South Orange, NJ - Hackensack University Health Network and Seton Hall University will announce Thursday that they have signed a memorandum of understanding to start a private four-year school of medicine to be located on the campus of the former Roche headquarters in North Jersey.
The medical school will be the anchor tenant of the 119-acre property that resides on Route 3 and straddles Nutley and Clifton with a view of New York City. It is approximately 5 miles from both Hackensack and Seton Hall.
The organizers of the project aim to make the school a conduit for a world-class research facility that will attract researchers and pharmaceutical companies of all sizes to the campus.
The goal is to have the first class of approximately 125 to 150 students enter in the fall of 2017; the official name of the institution is still to be determined.
It is too soon to know just how many jobs will be created because of the vast scope of the project, but Hackensack and Seton Hall officials said the school alone could create 400 to 500 jobs. And hundreds of other jobs could be created through the other outlets on the campus, both said.
The organizers of the project aim to make the school a conduit for a world-class research facility that will attract researchers and pharmaceutical companies of all sizes to the campus.
The goal is to have the first class of approximately 125 to 150 students enter in the fall of 2017; the official name of the institution is still to be determined.
It is too soon to know just how many jobs will be created because of the vast scope of the project, but Hackensack and Seton Hall officials said the school alone could create 400 to 500 jobs. And hundreds of other jobs could be created through the other outlets on the campus, both said.
