General Practice Residency and AEGD Programs in New Jersey
New Jersey has 14 CODA-accredited advanced dental education programs in general dentistry, and all 14 are general practice residency (GPR) programs — no AEGD program is CODA-accredited here.
They span 13 cities, from Newark and Jersey City to Morristown and Summit.
Each is listed below with its institution, city, program type, current accreditation status, and the years of CODA's last and next accreditation visits, pulled from CODA's own program directory.
Read on for how a GPR differs from an AEGD in CODA's own words, and what comes after residency.
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At a glance
In New Jersey
Programs
14
With a program
Cities
13
Approval without Reporting Requirements
Fully approved
13 of 14
Every CODA-Accredited Program in New Jersey
Source: CODA program directory, index dated 2026-09-09. Status terms (“Approval without Reporting Requirements,” “Approval with Reporting Requirements,” “Initial Accreditation,” “Discontinued,” etc.) are CODA’s own.
Reading the List: Program Types and What New Jersey's Accreditation Statuses Mean
The Type column is CODA's own classification, not this site's.
CODA accredits two kinds of postdoctoral general dentistry program — the General Practice Residency (GPR) and Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) — and, for each, three formats: one-year programs, one-year programs with an optional second year, and two-year programs.
The length shown is the format CODA lists the program under, not a promise about any resident's schedule; confirm it with the program.
The status shown for each program is also CODA's term. "Approval (without Reporting Requirements)" is the classification CODA grants when a program "achieves or exceeds the basic requirements for accreditation." "Approval (with Reporting Requirements)" means CODA has identified specific deficiencies the program must correct within a set timeframe — it is not a warning to avoid the program. "Initial Accreditation" marks a program that has not yet graduated its first class.
The last- and next-visit years are CODA's accreditation-visit schedule, not anything set by the program.
For admissions requirements or program structure, contact the program directly, and confirm any program's current status with CODA before applying.
GPR or AEGD: The Difference in CODA's Own Words
Both program types are what CODA calls advanced dental education programs, and neither is one of the recognized dental specialties — a GPR or AEGD graduate practices as a general dentist.
CODA's accreditation standards give the two the same goal: programs "designed to provide training beyond the level of pre-doctoral education in oral health care" that "expand the scope and depth of the graduates' knowledge and skills to enable them to provide comprehensive oral health care to a wide range of population groups." Where the standards differ is setting.
A GPR must be sponsored or co-sponsored by a United States-based hospital, or by an educational institution or health care organization affiliated with an accredited hospital; its residents are appointed to the hospital's house staff, and one of its stated goals is to "function effectively within the hospital and other health care environments." The AEGD standards carry no hospital requirement and instead ask graduates to "function effectively and efficiently in multiple health care environments within interdisciplinary health care teams." New Jersey's current list happens to be all GPRs, which is a fact about which sponsors CODA has accredited here, not a statement about either format's value.
New Jersey has 14 accredited GPR and AEGD programs, compared with 48 in New York, 15 in Pennsylvania and 1 in Delaware nearby; for how residencies and the Match work wherever you apply, see our guide to dental residency and board certification.
After Residency in New Jersey
A GPR or AEGD is a postdoctoral year, not a license.
Graduates of programs at Veterans Affairs Medical Center/East Orange, Hackensack Meridian Health JFK University Medical Center and 12 other institutions who go on to practice in New Jersey need an active dentist license from the New Jersey State Board of Dentistry, and whether it expects postgraduate training before issuing one is the state's call — see New Jersey's dentist licensure requirements rather than any program's description.
Residents who train in East Orange, Edison, Englewood or one of the state's 10 other program cities and go on to practice in New Jersey can check dentist salary in New Jersey for state-level pay data and search current dentist jobs to see who's hiring now.
Where New Jersey's Programs Are
New Jersey's general practice residencies are concentrated in the state's hospital-dense northern and central corridor, with Newark alone home to two programs — one at a medical center and one at a university dental school.
Hackensack, Edison, and the Jersey City / New Brunswick / Neptune / Long Branch corridor each add a program tied to a hospital system, and East Orange, Englewood, Montclair, Morristown, Paterson and Summit round out the list with one program apiece, several sponsored by hospital dental departments and one by a Veterans Affairs medical center.
Sponsors range from a university dental school to hospital dental departments and a federal facility — the Institution column names each one, and the website links go to the sponsor's own page, which is where admissions details live.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many GPR and AEGD programs are in New Jersey?
New Jersey has 14 CODA-accredited postdoctoral general dentistry programs, all general practice residencies — there is no CODA-accredited AEGD program in the state.
They span 13 cities.
Each is listed above with its institution, city, program type and current CODA accreditation status.
CODA's own directory is the definitive, up-to-date source — confirm a program's status directly with CODA before applying.
What is the difference between a GPR and an AEGD?
Both are advanced dental education programs in general dentistry, accredited by CODA under separate standards that state the same goal: training beyond dental school toward comprehensive oral health care.
The GPR standards require hospital sponsorship or affiliation and place residents on the hospital's house staff; the AEGD standards have no hospital requirement and emphasize working across multiple health care environments in interdisciplinary teams.
Neither is a specialty — graduates practice as general dentists.
Ask each program how its own curriculum is structured.
What does "optional second year" mean on this list?
It is one of the three program formats CODA accredits for both GPRs and AEGDs: a one-year program, a one-year program with an optional second year that residents enroll in during their first year, and a two-year program that residents commit to from the start.
CODA lists the format each program is accredited under; whether a second year is offered in a given cycle, and how residents are selected for it, is a question for the program itself.
Do I have to complete a residency in New Jersey to practice as a dentist there?
No. CODA accreditation is national, so a GPR or AEGD completed in another state carries the same accreditation standing.
What New Jersey requires before it will license a dentist — including whether any postgraduate training is expected — is set by the state, not by a program, so see our New Jersey dentist licensure page and confirm with the state dental board before you plan around a residency.
Is every program on this list accredited?
Every program above is shown with the CODA accreditation status CODA had published for it as of 2026-09-09, the date this directory was last pulled from CODA's own program search. "Approval without Reporting Requirements" is CODA's standard fully-accredited standing; other status terms on this page — such as "Approval with Reporting Requirements," "Initial Accreditation," or "Discontinued" — mean something different, and a status can change after that date.
Confirm a program's current status directly with CODA before applying.
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Sourced from the CODA program directory (index dated 2026-09-09). Verified September 2026. Program details change. Confirm accreditation status, admission requirements and costs with the program and with CODA before applying.