home!’ I have to say that my associate’s degree to supply chain management was the best thing ever, and it really helped me grow as a person, as a mom, and gave me the opportunity to get back in the economy.

Maria Rawalpindiwala

Union College of Union County Graduate, Supply Chain Management, Class of 2022

Client Success Specialist, IMS Transport

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I always tell the students that I mentor now, there is no clean-cut pathway to different goals and avenues that you can achieve. It’s not always a linear path, and if you stay on the course and have good, supportive people behind you, you will succeed.

Monae Haskins, BSN, RN

Essex County College Graduate

Application System Analyst, Atlantic Health System

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Going into the medical assistant program was really the best thing for me. By getting real-world experience, learning about medicine, learning about healthcare, and getting to experience it first hand with the externship that was provided.

Rachel Shea

Camden County College Amuna

Certified/Registered Medical Assistant Program Graduate

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The STEM courses at Bergen Community Colleges were very challenging, which helped me transition to engineering courses. These challenging courses made me think differently, which helped me to improve my problem-solving skills, which will be indispensable in my future career as a chemical engineer.

Sebastian Lidwin

STEM Graduate, Bergen Community College

NJIT Transfer Student, Chemical Engineering

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Rowan College at Burlington County is definitely one of the best places that you can go to launch your career. I’ve found that the teachers are incredibly acceptable, and that they’re incredibly passionate about teaching students. They can also speak to their real-life experiences in the field. Its not that they’re completely out of touch with what’s going on in cyber security, because they’ve worked in the field, and they are working in the field.