Largest New Jersey Colleges

Rutgers University-New Brunswick is the largest New Jersey college with 50,637 students. The percentage of online students is 7.42% at the school.

Montclair State University with 21,784 students and Rowan University with 19,535 students are following it in the largetst New Jersey college ranking.

For the largest college ranking, we exclude colleges with more than 50% of online students. Instead, you can check them at the largest New Jersey online colleges.

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Rutgers University-New Brunswick is the largest school with 50,637 students and Montclair State University has the second largest population with 21,784 students. We note again that colleges with more than 50% of online students are excluded for the ranking.

Rutgers University-New Brunswick stay at first place of the largest college ranking since last year. Montclair State University also maintained its second place in the ranking.

The average undergraduate tuition & fees of the schools is $33,826 and graduate tuition & fees is $29,158 for the academic year 2023-2024.

The average acceptance rate is 75.54% and the average SAT score is 1,227 at the schools.

The following table compares the tuition and other academic characteristics between 10 Largest New Jersey Colleges With Most Students.

Table. Largest New Jersey Colleges With Most Students Comparison
	School Name	Total Population	Undergraduate Enrollment	Graduation Enrollment	Men Enrollment	Women Enrollment	Online Enrollment	Students to Faculty Ratio
1 -	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ Public, four-years	50,637 226	36,344	14,293	23,354	27,283	3,758	15 to 1
2 -	Montclair State University Montclair, NJ Public, four-years	21,784 779	17,290	4,494	8,204	13,580	2,223	17 to 1
3 -	Rowan University Glassboro, NJ Public, four-years	19,535 143	15,231	4,304	9,611	9,924	2,486	16 to 1
4 -	Kean University Union, NJ Public, four-years	12,884 1,180	10,845	2,039	4,638	8,246	1,292	16 to 1
5 1	New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ Public, four-years	12,332 680	9,019	3,313	8,812	3,520	709	15 to 1
6 1	Rutgers University-Newark Newark, NJ Public, four-years	11,017 2,214	7,511	3,506	5,196	5,821	946	13 to 1
7 1	Seton Hall University South Orange, NJ Private, four-years	9,623 191	6,012	3,611	4,040	5,583	1,084	14 to 1
8 6	Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ Private, four-years	9,314 2,057	4,070	5,244	6,581	2,733	1,079	11 to 1
9 2	Stockton University Galloway, NJ Public, four-years	9,080 813	8,138	942	3,416	5,664	602	16 to 1
10 1	William Paterson University of New Jersey Wayne, NJ Public, four-years	9,070 565	6,604	2,466	3,182	5,888	3,400	15 to 1
	Average	16,528	12,106	4,421	7,703	8,824	1,758	15 to 1

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