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| Motto | Your potential is our promise. |
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| Type | Privatefor-profit college |
| Established | 1931 (as The Berkeley School) |
| President | Diane Recinos |
| Provost | Patricia Greer |
Academic staff | 77 FT/273 PT (2025) |
| Students | 4,128 (2025) |
| Undergraduates | 3,536 (2025) |
| Postgraduates | 592 (2025) |
| Location | , United States |
| Campus | Urban and suburban |
| Colors | Official Berkeley Blue and White |
Sporting affiliations | USCAA Division I/NACIA |
| Mascot | Berkeley Knight |
| Website | berkeleycollege.edu |
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Berkeley College is aprivatefor-profit college with campuses inNew York City,New Jersey, and online. It was founded in 1931 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificate programs. Berkeley College isaccredited by theMiddle States Commission on Higher Education. Its administrative headquarters are inWoodland Park, New Jersey.
Berkeley College offerscertificate,associate's,bachelor's, andgraduate degree programs. The college serves a diverse student body of more than 4,000 students through The Larry L. Luing School of Business, School of Professional Studies, and School of Health Studies, on-site and online.
Berkeley College launched its first graduate degree program, aMaster of Business Administration in 2015.[1] Through Berkeley College's Corporate Learning Partnership, the MBA program partners with organizations like Affinity Federal Credit Union to offer master's degree and continuing education programs to employees.[2] Berkeley College launched an MBA through the college's Larry L. Luing School of Business in Manhattan, NY, that was offered on-site at the Midtown Manhattan campus beginning in April 2022.
Berkeley College announced the launch of aMaster of Science in Nursing program through its School of Health Studies in December 2021. With this program approval, Berkeley College – New Jersey has the only Licensed Practical Nurse-Bachelor of Science in Nursing-Master of Science in Nursing (LPN-BSN-MSN) pathway program in the State of New Jersey.
Berkeley has offered distance education courses since 1998.[3] Berkeley has been ranked among the Best College for Online Bachelor's Degree Programs for 13 consecutive years.
The college has a New York City Campus inMidtown Manhattan, and three campuses in New Jersey, inNewark,Woodbridge, andWoodland Park.[4] The school also offers programs through Berkeley College Online.[5]
A number of Berkeley campuses have closed over the past decade. In 2014, the Berkeley College Extension Center on Williams Street inNew York City was closed.[6] Two years later, the college closed theClifton, New Jersey, campus.[7] In 2018, the Dover campus was closed[7] with the Brooklyn campus closed the following year.[6] Berkeley announced the closure of the White Plains campus in the fall of 2021 and consolidated it with its Manhattan campus.[8][9] Berkeley announced the closure of the Paramus campus in spring 2022 and consolidated it with its Woodland Park campus.[7]
Dover Business College was avocational school andtechnical college with locations inDover andClifton,New Jersey. Dover Business College, which was founded in 1958 and accredited in 1974, was a private institution with a focus on preparing students for careers in healthcare, information technology, and business. The college awarded more than 2,800 diplomas in its last five years.[10]
The school was merged into Berkeley College on July 1, 2013. Many of the programs that were offered at Dover Business College are now available at Berkeley College via the college's School of Health Studies, which was established to coincide with the merger.[11]
In 2015, Berkeley College was named in a New York City Consumer Agency investigation, along with 3 other for-profit schools, concerning student dropout and loan default rates, as well as how the college recruits new students.[12]
In 2018, Berkeley College was named in a lawsuit filed by the New York Department of Consumer Affairs for deceptive and predatory practices.[13] The lawsuit description includes (1) misleading students about financial aid, including federal financial aid; (2) tricking students into taking out loans directly from Berkeley College; (3) deceiving students about institutional grants; (4) deceiving students about transfer credits, majors, and careers; and (5) violating local debt collection laws by concealing its identity from former students when collecting debt, including debt that is not owed. Berkeley College denied the allegations contained in the DCA's lawsuit and denied that it violated the New York City Consumer Protection Law.[14]
In 2022, theNew York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) reached a settlement with Berkeley College[15] in connection with DCWP's 2018 lawsuit. The settlement requires Berkeley to, among other things, stop collection on any outstanding debt incurred before January 1, 2019, which Berkeley estimates is valued at a total of $20 million;[16] pay $350,000 to the city, which DCWP plans to use to pay restitution to certain impacted consumers; and instruct its third-party debt collectors to request that credit reporting agencies remove all consumer account information related to student debt owed to Berkeley incurred before January 1, 2019.
In 2019, Berkeley College was sued by former staffers at theWhite Plains, New York campus, who claimed they faced "a gender-related hostile work environment" and "wrongful termination."[17] In July 2021, theSouthern District of New York granted defendants' motion for summary judgment and dismissed the lawsuit against Berkeley College and all individual defendants. Thereafter, plaintiffs appealed their loss,[18] and, in November 2022, theU.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit affirmed the judgment of the SDNY.[citation needed]
Berkeley College Knights Athletics includes Basketball and Soccer teams. They compete in theUnited States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) and the North American Conference for Intercollegiate Athletics.[19] Chris Christiansen, Head Coach of the Men's Basketball team for 22 years, was inducted into the USCAA Hall of Fame, Class of 2023.[20] Berkeley College, formerly a Division II athletic college, was promoted by the United States Collegiate Athletic Association to a Division I school for the 2024–2025 academic year.[21]
The Bears will compete in the North American Conference for Intercollegiate Athletics (NACIA) against schools including Bryant and Stratton College (Syracuse, Buffalo, Albany, Ohio and Rochester campuses), Berkeley College, Five Towns College and Villa Maria College.
