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Fairleigh Dickinson University is New Jersey's largest private institution with 12,000+ students. The institution has two main campuses located in New Jersey: the College at Florham in Madison, which is centered on the former estate of Florence Vanderbilt and Hamilton Twombly; and the Metropolitan Campus located close to New York City and spanning the Hackensack River in Teaneck and Hackensack. It also has two international campuses, one in Vancouver, British Columbia, and another in Wroxton, England, known as Wroxton College. The Metropolitan Campus has over 9,000 students enrolled, just over 6,500 of them being undergraduate; the College at Florham has about 3,100 students, around 2,500 of which are undergraduates. In 1965, Fairleigh Dickinson University acquired the Wroxton Abbey, now home to Wroxton College, from Trinity College, Oxford becoming the first American university to own and operate its own campus in England, and the first to own and operate a campus outside the United States. In 2007, the university began offering degree programs at a new campus in the downtown neighborhood of Yaletown in Vancouver, British Columbia named FDU-Vancouver.
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