About Ramapo College of New Jersey

Ramapo College of New Jersey (RCNJ) is a public advanced arts university in Mahwah, New Jersey. It is share of New Jersey’s public system of well along education. As of the spring 2018 semester, there were a sum of 5,685 students enrolled at the college, including 483 graduate students.

Mahwah is the northernmost and largest municipality by geographic area (26.19 square miles (67.8 km2)) in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population of the township was 25,890, an mass of 1,828 (+7.6%) from the 24,062 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in point increased by 6,157 (+34.4%) from the 17,905 counted in the 1990 Census. The name “Mahwah” is derived from the Lenape language word “mawewi” which means “Meeting Place” or “Place Where Paths Meet”.

The Place that is now Mahwah was originally formed as Hohokus Township upon April 9, 1849, from portions of the former Franklin Township (now Wyckoff). While known as Hohokus Township, territory was taken to form Orvil Township (on January 1, 1886; remainder of township is now Waldwick), Allendale (November 10, 1894), Upper Saddle River (November 22, 1894), and Ramsey (March 10, 1908). On November 7, 1944, the Place was incorporated by an deed of the New Jersey Legislature as the Township of Mahwah, based on the results of a referendum held that day, replacing Hohokus Township. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Mahwah as its ninth best place to conscious in its 2008 rankings of the “Best Places To Live” in New Jersey.