Education
Bergen has several colleges and universities:
- Bergen Community College – Paramus
- Fairleigh Dickinson University – Teaneck and Hackensack
- Felician College – Lodi and Rutherford
- Saint Peter's College – Englewood Cliffs
- Ramapo College – Mahwah
Bergen has some 45 public high schools, see this list. It also has at least 23 private high schools, see this list.
Bergen County Academies, the county's public magnet high school in Hackensack, is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best high schools in the United States. According to 2011 Newsweek statistics, Bergen County Academies students registered an average SAT score of 2100, the second highest of any U.S. high school; overall, Newsweek ranked BCA 23rd nationally and second in New Jersey. Bloomberg Businessweek cites Bergen County Academies as New Jersey's best high school.
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—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“One of the benefits of a college education is, to show the boy its little avail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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