The public institutions of higher education are the six state colleges; the county colleges; the public junior colleges; the New Jersey college of medicine and dentistry; the college of aeronautical and airspace science established in Atlantic County pursuant to chapter 285 of the laws of 1964; the industrial schools; Newark college of engineering; Rutgers, the state university; and any other public universities, colleges, county colleges and junior colleges now or hereafter established or authorized by law.
N.J.S. § 18A:62-1