Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey.

Originally chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766, Rutgers is the eighth oldest college in the United States and one of the nine "Colonial Colleges" chartered before the American Revolution.

The college was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers a New York City landowner, philanthropist and former military officer, whose $5000  bond donation to the school allowed it to reopen after years of financial difficulty. 


For most of its existence, Rutgers was a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church and admitted only male students. The college expanded its role in research and instruction in agriculture, engineering, and science when it was named as the state's sole land grant college in 1864 under the  Act of 1862.

It gained university status in 1924 with the introduction of graduate education and further expansion.However, Rutgers evolved into a coeducational public research university after being designated "The State University of New Jersey" by the New Jersey Legislature in laws enacted in 1945 and 1956.

It is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities.Rutgers, however, remains something of a public-private hybrid, in particular retaining certain "private rights" against unilateral changes in its governance, name, and structure that the state might otherwise want to impose.

Rutgers has three campuses located throughout New Jersey: The New Brunswick campus in New Brunswick and adjacent the Newark campus and the Camden campus. The university has additional facilities elsewhere in New Jersey.

 Instruction is offered by 9,000 faculty members in 175 academic departments to over 45,000 undergraduate students and more than 20,000 graduate and professional students.

The University is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation,the Association of American Universities and the Universities Research Association

 Prior to 1982, separate liberal arts faculties existed in the several "residential colleges" Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston, University, and Cook colleges at Rutgers New Brunswick. In 1982, under president Edward J.the liberal arts faculties were centralized into one college, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but the residential colleges persisted for students, along with separate standards for admission, good standing, and graduation. 

Finally in the fall of 2007, the liberal arts residential colleges Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston, and University and Faculty of Arts and Sciences were merged into the new School of Arts and Sciences with one set of admissions criteria, curriculum and graduation requirements. Cook College, the residential science college, changed its name to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. The merger ended the 241-year history of Rutgers College as a distinct institution.

In 2013, most of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey was integrated with Rutgers University and, along with several existing Rutgers units, was reformed as Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.This merger attached New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to Rutgers University.

On June 20, 2012, the outgoing president of Rutgers University, Richard L. McCormick announced that Rutgers will "...integrate five acres along George Street between Seminary Place and Bishop Place into the College Avenue Campus."Much of this is land currently occupied by the New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

In 2013, Rutgers changed part of its  mater, "On the Banks of the Old ." Where the lyrics had formerly stated, "My father sent me to old Rutgers, and resolved that I should be a man," now they state, "From far and near we came to Rutgers, and resolved to learn all that we can

 The Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is a division of the university that serves as an umbrella organization for schools, centers, and institutes from Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. 

The organization was incorporated into the university following the 2013 merger of Rutgers and the.While its various facilities are spread across several locations statewide, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is considered a "campus" for certain organizational purposes, such as the appointment of a separate Chancellor.

 Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, New Jersey Medical School, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, College of Nursing, School of Nursing, School of Dental Medicine, School of Health Related Professions, the School







comprises nine schools and other research centers and institutes including; Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Institute for 
 
 of Public Health, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Environmental and the Occupational Health Sciences Institute. 

The programs are offered at different location sites across New Jersey in New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, and Scotch Plains.