Located in a thriving urban environment, the NJCU campus experience provides world-class experiential learning guided by expert NJCU faculty.
Since the date of its charter by the New Jersey Legislature in 1927, the institution known today as New Jersey City University has been evolving as a place of higher learning.
Opened in 1929 as the New Jersey State Normal School at Jersey City, the institution was renamed New Jersey State Teachers College at Jersey City in 1935 and Jersey City State College in 1958, becoming a liberal arts institution in 1968. In 1998, the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education approved a change of institutional status and accepted the present name, New Jersey City University.
Although the founding principles and mission of this urban institution -- access and excellence -- have not changed since the first day of class over 80 years ago, New Jersey City University’s physical presence has changed dramatically. The size of the campus has expanded six-fold; the number of buildings and facilities has grown from one structure to 26; the academic focus has blossomed from normal school training to 42 undergraduate degree major programs and 22 graduate degree programs offered in three colleges; and the student body has grown and diversified from 330 area residents to about 10,000 students from across New Jersey, the United States, and 50 countries around the globe.
NJCU continues to grow and evolve today. The need for ongoing capital improvement and construction is clear. Outstanding new facilities would further enhance the learning, teaching, and working environment of the University for future generations. To remain competitive New Jersey City University must follow a plan for imaginative investment in the physical future as well as the intellectual future of the University. By doing so, the University will ensure that the building blocks of knowledge and success will stand securely within the steel and concrete structures that support them.
New Jersey City University is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the National Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.
New Jersey City University is also an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and the National Association of Schools of Music.
The BSN program is accredited by the National League for Nursing.
The Business Administration Program is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.
Education programs are approved by the New Jersey State Department of Education. It is also approved by the American Association of University Women.
The University is a member of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Council of Education, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the National Association of Schools of Music, The New Jersey Association of Colleges and Universities, and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
The graduate division is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The mission of New Jersey City University is to provide a diverse population with an excellent university education. The University is committed to the improvement of the educational, intellectual, cultural, socio-economic, and physical environment of the surrounding urban region and beyond.
