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S3359 • 2026

Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.

Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Turner, Shirley K.
Last action
2026-02-05
Official status
Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.

Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.

What This Bill Does

  • Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
  • Topic: Higher Education Fiscal note: This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-05 New Jersey Legislature

    Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Higher Education Committee

Official Summary Text

Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke proprietary school's license to award academic degrees if school fails to achieve certain minimum graduation rates.
Topic:
Higher Education
Fiscal note:
This bill has not been certified by OLS for a fiscal note.

Current Bill Text

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S3359

SENATE, No. 3359

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 5, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

SYNOPSIS

���� Directs Secretary of Higher Education to revoke
proprietary school�s license to award academic degrees if school fails to
achieve certain minimum graduation rates.�

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

��

An Act
concerning the graduation rates of certain proprietary
schools and supplementing chapter 3B of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� a.���� As used in this
section, �proprietary school� means a postsecondary institution in New Jersey
that is operated for profit and which has been authorized to offer licensed
degree programs.

���� b.��� (1)� Except as otherwise
provided in subsection c. of this section, the Secretary of Higher Education
shall revoke a proprietary school�s license to award academic degrees if, by
the completion of the sixth full academic year that occurs following the effective
date of this act, the school fails to achieve a six-year graduation rate of at
least 75 percent for full-time students who are enrolled in a four-year degree
program.

���� (2)�� Except as otherwise
provided in subsection c. of this section, the Secretary of Higher Education
shall revoke a proprietary school�s license to award academic degrees if, by
the completion of the sixth full academic year that occurs following the
effective date of this act, the school fails to achieve a three-year graduation
rate of at least 75 percent for full-time students who are enrolled in a
two-year degree program.

���� c.���� If, at the completion
of the fifth full academic year that occurs following the effective date of
this act, a proprietary school is not on track to achieve the minimum
graduation rates specified in subsection b. of this section, but is making
sufficient progress toward achieving the rates, the secretary, at the
discretion of the secretary, may allow the school additional time to achieve
the rates before revoking the school�s license to award academic degrees.

���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill stipulates that the
Secretary of Higher Education is to revoke a proprietary school�s license to
award academic degrees if the school fails to achieve a six-year graduation
rate of at least 75 percent for full-time students enrolled in a four-year
degree program by the completion of the sixth full academic year that occurs
following the bill�s effective date.� The bill further stipulates that the
secretary is to revoke a proprietary school�s license to award academic degrees
if the school fails to achieve a three-year graduation rate of at least 75
percent for full-time students enrolled in a two-year degree program by the
completion of the sixth full academic year that occurs following the bill�s
effective date.� However, if after five years, a proprietary school is not on
track to achieve the minimum graduation rates for full-time students, but is
making sufficient progress toward achieving that goal, the secretary, at the
discretion of the secretary, may allow the school additional time to achieve
the rates before revoking the school�s license to award academic degrees.