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{{Short description|Public research university in New Jersey}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Rutgers University
 | native_name            = Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
 | image                  = Rutgers University seal.svg<!--The coat of arms or seal belong here. If you doubt it, look at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, etc. The 'logo' used more often belongs on the bottom, hence the 'logo' label.-->
 | image_upright          = .6
 | religious_affiliation  = Nonsectarian - historically [[Reformed Church in America|Dutch Reformed]]
 | motto                  = {{lang|la|Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra}} ([[Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "Sun of righteousness, shine also upon the West."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rutgers.edu/about/history/university-seal |title=Official Rutgers University Seal |publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=January 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125208/http://www.rutgers.edu/about/history/university-seal |archive-date=January 15, 2016 }}</ref>
 | established            = {{start date and age|1766|11|10}}
 | type                   = [[Private college]] (1766–1945) <br /> [[Public university|Public]] [[Land-grant university|land-grant]] [[research university]]
 | academic_affiliation   = {{hlist
|[[Association of American Universities|AAU]]
|[[Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities|CUMU]]
|[[Oak Ridge Associated Universities|ORAU]]
|[[Universities Research Association|URA]]
|[[National Sea Grant College Program|Sea-grant]]
|[[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program|Space-grant]]
}}
 | endowment              = $2.18 billion (2024)<br />(system-wide)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |title=U.S. and Canadian 2024 NCSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2024 Endowment Market Value, Change in Market Value from FY23 to FY24, and FY24 Endowment Market Values Per Full-time Equivalent Student |date=February 12, 2025 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) |access-date=February 12, 2025 |format=XLSX |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212074654/https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/nacubo1-nacubo-prd-dc8b/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2024-NCSE-Endowment-Market-Values-for-US-and-Canadian-Institutions-FINAL-Feb-12-2025.xlsx |archive-date=February 12, 2025 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
 | budget                 = $5.6 billion (2024–25)<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, [https://www.rutgers.edu/about/budget-facts" Fiscal Year 2024–2025 Budget Facts"], Retrieved January 14, 2025.</ref>
 | president              = [[William F. Tate IV]]
 | academic_staff         = 4,314<ref name="factbook" />
 | administrative_staff   = 6,757<ref name="factbook" />
 | students               = 68,942<ref name="Facts&Figures">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/facts-figures "Numbers, Statistics and Stories to Tell: Facts & Figures] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820042741/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/facts-figures |date=August 20, 2013 }}. Retrieved July 23, 2017.</ref>
 | undergrad              = 49,359<ref name="Facts&Figures"/>
 | postgrad               = 19,583<ref name="Facts&Figures"/>
 | city                   = [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]]–[[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]]
 | state                  = New Jersey
 | country                = United States
 | campus                 = Small city<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Rutgers&s=all&id=186380|title=IPEDS-Rutgers University|access-date=November 7, 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107121059/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Rutgers&s=all&id=186380|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{Convert|6088|acre|ha}}
 | former_names           = Queen's College<br />(1766–1825)<br />Rutgers College<br />(1825–1924)<br />Rutgers University<br /> (1924–1945)
 | sporting_affiliations  = {{hlist|[[NCAA Division I FBS]] – [[Big Ten Conference|Big Ten]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bigten.org/school-bio/big10-school-bio.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630094358/http://www.bigten.org/school-bio/big10-school-bio.html|archive-date=June 30, 2017|title=School Info Big Ten Conference Official Site|access-date=October 30, 2016}}</ref>|[[New Jersey Athletic Conference|NJAC]]|[[Continental Volleyball Conference|CVC]]}}
 | website                = {{URL|https://www.rutgers.edu/|rutgers.edu}}
 | logo                   = File:Rutgers_University_The_State_University_of_New_Jersey.png{{!}}class=skin-invert
 | logo_upright           = 1.1
 | colors                 = {{color box|#CC0033}} [[Scarlet (color)#School colors|Scarlet]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://identity.rutgers.edu/elements-system/colors |title=Colors &#124; Visual Identity System |access-date=August 1, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817003523/http://identity.rutgers.edu/elements-system/colors |archive-date=August 17, 2016 }}</ref>
 | free_label2            = Newspaper
 | free2                  = {{hlist|''[[The Daily Targum]]''|''The Observer''|''The Gleaner''}}
 | accreditation          = [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education|MSCHE]]
 | sports_nickname        = {{hlist|[[Rutgers Scarlet Knights|Scarlet Knights]]|[[Rutgers University-Camden|Scarlet Raptors]]|[[Rutgers University-Newark|Scarlet Raiders]]}}
 | mascot                 = Sir Henry, the Scarlet Knight<ref name=SirHenry>{{cite web|url=https://scarletknights.com/sports/2017/6/11/cheer-knight-html|title=Sir Henry, the Scarlet Knight|date=11 June 2017|accessdate=29 September 2024|publisher=Scarlet Knights}}</ref>
 | free_label             = Other campuses
 | free                   = {{hlist|[[Blackwood, New Jersey|Blackwood]]|[[Rutgers University-Camden|Camden]]|[[Rutgers University-Newark|Newark]]|[[Scotch Plains, New Jersey|Scotch Plains]]|[[Stratford, New Jersey|Stratford]]}}
}}

'''Rutgers University''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|ʌ|t|ɡ|ər|z}} {{respell|RUT|gərz}}), officially '''Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey''', is a [[Public university|public]] [[land-grant]] [[research university]] consisting of three campuses in [[New Jersey]]. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called '''Queen's College'''<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Revolutionary Roots |url=https://www.rutgers.edu/about/our-revolutionary-roots-history |access-date=2022-09-16 |website=rutgers.edu |language=en}}</ref> and was affiliated with the [[Reformed Church in America|Dutch Reformed Church]]. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after [[Princeton University]]), and one of nine [[colonial colleges]] that were chartered before the [[American Revolution]].<ref name="StoeckelColonialColleges">Stoeckel, Althea. [http://dmr.bsu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ConspectusH&CISOPTR=345&REC=1 "Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802032237/https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/ConspectusH/id/345 |date=August 2, 2022 }}, ''Conspectus of History'' (1976) 1(3):45–56.</ref><ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/227/1613.html Chapter XXIII. Education. § 13. Colonial Colleges] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020213819/http://www.bartleby.com/227/1613.html |date=October 20, 2013 }} in ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature''. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921; online edition, 2000).</ref>

In 1825, Queen's College was renamed '''Rutgers College'''<ref>Institutional Research and Planning, Factbook, [http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~oirap/OIRAP/fact9798/facthtml/almanac.html Almanac of Historical Facts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020200546/http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~oirap/OIRAP/fact9798/facthtml/almanac.html |date=October 20, 2013 }}, Accessed September 7, 2013</ref> in honor of Colonel [[Henry Rutgers]], whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.support.rutgers.edu/s/896/Foundation/Giveindex.aspx?pgid=1892 |title=Rutgers University – Colonel Henry Rutgers Society |publisher=Support.rutgers.edu |access-date=January 17, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801081323/http://www.support.rutgers.edu/s/896/Foundation/Giveindex.aspx?pgid=1892 |archive-date=August 1, 2016 }}</ref> For most of its existence, Rutgers was a [[Private university|private]] [[liberal arts college]]. It has evolved into a [[Mixed-sex education|coeducational]] public research university since being designated the State University of New Jersey by the [[New Jersey Legislature|state's legislature]] in 1945 and 1956.<ref name="RutgersLaw1956">State of New Jersey. New Jersey Statutes Annotated 18A:65–1 et seq. enacted by P.L. 1945, ch. 49, p. 115; P.L. 1956, ch. 61.</ref>

Rutgers has several distinct campuses. Since colonial times, Rutgers flagship campus and  historic core has been located along College Avenue at the [[College Avenue Campus]] in  [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]] as part of [[Rutgers University–New Brunswick]]. [[Rutgers University–New Brunswick]] consists of the Douglass campus, Cook campus, and both the [[Busch Campus of Rutgers University|Busch]] and [[Livingston Campus (Rutgers University)|Livingston]] campuses on the other side of the Raritan River in [[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway.]] Two other campuses are located at [[Rutgers University–Newark]], and [[Rutgers University–Camden]]. The university has additional facilities throughout the state, including oceanographic research facilities at the [[Jersey Shore]].<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/facts-figures Numbers, Statistics & Stories to Tell: Facts & Figures] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820042741/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/facts-figures |date=August 20, 2013 }}. Retrieved September 7, 2013.</ref>

Rutgers is a [[land-grant university|land-grant]], [[sea-grant university|sea-grant]], and [[space-grant university|space-grant]] university, as well as the largest [[higher education in New Jersey|university in the state]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Largest New Jersey Colleges and Universities |url=https://www.univstats.com/corestats/largest-student-population-in-new-jersey/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=Univstats |language=en-US}}</ref> Instruction is offered by 9,000 [[Faculty (division)|faculty]] members in 175 academic departments to over 45,000 undergraduate students and more than 20,000 graduate and professional students.<ref name="Facts&Figures" /> As of Fall 2023, Rutgers University enrolls over 69,000 students across its three campuses, making it one of the largest universities in the United States.<ref>Rutgers University. (2023). Facts & Figures. Retrieved from https://www.rutgers.edu/about/facts-figures</ref> The university is accredited by the [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education]]<ref>Middle States Commission on Higher Education. [http://www.msche.org/institutions_view.asp?idinstitution=385 Institution Directory: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015061655/http://msche.org/institutions_view.asp?idinstitution=385 |date=October 15, 2013 }} and [https://www.msche.org/documents/sas/385/Statement%20of%20Accreditation%20Status.htm Statement of Accreditation Status: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017072130/https://www.msche.org/documents/sas/385/Statement%20of%20Accreditation%20Status.htm |date=October 17, 2013 }}. Retrieved September 7, 2013.</ref> and is a member of the [[Association of American Universities]]<ref name="AAUMembers">Association of American Universities.[http://www.aau.edu/aau/members.html Association of American Universities]. Retrieved August 6, 2006 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819101707/http://www.aau.edu/aau/members.html |date=August 19, 2006 }}</ref> and the [[Universities Research Association]].<ref>Universities Research Association, Inc. [http://www.ura-hq.org/universities/index.html Universities (Members)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150515074117/http://www.ura-hq.org/universities/index.html |date=May 15, 2015 }}. Retrieved August 26, 2013.</ref>

==History==
{{Main|History of Rutgers University}}

===18th century===
Two decades after the College of New Jersey, which is now [[Princeton University]], was established in 1746 by the New Light Presbyterians, [[minister (Christianity)|ministers]] of the [[Reformed Church in America|Dutch Reformed Church]], seeking autonomy in ecclesiastical affairs in the [[Thirteen Colonies]], sought to establish a college to train those who wanted to become [[Clergy|ministers]] within the [[Dutch Reformed Church]] in the colony, which developed into the [[Reformed Church in America]].<ref name="andthen">[http://www.dailytargum.com/2.8607/and-then-there-was-rutgers-1.1519756 And then there was Rutgers...] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807071332/http://www.dailytargum.com/2.8607/and-then-there-was-rutgers-1.1519756 |date=August 7, 2011 }} in ''The Daily Targum'' November 8, 2002. Retrieved August 12, 2006.</ref><ref name="sketch">[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/ru_historical_sketch.shtml A Historical Sketch of Rutgers University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060822014043/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/ru_historical_sketch.shtml |date=August 22, 2006 }} by Thomas J. Frusciano, University Archivist. Retrieved August 12, 2006.</ref> 
[[File:Rutgers University Crest.svg|thumb|left|The university's [[coat of arms]], featuring four [[quarter (heraldry)|quarters]], a reference to the shields of the [[House of Orange-Nassau]] (for [[William III of England|William III of Orange and England]], [[Coat of arms of New Jersey|New Jersey]], Queen [[Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]], and [[Henry Rutgers]]<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://queensguard-rutgers.org/our-university/our-coat-of-arms/
 |title=Our Coat of Arms, Queens Guard Rutgers
 |website=queensguard-rutgers.org 
 |access-date=2023-04-10}}</ref>|174x174px]] 
Through several years of effort by [[Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen]] (1691–1747) and [[Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh]] (1736–1790), later the college's first president, Queen's College received its charter on November 10, 1766, from New Jersey's last royal governor, [[William Franklin]] (1730–1813), the son of [[Benjamin Franklin]].<ref name="andthen" /> The original charter established the college under the corporate name '''the trustees of Queen's College, in New-Jersey''', named in honor of [[Queen Charlotte]] (1744–1818), and created both the college and the Queen's College Grammar School, intended to be a [[University-preparatory school|preparatory school]] affiliated and governed by the college.<ref name="sketch" /> The Grammar School, today the private [[Rutgers Preparatory School]], was a part of the college community until 1959.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name = "years">[https://timeline.rutgers.edu/ Rutgers Through the Years], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref> New Brunswick was chosen as the location over [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]] because the New Brunswick Dutch had the support of the [[Anglican]] population, making the royal charter easier to obtain.<ref>[[Israel Shenker|Shenker, Israel]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/29/archives/rutgers-still-uneasy-as-the-state-university.html "Rutgers Still Uneasy as the State University"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 29, 1975. Accessed January 1, 2025. "It was founded in 1766, as Queen's College, by Dutch Reformed faithful who felt betrayed when coreligionists joined Anglicans to found King's College (later Columbia University). New Brunswick, chosen over Hackensack as the college site, had about 150 houses at the time, and the first class was set up in a former tavern ('Sign of the Red Lion')."</ref>
[[File:Old Queens, New Brunswick, NJ - looking north, 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Old Queens]], the oldest building at Rutgers University in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], built between 1809 and 1825; Old Queens houses much of the Rutgers University administration.]]
The original purpose of Queen's College was to "educate the youth in language, [[liberal arts|liberal, the divinity, and useful arts]] and sciences" and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /><ref>''A Charter for Queen's College in New Jersey'' (1770) in Special Collections and University Archives, Archibald S. Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.</ref>

In 1771, the college admitted its first students, which included a single sophomore and a handful of first-year students taught by a lone instructor, and granted its first degree in 1774, to [[Matthew Leydt]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> Despite the religious nature of the early college, the first classes were held at a [[tavern]] called the Sign of the Red Lion.<ref>[http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/bogart/r1.htm Rutgers College and the American Revolution] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821224309/http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/bogart/r1.htm |date=August 21, 2006 }}. Retrieved July 12, 2006</ref> When the Revolutionary War broke out and taverns were suspected by the British as being hotbeds of rebel activity, the college abandoned the tavern and held classes in private homes.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />

Like many colleges founded in the U.S. during this time, Rutgers benefited from slave labor and funds derived from purchasing and selling slaves. Research undertaken at the university in the 2010s began to uncover and document these connections, including the university's foundation on land taken from the indigenous [[Lenape]] people.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/ |title=Rutgers Scarlet and Black Project |publisher=Rutgers University |date=2021 |access-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329013742/https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===19th century===
{{Further|Henry Rutgers}}
In its early years, due to a lack of funds, Queen's College was closed for two extended periods. Early trustees considered merging the college with the College of New Jersey, in [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], but the measure failed by one vote. They later considered relocating it to [[New York City]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> In 1808, after raising $12,000, the college temporarily reopened and broke ground on a building of its own, called "[[Old Queens]]", designed by architect [[John McComb Jr.]]<ref name="paths">[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/historic_ru_paths.shtml Paths to Historic Rutgers: A Self-Guided Tour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903014416/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/university_archives/historic_ru_paths.shtml |date=September 3, 2006 }}, at Rutgers University. Retrieved August 9, 2006.</ref>  The college's third president, [[Ira Condict]], laid the cornerstone on April 27, 1809. Shortly after, the [[New Brunswick Theological Seminary]], founded in 1784, relocated from [[Brooklyn]], to New Brunswick, and shared facilities with Queen's College and the [[Rutgers Preparatory School|Queen's College Grammar School]], and all three institutions were then overseen by the [[Reformed Church in America]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> During those formative years, all three institutions fit into Old Queens. In 1830, Queen's College Grammar School moved across the street, and in 1856, the seminary relocated to a seven-acre (28,000&nbsp;m<sup>2</sup>) tract less than one-half mile (800&nbsp;m) away.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years"/>
[[File:Col henry rutgers.JPG|thumb|right|Colonel [[Henry Rutgers]] (1745–1830), an early benefactor and the namesake of Rutgers University]]
After several years of closure resulting from an economic depression after the [[War of 1812]], Queen's College reopened in 1825 and was renamed "Rutgers College" in honor of [[American Revolutionary War]] hero [[Henry Rutgers]] (1745–1830). According to the board of trustees, Colonel Rutgers was honored because he epitomized [[Christian ethics]]. A year after the school was renamed, it received two donations from its namesake: a $200 bell still hanging from the cupola of Old Queen's and a $5,000 bond ({{Inflation|USD|5000|1825|r=-3|fmt=eq}}) which placed the college on sound financial footing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Rutgers |url=https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/henry-rutgers/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.newnetherlandinstitute.org}}</ref>

Rutgers College became the [[land-grant college]] of New Jersey in 1864 under the [[Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act|Morrill Act of 1862]], resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers Scientific School, featuring departments of [[agriculture]], [[engineering]], and [[chemistry]].<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> The Rutgers Scientific School would expand over the years to grow into the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (1880) and divide into the [[School of Engineering (Rutgers University)|College of Engineering]] (1914) and the [[School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Rutgers University)|College of Agriculture]] (1921).<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" /> Rutgers created the [[Douglass College (Rutgers University)|New Jersey College for Women]] in 1918, and the School of Education in 1924.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />

===20th century===

With the development of graduate education, and the continued expansion of the institution, the collection of schools became Rutgers University in 1924.<ref name="years" /> Rutgers College continued as a liberal arts college within the university. Later, [[School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)|University College]] (1945) was founded to serve part-time, commuting students and [[Livingston College]] (1969) was created by the Rutgers Trustees, ensuring that the interests of ethnically diverse New Jersey students were met.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />

Rutgers was designated the state university of New Jersey by acts of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] in 1945 and 1956.<ref name="1956law">[https://archive.today/20121224170401/http://lis.njleg.state.nj.us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=16046531&depth=2&expandheadings=off&headingswithhits=on&infobase=statutes.nfo&softpage=TOC_Frame_Pg42 N.J.S.A.] 18A:65–1 et seq. (Public Law 1956, chapter 61) repealing and succeeding P.L. 1945, c.49, p.115. Retrieved August 8, 2006.</ref>  Although Rutgers thus became a public university, it still retains—as the successor to the private college founded and chartered in 1766—some private rights and protections regarding its fundamental character and mission.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dane |first1=Perry |last2=Stein |first2=Allan |last3=Williams |first3=Robert |year=2014 |title=Saving Rutgers-Camden |journal=Rutgers Law Journal 337 (2014) |volume=44 |pages=337–412 |ssrn=2302826}}</ref>

The newly-designated state university absorbed the University of Newark in 1946 and then the College of South Jersey and South Jersey Law School in 1950. These two institutions became [[Rutgers University–Newark]] and [[Rutgers University–Camden]], respectively. On September 10, 1970, the board of governors voted to admit women into Rutgers College.<ref name="sketch" /><ref name="years" />
[[File:Rutgers University statue and tree in April College Campus.JPG|thumb|left|On the western end of [[Voorhees Mall]] is a [[William the Silent (statue)|bronze statue of William the Silent]], commemorating the university's [[Netherlands|Dutch]] heritage.<ref name="WillieFacultySpirit">Staff. [http://www.dailytargum.com/news/university/faculty-members-signify-spirit-of-william-the-silent/article_2d4d33ba-5e9c-11e1-ab12-001a4bcf6878.html?TNNoMobile Editorial: "Faculty members signify spirit of William the Silent"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140228192225/http://www.dailytargum.com/news/university/faculty-members-signify-spirit-of-william-the-silent/article_2d4d33ba-5e9c-11e1-ab12-001a4bcf6878.html?TNNoMobile |date=February 28, 2014 }}, ''The Daily Targum'', February 24, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2014.</ref>]]
There were setbacks in the growth of the university. In 1967, the Rutgers Physics Department had a Centers of Excellence Grant from the NSF which allowed the physics department to hire several faculty each year. These faculty were to be paid by the grant for three years, but after that time any faculty hired with the associate or full professor designation would become tenured. The governor and the chancellor forced Rutgers to lose this grant by rejecting the condition that tenure be granted.<ref>[https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/dept/history/robbins/chapt11.pdf "NSF Science Development Grant Peter Weiss (1964-1972)"], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

In 1970, the newly formed Rutgers Medical School hired major faculty members from other institutions. In 1971, the governor's office separated Rutgers Medical School from Rutgers University and made it part of [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey|New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry]], and many faculty left the medical school, including the dean of the medical school, Dewitt Stetten, who later became the director of the National Institutes of Health. As a result of the separation of the medical school from Rutgers University, Ph.D. programs that had been started in the medical center were lost, and students had to seek other institutions to finish their degrees. After the dissolution of the University of Medicine and Dentistry in 2013, the medical school [[#1982–present|again became]] part of the university.<ref name="Timeline">{{Cite web |title=Timeline |url=https://rwjms.rutgers.edu/about_rwjms/history#:~:text=Robert%20Wood%20Johnson%20Medical%20School,students%20entered%20in%20September%201966. |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=rwjms.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

Before 1982, separate liberal arts faculties existed in the several separate "[[residential college]]s" (Rutgers, Douglass, Livingston, University, and Cook colleges) at Rutgers–New Brunswick.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/education/rutgers-chief-said-to-plan-end-to-separate-womens-college.html|title=Rutgers Chief Said to Plan End to Separate Women's College|last1=Jones|first1=Richard Lezin|date=March 7, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 22, 2020|last2=Koblin|first2=John|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121011109/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/education/rutgers-chief-said-to-plan-end-to-separate-womens-college.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1982, under president [[Edward J. Bloustein]], the liberal arts faculties of these five institutions were centralized into one college, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which itself had no students. The separate residential colleges persisted for students, and while instructors for classes were now drawn from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, separate standards for admission, good standing, and graduation continued for students, depending on which residential college they were enrolled in.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rutgers.edu/about/history/past-presidents/edward-j-bloustein|website=www.rutgers.edu|access-date=January 22, 2020|title=Edward J. Bloustein &#124; Rutgers University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426153536/https://www.rutgers.edu/about/history/past-presidents/edward-j-bloustein|archive-date=April 26, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> In January 1987, around 2,800 non-teaching employees went on strike for increased salaries, which ended after nine days after an agreement with the administration was made.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Narvaez |first1=Alfonso A. |date=1987-01-20 |title=CLASSES DISRUPTED AS EMPLOYEES STRIKE AT 3 RUTGERS CAMPUSES |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/20/nyregion/classes-disrupted-as-employees-strike-at-3-rutgers-campuses.html |access-date=2023-04-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1987-01-29 |title=PACT ENDS THE RUTGERS STRIKE |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/29/nyregion/pact-ends-the-rutgers-strike.html |access-date=2023-04-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

===21st century===
In 2007, Rutgers New Brunswick, Douglass, Livingston, and University Colleges, along with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were merged into the new "[[School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)|School of Arts and Sciences]]" with one set of admissions criteria, curriculum, and graduation requirements. At this time, the liberal arts components of Cook College were absorbed into the School of Arts and Sciences as well, while the other aspects of that college remained, but as the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. These changes in 2007 ended the 241-year history of Rutgers College as a distinct institution.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/nyregion/merger-of-womens-college-at-rutgers-gets-some-support.html|title=Merger of Women's College at Rutgers Gets Some Support|last1=Jones|first1=Richard Lezin|date=March 8, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 22, 2020|last2=Koblin|first2=John|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224183055/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/nyregion/merger-of-womens-college-at-rutgers-gets-some-support.html|archive-date=February 24, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Students at the [[2011 Rutgers tuition protests]] fought against rising education costs and diminished state subsidies. Campus groups (including the Rutgers Student Union, the Rutgers One Coalition, and the Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA), supported by New Jersey United Students (NJUS), mobilized to keep the increase in annual student financial obligation to a minimum through marches, sit-ins, letters to administration officials and forums.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/news/2011/04/rutgers_students_extend_sit-in.html|title=Rutgers students extend sit-in protest against tuition costs to second day|first=Tom|last=Haydon|date=April 28, 2011|website=nj.com|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403201136/https://www.nj.com/news/2011/04/rutgers_students_extend_sit-in.html|archive-date=April 3, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/nyregion/rutgers-students-occupy-building-in-protest.html|title=Rutgers Students Occupy Building in Tuition Protest|first=Lisa W.|last=Foderaro|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 27, 2011|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403201137/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/nyregion/rutgers-students-occupy-building-in-protest.html|archive-date=April 3, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2011, there was an attempt by then New Jersey governor [[Chris Christie]] and members of the legislature to merge Rutgers–Camden into [[Rowan University]], it ultimately was rejected in part due to several on-campus protests and pushback from Camden faculty, students, and alumni.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://gillette.camden.rutgers.edu/2012/04/02/rowans-battle-plan-to-takeover-rutgers-camden/ | title=Rowan's Battle Plan to Take over Rutgers-Camden &#124; Howard Gillette &#124; Rutgers University | access-date=July 9, 2022 | archive-date=July 9, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709132244/https://gillette.camden.rutgers.edu/2012/04/02/rowans-battle-plan-to-takeover-rutgers-camden/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

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."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://president.rutgers.edu/writings/letters/plan-enhancing-college-avenue-campus |title=A Plan for Enhancing the College Avenue Campus &#124; Richard L. McCormick |publisher=President.rutgers.edu |date=June 20, 2012 |access-date=July 6, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606030512/http://president.rutgers.edu/writings/letters/plan-enhancing-college-avenue-campus |archive-date=June 6, 2013 }}</ref> Most of the block had been occupied by the [[New Brunswick Theological Seminary]]. Rutgers agreed to rebuild the seminary in exchange for the land.<ref>{{Cite web |last=NJ.com |first=Kelly Heyboer {{!}} NJ Advance Media for |date=2013-09-08 |title=New Brunswick Theological Seminary sells part of historic campus to Rutgers for a fresh start |url=https://www.nj.com/news/2013/09/new_brunswick_theological_seminary_sells_part_of_historic_campus_to_rutgers_for_a_fresh_start.html |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=nj |language=en}}</ref>

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 Health|Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences]].<ref name="CHE">{{cite web |author=Nick DeSantis |url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/rutgers-u-boards-approve-controversial-restructuring-plan/51992?cid=at |title=Rutgers U. Boards Approve Controversial Restructuring Plan |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=November 19, 2012 |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406134518/http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/rutgers-u-boards-approve-controversial-restructuring-plan/51992?cid=at |archive-date=April 6, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=John O'Boyle / The Star-Ledger |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/rutgers_boards_approve_umdnj_m.html |title="Rutgers boards approve historic UMDNJ merger" ''Newark Star-Ledger'', November 19, 2012 |date=November 19, 2012 |publisher=Nj.com |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307111822/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/rutgers_boards_approve_umdnj_m.html |archive-date=March 7, 2013 }}</ref> This merger attached the [[New Jersey Medical School]] and [[Robert Wood Johnson Medical School]] to Rutgers University.<ref name="Timeline"/>
[[File:Rutgers Shield.svg|thumb|The Rutgers Shield was released on its 250th year anniversary in 2015.]]
In 2013, Rutgers changed part of its alma mater, "[[On the Banks of the Old Raritan]]." Where the lyrics had 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."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/nyregion/rutgers-updates-its-anthem-to-include-women.html?_r=0 | work=The New York Times | first=Ariel | last=Kaminer | title=Rutgers Updates Its Anthem to Include Women | date=September 24, 2013 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102150409/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/nyregion/rutgers-updates-its-anthem-to-include-women.html?_r=0 | archive-date=January 2, 2016 }}</ref> The song for the Camden campus "On the Banks of the Old Delaware" are lyrically similar aside from the river name.<ref>Glass, Arnold. [https://dailytargum.com/article/2018/11/new-lyrics-of-on-the-banks-of-the-old-raritan-are-poor "GLASS: New lyrics of ‘On the Banks of the Old Raritan’ are poor"], ''[[The Daily Targum]]'', November 28, 2018. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Also, a contest was opened up to the entire Rutgers community to write new verses to recognize the Newark and Camden campuses. So, today 'on the banks of the old Delaware' is sung in Camden."</ref>

In 2016, Rutgers celebrated its 250th anniversary. On May 15, President [[Barack Obama]] became the first sitting president to speak at the university's commencement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/15/remarks-president-commencement-address-rutgers-state-university-new|title=Remarks by the President at Commencement Address at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey|date=May 15, 2016|website=whitehouse.gov|language=en|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927194816/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/15/remarks-president-commencement-address-rutgers-state-university-new|archive-date=September 27, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://commencement.rutgers.edu/2016-commencement-speaker|title=2016 Commencement Speaker {{!}} University Commencement|website=commencement.rutgers.edu|access-date=January 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527151424/http://commencement.rutgers.edu/2016-commencement-speaker|archive-date=May 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The university held a variety of celebrations, academic programs, and commemorative events which culminated on the 250th anniversary date, November 10, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ucmweb.rutgers.edu/250/galleries/events-and-recognition.htm |title=Events and Recognition &#124; Rutgers 250 |publisher=Ucmweb.rutgers.edu |date= |accessdate=2022-10-04}}</ref>

In November 2016, Rutgers released research findings that revealed: "an untold history of some of the institution's founders as [[slave]] owners and the displacement of the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] who once occupied land that was later transferred to the college."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/scarlet-and-black-slavery-and-dispossession-rutgers-history-brings-university%E2%80%99s-untold-story-out/20161117|title='Scarlet and Black: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History' Brings University's Untold Story Out of the Shadows|date=November 17, 2016|website=Rutgers Today|access-date=November 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212142254/https://news.rutgers.edu/news-release/scarlet-and-black-slavery-and-dispossession-rutgers-history-brings-university%E2%80%99s-untold-story-out/20161117|archive-date=December 12, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://magazine.rutgers.edu/insights/an-uncomfortable-truth|title=An Uncomfortable Truth|website=Rutgers Magazine|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403202205/https://magazine.rutgers.edu/insights/an-uncomfortable-truth|archive-date=April 3, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/|title=Home – Scarlet and Black Project|website=scarletandblack.rutgers.edu|access-date=April 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329013742/https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/|archive-date=March 29, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In January 2020, [[Jonathan Holloway (historian)|Jonathan Holloway]] made history as the first African American and person of color to be named president of Rutgers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.rutgers.edu/jonathan-holloway-named-21st-president-rutgers-state-university-new-jersey/20200121|title=Jonathan Holloway Named 21st President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey|date=January 21, 2020|website=Rutgers Today|language=en|access-date=January 21, 2020|archive-date=January 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121190847/https://news.rutgers.edu/jonathan-holloway-named-21st-president-rutgers-state-university-new-jersey/20200121|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 9, 2023, three unions voted to go on the [[2023 Rutgers University strike|first strike]] by academics in the university's 257-year history. Classes and research were suspended for a week.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stack |first=Liam |date=2023-04-10 |title=Rutgers University Faculty Members Strike, Halting Classes and Research |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/nyregion/rutgers-strike.html |access-date=2023-04-10 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Riess |first=Jay Croft, Rebekah |date=2023-04-15 |title=Agreement reached between Rutgers University and labor union representatives, faculty strike ends |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/us/rutgers-faculty-union-deal/index.html |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> Five months later, in September, the university's faculty senate voted "[[Motion of no confidence|no confidence]]" in Holloway; in addition to issues related to the strikes, the motion also cited Halloway's decision to dismiss the chancellor of the university's Newark campus and his proposal to merge the university's two medical schools.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.inquirer.com/education/jonathan-holloway-rutgers-university-president-no-confidence-vote-20230922.html |title=Rutgers University senate votes no confidence in the school's president after faculty strike and controversial changes |first=Susan |last=Snyder |publisher=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=September 22, 2023 |accessdate=October 3, 2023}}</ref>

==Organization and administration==
===University president===
{{See also|List of Rutgers University presidents}}

Since 1785, twenty-two men have served as the institution's president, beginning with [[Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh]], a Dutch Reformed minister who was responsible for establishing the college.<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/jacob-rutsen-hardenbergh Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh – Queen’s College President, 1786 to 1790] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901175933/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/jacob-rutsen-hardenbergh |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref><ref name="FruscianoLeadership">Frusciano, Thomas J. "Leadership on the Banks: Rutgers' Presidents, 1766–2004", in ''The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries'' LIII(1) (June 1991).</ref> Before 1930, most of the university's presidents were clergy affiliated with Christian denominations in the [[Calvinism|Reformed tradition]].<ref name="FruscianoLeadership" /><ref name="RutgersLeadersPastPresidents">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/past-presidents Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Past Presidents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901173923/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/past-presidents |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref> Two presidents were alumni of Rutgers College—[[William Henry Steele Demarest|William H. S. Demarest]] (Class of 1883) and [[Philip Milledoler Brett]] (Class of 1892).<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/william-henry-steele-demarest Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: William Henry Steele Demarest – Rutgers President, 1906 to 1924] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901175743/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/william-henry-steele-demarest |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref><ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/philip-m-brett Rutgers Leaders, Rutgers History: Philip M. Brett – Rutgers Acting President, 1930 to 1931] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901175721/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/philip-m-brett |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref>

The president serves in an ''[[ex officio]]'' capacity as a presiding officer within the university's 59-member board of trustees and its eleven-member board of governors,<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-trustees/board-trustees-membership-listing Governing Boards: Board of Trustees Membership Listing, 2013–2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012907/http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-trustees/board-trustees-membership-listing |date=December 21, 2013 }} and [http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-governors/board-governors-membership-listing Governing Boards: Board of Governors Membership Listing, 2013–2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012956/http://governingboards.rutgers.edu/board-governors/board-governors-membership-listing |date=December 21, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref> and is appointed by these boards to oversee the day-to-day operations of the university across its campuses. He is charged with implementing "board policies with the help and advice of senior administrators and other members of the university community."<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/leadership-governance About Rutgers: Vision and Continuity – Leadership and Governance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901172220/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/leadership-governance |date=September 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved August 17, 2013.</ref> The president is responsible only to those two governing boards—there is no oversight by state officials.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the President |url=https://www.rutgers.edu/president/about-president-holloway |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.rutgers.edu |language=en}}</ref>

The current president is [[William F. Tate IV]], who assumed the role on July 1, 2025. He succeeded the 21st president [[Jonathan Holloway (historian)|Jonathan Holloway]] who assumed office on July 1, 2020.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Freytas-Tamura|first=Kimiko de|date=January 19, 2020|title=Rutgers to Name Its First Black President, School Official Says|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/nyregion/rutgers-president-jonathan-holloway.html|access-date=April 29, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200120225114/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/19/nyregion/rutgers-president-jonathan-holloway.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Governing boards===
Governance at Rutgers University rests with a board of trustees consisting of 41 members, and a board of governors consisting of 15 voting members: eight are appointed by the [[Governor of New Jersey]] and seven chosen by and from among the board of trustees.<ref name="Targeted">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/health/hset/chapter6.htm |title=Commission on Health Science, Education, and Training: Rutgers Targeted Assessment |access-date=August 31, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050831235722/http://www.state.nj.us/health/hset/chapter6.htm |archive-date=August 31, 2005  }} accessed June 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOTmembers.shtml Rutgers: Members of the Board of Trustees] accessed August 15, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901094715/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOTmembers.shtml |date=September 1, 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOGmembers.shtml Rutgers:Members of the Board of Governors] accessed August 15, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205200723/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOGmembers.shtml |date=February 5, 2012 }}</ref> The trustees constitute chiefly an advisory body to the board of governors and are the fiduciary overseers of the property and assets of the university that existed before the institution became the State University of New Jersey in 1945. The initial reluctance of the trustees (still acting as a private corporate body) to cede control of certain business affairs to the state government for direction and oversight caused the state to establish the Board of governors in 1956.<ref>[http://ur.rutgers.edu/magazine/article/View%20from%20the%20Inside/38/ "A View from the Inside"]  {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20060509173603/http://ur.rutgers.edu/magazine/article/View%20from%20the%20Inside/38/ |date=May 9, 2006 }} (an interview with Dr. Richard P. McCormick) by Thomas J. Frusciano in ''Rutgers Magazine'' (Winter 2006). Retrieved August 16, 2006.</ref> Today, the board of governors maintains much of the corporate control of the university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Governing Boards of the University {{!}} |url=https://governingboards.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=governingboards.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

The members of the board of trustees are voted upon by different constituencies or appointed. "Two faculty and two students are elected by the University Senate as nonvoting representatives. The 59 voting members are chosen in the following way as mandated by state law: 20 charter members (of whom at least three shall be women), 16 alumni members nominated by the nominating committee of the board of trustees, and five public members appointed by the governor of the state with confirmation by the [[New Jersey Senate]].<ref>[https://governingboards.rutgers.edu Governing Boards], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Rutgers University is governed by a Board of Governors composed of 15 voting members vested generally with the government, control, conduct, management, and administration of the university. Rutgers also has an advisory Board of Trustees of 41 voting members empowered with certain fiduciary responsibilities over assets of the university in existence before 1956. The university president is a nonvoting, ex-officio member of both boards."</ref>

===Affiliations===
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* [[Association of American Universities]]
* [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]]
* [[Big Ten Academic Alliance]]
* [[Universities Research Association]]
* [[Association of Public and Land-grant Universities]]
* [[Big Ten Conference]]

==Locations and divisions==

Rutgers University has three campuses in New Jersey. The New Brunswick Campus, located in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]] and adjacent [[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]], is the largest campus of the university. The Newark Campus in [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] and the Camden Campus in [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]] are located in the northern and southern parts of the state, respectively.<ref name="RUStyleGuide">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey — Department of University Relations. [http://ur.rutgers.edu/sites/ur/files/EditStyleGuide_2013.pdf Rutgers Editorial Style Guide] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221013010/http://ur.rutgers.edu/sites/ur/files/EditStyleGuide_2013.pdf |date=December 21, 2013 }} (revised July 1, 2013), page 5 ff.</ref> Combined, these campuses comprise 33 degree-granting schools and colleges, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels of study.<ref name="RUStyleGuide" /> The university is centrally administered from New Brunswick, although chancellors at the [[Rutgers–Newark|Newark]] and [[Rutgers–Camden|Camden]] campuses hold significant autonomy for some academic issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ur.rutgers.edu/styleguide/pnames.shtml#acronyms |title=Rutgers Fact Book |access-date=December 23, 2007 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223155641/http://ur.rutgers.edu/styleguide/pnames.shtml#acronyms |archive-date=December 23, 2007  }}</ref>

===Rutgers–New Brunswick===
{{Main|Rutgers University–New Brunswick}}
[[File:Honors College, Rutgers–New Brunswick.jpg|thumb|The Honors College at [[Rutgers University–New Brunswick]]]]
The New Brunswick Campus (or Rutgers–New Brunswick) is the largest campus and the site of the original Rutgers College. Spread across six municipalities in [[Middlesex County, New Jersey]], it lies chiefly in the City of New Brunswick and adjacent Piscataway and is composed of five smaller campuses and a few buildings in downtown New Brunswick. The historic College Avenue Campus is close to downtown New Brunswick and includes the seat of the university, [[Old Queens]] and other nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century buildings that constitute the [[Queens Campus, Rutgers University|Queens Campus]] and [[Voorhees Mall]]. Its proximity to New Brunswick's train station and numerous food vendors located downtown, in addition to a large amount of off-campus housing and fraternity and sorority houses, make this a popular weekend destination.

Across the city, Douglass Campus and Cook Campus are intertwined and often referred to as the Cook/Douglass Campus. Cook Campus has extensive farms and woods that reach North Brunswick and East Brunswick. Separated by the Raritan River is [[Busch Campus]], in Piscataway, and Livingston Campus, also mainly in Piscataway but including remote sections of land extending into Edison and Highland Park. The Busch Campus is noted as the home of Rutgers' highly ranked Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, as well as the golf course and football stadium. The Livingston campus is home to [[Jersey Mike's Arena]] (formerly the Rutgers Athletic Center [RAC]), a trapezoidal building that is home to many sports teams, notably the men's basketball team. Additionally, this campus has undergone many renovations and is regarded as the most "modern" campus. The campus entrance is delineated by the all-glass [[Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick|Rutgers Business School]] building known as "100 Rock" (because of the building's Piscataway address, 100 Rockafeller Road). [[Rutgers Campus Buses]] transport students between the various campuses.<ref>"Department of Transportation"</ref>

As of 2010, the New Brunswick-Piscataway campuses include 19 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, including the [[School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)|School of Arts and Sciences]], the [[School of Communication and Information (Rutgers University)|School of Communication and Information]], the [[Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy]], the [[School of Engineering (Rutgers University)|School of Engineering]], the [[School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (Rutgers University)|School of Environmental and Biological Sciences]], the [[Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy]], the Graduate School, the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, the Graduate School of Education, the [[School of Management and Labor Relations]], [[Mason Gross School of the Arts]], the College of Nursing, the [[Rutgers Business School]] and the School of Social Work. {{as of|2012}}, 40,434 students (31,593 undergraduates and 8,841 graduate students) were enrolled at the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus.<ref name="factbook">{{cite web | url = http://oirap.rutgers.edu/instchar/factbook.html | title = 2012–2013 Factbook | publisher = Rutgers University | access-date = May 10, 2013 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130516162039/http://oirap.rutgers.edu/instchar/factbook.html | archive-date = May 16, 2013 }}</ref> The New Brunswick-Piscataway campus includes a Business School building on the Livingston Campus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Livingston Campus: 100 Rock Directions |url=https://www.business.rutgers.edu/visit/livingston |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick |language=en}}</ref>

===Rutgers–Newark===
{{Main|Rutgers University–Newark}}
{{Further|Rutgers Business School|Rutgers Law School|Rutgers University School of Public Affairs and Administration}}
The Newark Campus (or Rutgers–Newark) consists of eight undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, including Newark College of Arts and Sciences, University College, School of Criminal Justice, Graduate School, School of Nursing, [[Rutgers University School of Public Affairs and Administration|School of Public Affairs and Administration]], [[Rutgers Business School]] and the [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] location of the [[Rutgers Law School]]. {{as of|2012}}, 7,666 undergraduates and 4,345 graduate students (total 12,011) are enrolled at the Newark campus.<ref name="factbook" /> Originally the University of Newark, the campus was renamed and rebranded as Rutgers–Newark in 1945.

===Rutgers–Camden===
{{Main|Rutgers University–Camden}}
{{Further|Rutgers Law School}}
[[File:Ru-camden-campus walk.jpg|thumb|[[Rutgers University–Camden]]'s quad walk]]
The Camden Campus (or Rutgers–Camden) consists of six undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, including Camden College of Arts and Sciences, University College, Graduate School, Rutgers School of Business–Camden, Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden,<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden |url=https://nursing.camden.rutgers.edu/ |title=World-class nurses in the heart of South Jersey |access-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-date=July 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706163009/https://nursing.camden.rutgers.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Camden location of the [[Rutgers Law School]]. The schools are located in the Cooper's Grant and Central Waterfront neighborhoods of Camden. {{as of|2012}}, 4,708 undergraduates and 1,635 graduate students (total 6,343) are enrolled at the Camden campus.<ref name="factbook" />

The campus was founded as the College of South Jersey and South Jersey Law School in the 1920s, and became part of Rutgers in 1950.<ref>[https://www.camden.rutgers.edu/about/history History & Tradition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506173211/https://www.camden.rutgers.edu/about/history |date=May 6, 2022 }}, [[Rutgers University–Camden]]. Accessed May 10, 2022. "Founded in the 1920s, Rutgers University–Camden began as the South Jersey Law School and the College of South Jersey. In 1950, the two schools became the Camden campus when it merged with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey."</ref>

===Rutgers Health===
{{Main|Rutgers Health}}
Rutgers Health (formerly Rutgers Biomedcial and Health Sciences) is a division of the university that serves as an umbrella organization for schools, centers, and institutes from Rutgers University and the old [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]]. The organization was incorporated into the university following the 2013 merger of Rutgers and UMDNJ.<ref>[http://rbhs.rutgers.edu/ Home | Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702061128/http://rbhs.rutgers.edu/ |date=July 2, 2014 }}. Rbhs.rutgers.edu. Retrieved on April 12, 2014.</ref> 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.<ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, [http://senate.rutgers.edu/ecag051713.html University Senate: Executive Committee Agenda, May 17, 2013 – 1:10 p.m.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315071209/http://senate.rutgers.edu/ecag051713.html |date=March 15, 2014 }} (2013). Quote: "In light of the UMDNJ integration taking place this July, forming the fourth campus of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS)". Retrieved March 14, 2014.</ref><ref>Nurin, Tara. [http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/02/17/outspoken-rutgers-faculty-object-to-school-s-new-strategic-plan/?p=all "Outspoken Rutgers Faculty Objects to School's New Strategic Plan"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315071648/http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/02/17/outspoken-rutgers-faculty-object-to-school-s-new-strategic-plan/?p=all |date=March 15, 2014 }}, ''NJSpotlight'', February 18, 2014. Quote: "...with Rutgers’ legislatively mandated takeover of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), the creation of a fourth (theoretical) RBHS campus". Retrieved March 14, 2014.</ref><ref>Lai, Jonathan, [http://articles.philly.com/2013-09-11/news/41974229_1_pritchett-rutgers-camden-chancellor-rayman-solomon "Pritchett to step down as Rutgers-Camden chancellor"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315070944/http://articles.philly.com/2013-09-11/news/41974229_1_pritchett-rutgers-camden-chancellor-rayman-solomon |date=March 15, 2014 }}, ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', September 11, 2013. Quote: "The university has a chancellor in each of its regional campuses, in Camden, New Brunswick, and Newark, along with a fourth covering the new Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences division. The chancellors hold direct responsibility for their campus' daily operations". Retrieved March 14, 2014.</ref><ref>University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; State of New Jersey, Commission on Higher Education. [http://www.nj.gov/highereducation/IP/IP2013/full_reports/UMDNJ%202013.pdf UMDNJ Final Annual Institutional Profile, June 30, 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315081449/http://www.nj.gov/highereducation/IP/IP2013/full_reports/UMDNJ%202013.pdf |date=March 15, 2014 }} (2013), 187. Quote: "The legacy UMDNJ Schools, as well as biomedical schools/units from Rutgers University, were designated a fourth "campus" of Rutgers University, the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) campus." Retrieved March 15, 2014.</ref> In July 2023, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences renamed to Rutgers Health.<ref>[https://rutgershealth.org/chancellor/communications/rutgers-health-brand-name-announcement "Rutgers Health Brand Name Announcement"], Rutgers Health, July 18, 2023. Accessed January 1, 2025. "After a decade of exceptional growth and achievements, we are thrilled to announce that RBHS and its mission areas of teaching, research, clinical care, and service will be known collectively as Rutgers Health, effective today, July 18."</ref>

Rutgers Health comprises nine schools and other research centers and institutes including; Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, New Jersey Medical School, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, [[School of Nursing]], School of Dental Medicine, School of Health Related Professions, the School of Public Health, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Environmental and the Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Brain Health Institute, and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. The programs are offered at different location sites across New Jersey in New Brunswick, Newark, [[Blackwood, New Jersey|Blackwood]], [[Stratford, New Jersey|Stratford]] and [[Scotch Plains, New Jersey]].<ref>[https://rutgershealth.org/education-training#schools Education and Training; Schools], Rutgers Health. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

===Rutgers-Online===
As of 2015, Rutgers offered a total of 11 fully online degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rutgers Online|url=http://online.rutgers.edu/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623030620/http://online.rutgers.edu/|archive-date=June 23, 2015|access-date=June 11, 2015}}</ref> Online degree programs at Rutgers must meet the same academic expectations, in terms of both teaching and learning outcomes, as traditional on-campus programs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of courses were conducted through remote instruction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://coronavirus.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=Universitywide COVID-19 Information |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Off-campus===
Rutgers offers classes at several off-campus sites in affiliation with community colleges and other state colleges throughout New Jersey.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ce1766.rutgers.edu/index.jsp |title=Rutgers continuing studies |publisher=ce1766.rutgers.edu |access-date=November 29, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010145057/http://ce1766.rutgers.edu/index.jsp |archive-date=October 10, 2010 }}</ref> These partnerships are designed to enable students to achieve a seamless transfer to Rutgers and to take all of their Rutgers classes in a select number of the most popular majors at the community college campus. The collaborative effort provides access to Rutgers faculty teaching Rutgers courses, at a convenient location, but it is also one of the few programs that cater exclusively to the non-traditional student population. Rutgers' current partners include [[Atlantic Cape Community College|Atlantic Cape]], [[Brookdale Community College|Brookdale]], [[Mercer County Community College|Mercer]], [[County College of Morris|Morris]], [[Camden County College|Camden]], and [[Raritan Valley Community College|Raritan Valley]] community colleges.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rutgers Off Campus|url=http://offcampus.rutgers.edu/|access-date=December 21, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221012906/http://offcampus.rutgers.edu/|archive-date=December 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rutgers University Statewide Partnerships|url=https://statewide.rutgers.edu/|access-date=November 3, 2020|website=StateWide|language=en-US|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101120832/https://statewide.rutgers.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Academics==

The university offers more than 100 distinct bachelor, 100 masters, and 80 doctoral and professional degree programs across 175 academic departments, 29 degree-granting schools, and colleges, 16 of which offer graduate programs of study.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academics |url=https://www.rutgers.edu/academics |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.rutgers.edu |language=en}}</ref>

It is accredited by the [[Middle States Commission on Higher Education|Commission on Higher Education]] of the [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]] (1921), and in 1989, became a member of the [[Association of American Universities]], an organization of the 62 leading research universities in North America.<ref name="aau.edu">[http://www.aau.edu/aau/members.html Association of American Universities], AAU. Retrieved August 6, 2006 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823111136/http://www.aau.edu/aau/members.html |date=August 23, 2012 }}</ref> [[Rutgers–New Brunswick]] is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=186380 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 19, 2020 |archive-date=July 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719064719/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=186380 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Rutgers–Newark]] and [[Rutgers–Camden]] are classified by the same organization as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".<ref>[http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/sub.asp?key=748&subkey=15169&start=782 CarnegieFoundation.org] , for RU-Newark information. Retrieved March 15, 2009. [http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/sub.asp?key=748&subkey=15167&start=782 CarnegieFoundation.org], for RU-Camden. Retrieved March 15, 2009. {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070616181227/http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/sub.asp?key=748&subkey=15169&start=782 |date=June 16, 2007 }}</ref>

===Admissions===

==== Undergraduate ====

{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2021
|admit rate        = 68.2
|admit rate change = +11.3
|yield rate        = 24.2
|yield rate change = -6.8
|test optional   = yes
|SAT Total         = 1240–1470<br />(among 45% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 27–33<br />(among 7% of [[freshman|FTFs]])
|ACT change        = 
|float             = right
|ref               = <ref name="FallEnrollmentReport">{{cite web |url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/CDS/2021/New%20Brunswick%20CDS_2021-2022_Final%20V1.pdf |title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick Campus College Common Data Set 2021–2022 |publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2022-11-17 }}</ref>
}}

''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' considers the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University to be a "more selective" school in terms of the rigor of its admissions processes.<ref>[http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/6964 America's Best Colleges 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217222822/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/6964 |date=February 17, 2009 }} from ''U.S. News & World Report''. Retrieved November 18, 2008.</ref> For the Class of 2025 (enrolling fall 2021), the New Brunswick campus received 43,161 applications and accepted 29,419 (68.2%).<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /> The number enrolling was 7,105; the yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who enroll) was 24.2%.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /> The freshman [[University student retention|retention rate]] is 94%, with 83.8% going on to graduate within six years.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /> Rutgers is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity," reflecting its extensive research output and doctoral programs.<ref>Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. (2024). Retrieved from https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=185590</ref>


Of the 45% of the incoming freshman class who submitted [[SAT]] scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1240-1470.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" /> Of the 7% of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted [[ACT (test)|ACT]] scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 27 and 33.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" />

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 21 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 29 freshman students were [[National Merit Scholars]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf|title=National Merit Scholarship Corporation 2019-20 Annual Report|publisher=National Merit Scholarship Corporation|access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>

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|+ '''Fall First-Time Freshman Statistics'''
<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport" />
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/CDS/2020/New%20Brunswick%20CDS_2020-2021.pdf |title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick Campus College Common Data Set 2020-2021|publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/CDS/2019/New%20Brunswick%20CDS__2019-2020.pdf |title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick Campus College Common Data Set 2019-2020|publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/CDS/2018/New%20Brunswick%20CDS_2018-2019.pdf |title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick Campus College Common Data Set 2018-2019|publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/CDS/2017/New%20Brunswick%20CDS_2017-2018.pdf |title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick Campus College Common Data Set 2017-2018|publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/CDS/2016/New%20BrunswickRegion16.pdf |title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: New Brunswick Campus College Common Data Set 2016-2017|publisher=Rutgers University |access-date=2022-12-07}}</ref>
|-
! 
! 2021 !! 2020 !! 2019 !! 2018 !! 2017 !! 2016
|-
! Applicants
| 43,161 || 41,263 || 41,286 || 41,348 || 38,384 || 36,677
|-
! Admits
| 29,419 || 27,618 || 25,277 || 24,854 || 22,186 || 20,884
|-
! Admit rate
| 68.2 || 66.9 || 61.2 || 60.1 || 57.8 || 56.9 
|-
! Enrolled
| 7,105 || 6,551 || 7,315 || 7,036 || 6,268 || 6,466
|-
! Yield rate
| 24.2 || 23.7 || 28.9 || 28.3 || 28.3 || 31.0
|-
! ACT composite*<br /><small>(out of 36)</small>
| 27-33<br /><small>(7%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25-32<br /><small>(18%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25-32<br /><small>(18%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 25-31<br /><small>(25%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || {{sdash}} || {{sdash}}
|- 
! SAT composite*<br /><small>(out of 1600)</small>
| 1240-1470<br /><small>(45%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1180-1410<br /><small>(90%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1210-1430<br /><small>(90%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1190-1410<br /><small>(87%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || 1190-1400<br /><small>(81%<sup>†</sup>)</small> || {{sdash}}
|-
| colspan=7 | * middle 50% range<br /> <sup>†</sup> percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit
|}

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===Financial aid===

As a state university, Rutgers charges two separate rates for tuition and fees depending on an enrolled student's residency. The ''Office of Institutional Research and Academic Planning'' estimates that costs in-state students of attending Rutgers would amount to $25,566 for an undergraduate living on-campus and $30,069 for a graduate student. For an out-of-state student, the costs rise to $38,228 and $39,069 respectively.<ref name="factbook" /> As of the 2024–2025 academic school year, the estimated cost of tuition for in-state students is $14,222, $33,734 for out-of-state students, and $15,332 for Room and Board.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rutgers Estimated Costs |url=https://scarlethub.rutgers.edu/financial-services/cost-of-attendance/rutgers-students-cost-of-attendance/ |access-date=February 17, 2025 |publisher=Rutgers University}}</ref>

In the 2010–2011 academic year, undergraduate students at Rutgers, through a combination of federal (53.5%), state (23.6%), university (18.1%), and private (4.8%) scholarships, loans, and grants, received $492,260,845 of [[Student financial aid (United States)|financial aid]]. 81.4% of all undergraduates, or 34,473 students, received some form of financial aid. During the same period, graduate students, through a combination of federal (61.9%), state (1.8%), university (34.5%), and private (1.9%) scholarships, loans, and grants received $182,384,256 of financial aid. 81.5% of all graduate students, or 11,852 students received some form of financial aid.<ref name="factbook" />

Alongside Pell and TAG grant which are well-known federal and state aids, Rutgers provides EOF grant, merit based scholarships such as SAS Excellence Award, Scarlet Guarantee, and many other forms of aid. Rutgers is an active participant of the EOF program giving financially or academically disadvantaged students resources to success. Furthermore, the Scarlet Guarantee covers any tuition cost for students whose aid might not if the student's household income is below a certain amount. Apart from need based aid, Rutgers University have a list of Scholarships which first-time or continuing students can apply to based upon GPA and/or extra-curriculum involvement. The University also offers multiple opportunities for students to earn while in college through Federal Work Study, on-campus employment, and internships.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://admissions.rutgers.edu/costs-and-aid#:~:text=Financial%20aid%20can%20include%20grants,funds%20available%20to%20the%20university | title=Costs and Aid &#124; Undergraduate Admissions }}</ref>

In 2007, the university's Office for Enrollment Management launched the Rutgers Future Scholars Program as an initiative to help 7th graders from low-income families achieve academic success and be the first in their families to go to college. The program targets students from the school systems of Rutgers's hometowns, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Newark, and Camden. Once admitted, the students receive mentoring and college prep courses each summer leading up to the year of their college applications. If admitted to the university, they are given a full tuition scholarship for four years of undergraduate study. The program has been very successful and currently admits as many as 200 new 7th graders each year with most of the original 200 now attending the university as undergraduates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/experimental_rutgers_program_helps_163_urban_kids_get_to_college.html|title=Rutgers experiment draws national attention by helping 163 urban kids get to college|work=NJ.com|date=August 4, 2013|access-date=May 29, 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113526/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/experimental_rutgers_program_helps_163_urban_kids_get_to_college.html|archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref>

===Academic Support===

Rutgers University have a variety of resources to help students succeed academically. Rutgers offers academic counselling to help students plan a study schedule, plan a schedule for the semester, decide their major, and complete their major requirements in time. The Learning Centers at Rutgers provide Peer Tutoring and Study Groups where students can work with or receive help from others who are taking or have taken the same courses. Certain courses provide extra tutoring like the Computer Science program offer tutoring from RUCATS(Rutgers Computing Academic Tutoring for Students). Students can use resources such as the Penji app to find available academic support. Rutgers offers these academic support resources motioned above for free to its students.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://success.rutgers.edu/|title=Resources Available for Student Success &#124; Success|website=success.rutgers.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | title=SPEC | url=https://spec.cs.rutgers.edu/programs/ | access-date=2025-03-17 | website=spec.cs.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

===Rankings===

{{Infobox US university ranking
| Wamo_NU = 62
| THE_WSJ = 136
| USNWR_NU = 40
| USNWR_W = 143
| Forbes = 49
| THES_W = 201–250
| QS_W = 328
| ARWU_W = 101–150
}}

In the 2025 ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' rankings of universities in the United States, the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers is tied for 41st among national universities overall and ranked tied for 15th among public universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=US News and World Report 2025 Best Colleges Rutgers University--New Brunswick |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rutgers-new-brunswick-6964 |website=US News and World Report}}</ref>  ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the Camden campus 127th among national universities, and 18th in top performers for social mobility.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rutgers-university-camden-4741/overall-rankings |title=Rutgers University–Camden Rankings |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=July 22, 2022 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802032241/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rutgers-university-camden-4741/overall-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref> The same ranking placed Rutgers-New Brunswick in the top 25 among all U.S. universities for the following graduate school programs: [[Library Science]] (7th), [[English studies|English]] (15th), [[Fine Arts]] (23rd), [[History]] (21st) with the subspecialties of [[Women's History]] and [[African-American History]] both ranked 1st, [[Social Work]] (17th), and [[Mathematics]] (22nd).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/rutgers-university-new-brunswick-186380/overall-rankings|title=Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick: Graduate School Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=October 14, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207064452/https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/rutgers-university-new-brunswick-186380/overall-rankings|url-status=live}}</ref>

''U.S. News'' ranked Rutgers-Camden 58th for graduate nursing programs, and 83rd among graduate public policy programs, and 49th for top public universities. Rutgers University-New Brunswick has consistently ranked 2nd for [[Philosophy]] according the [[QS World University Rankings]]<ref>{{cite web|title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Philosophy|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2021/philosophy|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Top Universities|language=en|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418075434/https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2021/philosophy|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=QS World University Rankings for Philosophy 2023 |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2023/philosophy |access-date=2023-03-24 |website=Top Universities |language=en}}</ref> and the [[Philosophical Gourmet Report|Philosophy Gourmet Report]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Overall Rankings – The Philosophical Gourmet Report|url=https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/overall-rankings/|access-date=2021-04-18|language=en-US|archive-date=November 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124003923/https://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/overall-rankings/|url-status=live}}</ref> QS ranks Rutgers 42nd nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/rutgers-university-new-brunswick|title=Rutgers University–New Brunswick|access-date=August 23, 2021|archive-date=August 2, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802032234/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/rutgers-university-new-brunswick|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranks Rutgers-New Brunswick 29th nationally and 50th globally as of 2020–2021.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cwur.org/2020-21.php|title=World University Rankings 2020-21 &#124; CWUR|access-date=June 9, 2020|archive-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608081107/https://cwur.org/2020-21.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
QS Top Universities ranked Rutgers-New Brunswick 264 in the world in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rutgers University–New Brunswick |work=Top Universities |access-date=February 15, 2022 |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/rutgers-university-new-brunswick |archive-date=February 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201044537/https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/rutgers-university-new-brunswick |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Rutgers Alumni House.jpg|thumb|left|Rutgers Alumni House in Camden]]

''U.S. News & World Report'' ranking placed Rutgers-New Brunswick 130th in Best Global Universities, 15th in public universities in the US (2025), 47th in Agricultural Sciences, 45th in Arts and Humanities (tie), 61st in Mathematics, 66th in Cell Biology, 63rd in Economics and Business, 99th in Computer Science, 37th in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and 23rd in Food Science and Technology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=February 15, 2022 |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey-new-brunswick-186380 |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215020649/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey-new-brunswick-186380 |url-status=live }}</ref> The RBS Master of Quantitative Finance (M.Q.F.) program, and the Master of Mathematical Finance (M.S.M.F) program in the department of mathematics, are ranked 7th in the United States.<ref>[http://www.advancedtrading.com/top-quant-schools-2012/rutgers-university Advanced Trading] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109061318/http://www.advancedtrading.com/top-quant-schools-2012/rutgers-university |date=November 9, 2012 }} Accessed December 24, 2012.</ref>

Under the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act of 2012, the [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]] was dissolved. Most of its schools, including [[Robert Wood Johnson Medical School]], [[New Jersey Medical School]], and [[New Jersey Dental School]], were merged into the new Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, formed in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |author=Tom Wright-Piersanti |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/nj_assembly_passes_bill_for_ru.html |title=N.J. lawmakers pass bill for Rutgers-Rowan-UMDNJ merger |date=June 29, 2012 |publisher=NJ.com |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307110702/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/nj_assembly_passes_bill_for_ru.html |archive-date=March 7, 2013 }}</ref>

===Libraries===
[[File:Clock on the campus of Rutgers University (2012).jpg|thumb|The Quad Clock on College Avenue campus]]
[[File:New Jersey Hall, Rutgers University, south view.jpg|thumb|[[New Jersey Hall]] on the New Brunswick College Avenue Campus, which was the home of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Biology, and Chemistry faculty, now houses the university's Department of Economics.]]
[[File:Cooper Library Camden NJ.JPG|thumb|The Digital Studies Center and Johnson Park at Rutgers University–Camden]]
[[File:Alexander Library.jpg|thumb|The [[Archibald S. Alexander Library]] is the main library at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.]]
[[File:Rutgers University Art Library.JPG|thumb|The art library on the College Avenue campus]]
The Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) system consists of twenty-six libraries, centers and reading rooms located on the university's four campuses. Housing a collection that includes 4,383,848 volumes (print and electronic), 4,605,896 microforms, and an array of electronic indexes and abstracts, full-text electronic journals, and research guides, Rutgers University Libraries ranks among the nation's top research libraries.<ref name="RULFactsandFigures">[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/about_rutgers_libraries Library Facts and Figures] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211015157/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/about_rutgers_libraries |date=December 11, 2014 }} Accessed September 15, 2014</ref> The [[American Library Association]] ranks the Rutgers University Library system as the 44th-largest library in the United States in terms of volumes held.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nation's Largest Libraries: A Listing by Volumes Held (ALA Library Fact Sheet 22)|url=http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet22|website=American Library Association|date=July 7, 2006|access-date=September 15, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014171755/http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet22|archive-date=October 14, 2012}}</ref>

The [[Archibald S. Alexander Library]] in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]], known to many students as "Club Alex", is the oldest and the largest library of the university, and houses an extensive [[humanities]] and [[social science]] collection.<ref name="RULFactsandFigures"/><ref name="AlexCollection">[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_coll_descript.shtml Archibald S. Alexander Library Collection Description] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212180547/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/alex_lib/alex_coll_descript.shtml |date=December 12, 2006 }} Accessed January 10, 2007</ref> It also supports the work of faculty and staff at four professional schools: the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Graduate School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Communication and Information. Alexander Library is also a [[Federal Depository Library Program|Federal Depository Library]], maintaining a large collection of government documents, which contains United States, New Jersey, foreign, and international government publications.<ref name="AlexCollection"/> The Paul Robeson Library in [[Rutgers–Camden|Camden]], serves Rutgers affiliates as well as the Camden campuses of [[Rowan University]] and [[Camden County College]] with a broad collection of volumes, and also houses an archive including the papers of poet [[Nick Virgilio]].

The Dana Library is the main research library for the Newark campus and is also home to the [[Institute of Jazz Studies]], one of the world's largest collections of jazz archives and research. The ''Library of Science and Medicine'' (LSM) on the Busch Campus in [[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]] houses the university's collection in [[behavioral science|behavioral]], [[Biology|biological]], [[Earth science|earth]], and [[pharmaceutical science]]s and [[engineering]]. LSM also serves as a designated depository library for government publications regarding science, and owns a U.S. patent collection and patent search facility.<ref>[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/lsm_lib/lsm_coll_descript.shtml LSM Collection Description] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209101038/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/lsm_lib/lsm_coll_descript.shtml |date=December 9, 2006 }} accessed January 10, 2007</ref> It was officially established as the Library of Science and Medicine in July 1964 although the beginning of the development of a library for science started in 1962. The current character of LSM is a university science library also serving a medical school.<ref name="LSMhistory">[http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/lsm_lib/lsm_history.shtml LSM History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209091037/http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/lsm_lib/lsm_history.shtml |date=December 9, 2006 }} accessed January 10, 2007</ref>

On the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus, in addition to Alexander Library, many individual disciplines have their libraries, including art history, Chemistry, mathematics, music and physics. ''Special Collections and University Archives'' houses the Sinclair New Jersey Collection, manuscript collection, and rare book collection, as well as the university archives. Although located in the Alexander Library building, [[special collections]] and University Archives comprises a distinct unit unto itself. Also located within the Alexander Library is the ''East Asian Library'' which holds a sizable collection of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean monographs and periodicals. There are nine major libraries at the Rutgers- New Brunswick location which are the Alexander Library, Art Library, Carr Library, Chang Library, Douglass Library, Library of Science and Medicine, Math and Physics Library, School of Management and Labor Relations Library, and Special Collections & University Archives Library.<ref>[https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/new-brunswick/visit-study/locations/alexander-library Alexander Library], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025. "The Archibald S. Alexander Library, located on the College Avenue Campus, is the main social sciences and humanities library in New Brunswick. It is also home to Special Collections and University Archives and the East Asian Library."</ref> Both the Newark and Camden campuses have law libraries.<ref>[https://camden.rutgers.edu/research/facilities-libraries Facilities & Libraries], Rutgers-Camden. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://library.law.rutgers.edu/rutgers-law-library Rutgers Law Library], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

===Museums and collections===
[[File:Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.jpg|thumb|The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on Hamilton Street in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]]]]
Rutgers oversees several museums and collections that are open to the public.
* [[Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University|Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum]], on the College Avenue Campus maintains a collection of over 60,000 works of art, focusing on Russian and [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] art, French 19th-century art and [[United States of America|American]] 19th- and 20th-century art with a concentration on early-20th-century and contemporary prints.<ref>[http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/collections/ Zimmerli Art Museum: Collections] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060815073238/http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/collections/ |date=August 15, 2006 }} accessed August 8, 2006.</ref>
* [[Rutgers University Geology Museum]] in Geology Hall features exhibits on [[geology]] and [[anthropology]], with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey. The largest exhibits include a [[dinosaur]] [[fossil trackway|trackway]] from [[Towaco, New Jersey]]; a [[mastodon]] from [[Salem County, New Jersey|Salem County]]; and a [[History of Ptolemaic Egypt|Ptolemaic]] era [[Egypt]]ian [[mummy]].<ref>[http://geology.rutgers.edu/museum.shtml Rutgers University Geology Museum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060807061644/http://geology.rutgers.edu/museum.shtml |date=August 7, 2006 }} accessed August 8, 2006.</ref>
* [[Rutgers Gardens]], which features {{convert|50|acre|ha}} of horticultural, display, and [[botanical gardens]], as well as [[arboretum]]s.<ref>[http://rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/director.html Rutgers Gardens: A Message from the Director] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830120917/http://rutgersgardens.rutgers.edu/director.html |date=August 30, 2006 }} accessed September 10, 2006.</ref>
* ''Stedman Art Gallery'' on the Camden campus is a collection of local, national, and international artwork and exhibits as part of the Rutgers Camden Center for the Arts.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rcca.camden.rutgers.edu/about/ | title=About – Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts | access-date=April 20, 2022 | archive-date=April 29, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429013001/https://rcca.camden.rutgers.edu/about/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Edison Papers'' is a collection of roughly 5 million documents related to Thomas Alva Edison. Nearly 175,000 of these documents are digitized and available to be viewed through their website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://edison.rutgers.edu/digital.htm |title=Digital Edition – The Edison Papers |publisher=Edison.rutgers.edu |date=October 28, 2016 |access-date=January 17, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124015602/http://edison.rutgers.edu/digital.htm |archive-date=January 24, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm|title=The Thomas A. Edison Papers|website=edison.rutgers.edu|access-date=March 21, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317144207/http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm|archive-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

Rutgers' facilities across the four campuses include a golf course, [[Rutgers Gardens|botanical gardens]], working agricultural, horse, dairy, and [[Student Sustainable Farm at Rutgers|sustainable farms]], a creamery, an [[Rutgers Ecological Preserve|ecological preserve]] with multiple use trails, television and radio studios, theaters, museums, athletic facilities, helipads and a [[makerspace]].<ref>[https://commencement.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2022-04/2022Comm_blue-map-back.pdf Rutgers-New Brunswick Overview Map], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://rutgersnewarkathletics.com/documents/2012/9/18/Grid_Map_2012.pdf?id=2576 Map of Rutgers University in Newark], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://admissions.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2022-01/campusmap_Admissions.pdf Rutgers University Camden Campus Map], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref> The [[New Jersey Museum of Agriculture]], established in 1984 in a {{Convert|30000|sqft|adj=on}} facility in [[North Brunswick, New Jersey|North Brunswick]], closed in 2011.<ref>Heyboer, Kelly. [https://www.nj.com/news/2011/02/new_jersey_museum_of_agricultu.html "N.J. Museum of Agriculture to shut down due to state budget cuts"], NJ Adavance Media for [[NJ.com]], February 12, 2011. Accessed January 1, 2025. "The New Jersey Museum of Agriculture’s trustees voted today to close, starting Monday, and begin the process of disbanding the non-profit organization, said Cooper Morris, head of the museum’s board..... The North Brunswick museum was founded in 1984 to chronicle the state’s farming history. The 30,000-square-foot facility on Rutgers University’s Cook Campus houses a collection of historic farming equipment and programs where schoolchildren view farm animals and learn about the origins of their food."</ref>

==Research==
[[File:Selman Waksman NYWTS.jpg|thumb|Prof. [[Selman A. Waksman]] (B.Sc. 1915), who was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Medicine]] for developing 22 antibiotics, including [[Streptomycin]], in his Rutgers University laboratory]]
[[File:Great Swamp Greenhouse photos Rutgers Tomato.JPG|thumb|A Rutgers tomato growing at a New Jersey greenhouse]]
Rutgers is home to the Rutgers University Center for [[Cognitive Science]], also known as RUCCS. This research center hosts researchers in [[psychology]], [[linguistics]], [[computer science]], [[philosophy]], [[electrical engineering]], and [[anthropology]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=ruccs.rutgers.edu |language=en-gb}}</ref>

It was at Rutgers that [[Selman Waksman]] discovered several [[antibiotic]]s, including [[actinomycin]], [[clavacin]], [[streptothricin]], grisein, [[neomycin]], [[Streptomyces purpureus|fradicin]], [[candicidin]], candidin, and others. Waksman, along with graduate student [[Albert Schatz (scientist)|Albert Schatz]], discovered [[streptomycin]]—a versatile antibiotic that was to be the first applied to cure [[tuberculosis]]. For this discovery, Waksman received the [[Nobel Prize for Medicine]] in 1952.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1952/waksman/facts/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}</ref>

Rutgers developed water-soluble sustained release polymers, [[Polyploidy|tetraploids]], [[robotic hands]], [[artificial insemination|artificial bovine insemination]], and the ceramic tiles for the [[Space Shuttle thermal protection system|heat shield]] on the [[Space Shuttle]]. In health-related field, Rutgers has the Environmental & Occupational Health Science Institute (EOHSI).<ref>{{Cite web |title=EOHSI Home - EOHSI environmental and occupational health sciences institute EOHSI - |url=https://eohsi.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=eohsi.rutgers.edu |language=en-US}}</ref>

Rutgers is also home to the RCSB [[Protein Data bank]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do |title=RCSB Protein Data Bank |publisher=Rcsb.org |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418160606/http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do |archive-date=April 18, 2015 }}</ref> 'an information portal to Biological Macromolecular Structures' cohosted with the [[San Diego Supercomputer Center]]. This database is the authoritative research tool for bioinformaticists using protein primary, secondary and tertiary structures worldwide.'<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=wwPDB consortium |last2=Burley |first2=Stephen K |last3=Berman |first3=Helen M |last4=Bhikadiya |first4=Charmi |last5=Bi |first5=Chunxiao |last6=Chen |first6=Li |last7=Costanzo |first7=Luigi Di |last8=Christie |first8=Cole |last9=Duarte |first9=Jose M |last10=Dutta |first10=Shuchismita |last11=Feng |first11=Zukang |date=2019-01-08 |title=Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data |url=https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/47/D1/D520/5144142 |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |language=en |volume=47 |issue=D1 |pages=D520–D528 |doi=10.1093/nar/gky949 |issn=0305-1048 |pmc=6324056 |pmid=30357364 |access-date=May 10, 2022 |archive-date=August 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802032236/https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/47/D1/D520/5144142 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rutgers is home to the Rutgers Cooperative Research & Extension office, which is run by the Agricultural and Experiment Station with the support of the local government. The institution provides research & education to the local farming and agro-industrial community in 19 of the 21 counties of the state and educational outreach programs offered through the [[New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Office of Continuing Professional Education]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rutgers NJAES Office of Continuing Professional Education (Rutgers OCPE) – Continuing Education Training and Service Excellence for Over 100 Years |url=https://www.cpe.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=www.cpe.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

[[File:Life Sciences Building, Rutgers University.jpg|thumb|The Life Sciences and Genetics Building]]
Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository (RUCDR) is the largest university-based repository in the world and has received awards worth more than $57.8 million from the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH). One will fund genetic studies of mental disorders and the other will support investigations into the causes of digestive, liver, and kidney diseases, and diabetes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2008/10/nih-awards-rutgers-c-20081021 |title=NIH Awards Rutgers Cell and DNA Repository $57.8 Million |publisher=News.rutgers.edu |date=October 27, 2008 |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818115644/http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2008/10/nih-awards-rutgers-c-20081021 |archive-date=August 18, 2012 }}</ref>

==Student life==
The student body at Rutgers University is highly diverse, with students representing over 100 countries and numerous cultural backgrounds.<ref>Rutgers University. (2023). Diversity & Inclusion. Retrieved from https://diversity.rutgers.edu/</ref>
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2023<ref>{{cite web |title= Student Enrollment|url=https://oirap.rutgers.edu/StudentEnrollment.html|website=College Scorecard|access-date=July 27, 2025}}</ref>
|-
! Race and ethnicity
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|31|%|2||background:cyan}}
|-
| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|26|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|18|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|10|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[International student]]
|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2||background:#008080}}
|-
| [[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races]]
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:violet}}
|-
| Other
|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2||background:grey}} 
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]<ref>{{cite web |title= College Scorecard: Rutgers University-New Brunswick|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school?186380-Rutgers-University-New-Brunswick|website=College Scorecard|access-date=July 27, 2025}}</ref>
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|28|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| [[Affluence in the United States|Affluent]]{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|72|%|2||background:black}}
|}

===Residential life===
[[File:Vorhees Chapel.jpg|thumb|The Voorhees Chapel is a notable landmark on the Douglass campus at Rutgers; Douglass was founded as an all-women's college in 1918, but now houses co-ed dormitories.]]
[[File:330CooperStRutgersCamden.JPG|thumb|330 Cooper student housing on the Camden campus]]
[[File:Demarest Hall front.JPG|thumb|[[Demarest Hall]] dormitory on the New Brunswick campus]]
Rutgers University offers a variety of housing options. On the [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]]-Piscataway campus, students are given the option of on-campus housing in both traditional [[dorm]]s or apartments. Freshman students, however, are allowed only a dorm, while upperclassmen have a wider array of on-campus housing choices, like apartments, but must apply for on-campus housing through the Rutgers online lottery process. Most students seeking on-campus housing will be accommodated with a space and sophomores are guaranteed housing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ruoncampus.rutgers.edu/selection/rising-sophomore-preference/|title=Rising Sophomore Preference for Housing (3-Year Phase)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629155241/http://ruoncampus.rutgers.edu/selection/rising-sophomore-preference/|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref> Many Rutgers students opt to rent apartments or houses off-campus within the city of New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/about/facts-figures|title=Facts & Figures|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629155433/https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/about/facts-figures|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=dead|access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref> Similar setups are to be found in Rutgers–Newark and Rutgers–Camden.

In 2008, ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked [[Rutgers University–Newark]] the most diverse university campus in the United States.<ref>[http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college RankingsAndReviews.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822063335/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college |date=August 22, 2008 }} from ''U.S. News & World Report'' accessed September 9, 2006</ref> Because the area of Rutgers' New Brunswick-Piscataway campus—which is composed of several constituent colleges and professional schools—is sprawled across six municipalities, the individual campuses are connected by an inter-campus bus system. The [[Rutgers Buses|Rutgers bus system]] is the second-largest bus service in New Jersey, transporting six million passengers on an annual basis.<ref>[https://www.metro-magazine.com/10025178/rutgers-selects-first-transit-as-bus-operator "Rutgers selects First Transit as bus operator"], ''Metro magazine'', November 15, 2010. Accessed January 1, 2025. "In July 2011, First Transit will begin operating New Brunswick, N.J.-based Rutgers University’s Campus Bus Service, providing students with efficient and reliable transportation in and around the campus. The university’s Campus Bus Service is the second largest operating bus system in New Jersey, transporting more than six million passengers annually and providing more than 70,000 passenger trips per day."</ref>

===Security and emergency services===
Services provided by the university include [[Rutgers University Police Department|Rutgers Police]], Emergency Medical Services, an emergency management office, [[Rutgers Buses|bus and shuttle service]], inter- and intra-campus mail, and occupational and environmental health and safety.<ref>[https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/rupd Rutgers University Police Department], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://ipo.rutgers.edu/publicsafety/ems Emergency Medical Services], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref><ref>[https://ipo.rutgers.edu/transportation Transportation Services], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

===Student organizations and activities===
[[File:Rutgers spelled out in hedge on College Ave campus New Brunswick NJ.JPG|thumb|Shrubbery at the College Avenue campus]]
[[File:Rutgers Law School in Newark 2.jpg|thumb|Rutgers Law School on the Newark Campus]]
Rutgers University has a student government that controls funding to student groups. The student government is made up of campus councils and professional school councils. Those councils then send representatives to the student assembly as well as the university senate. An example of these campus councils is the University College Council, which represents adult, part-time, and military veteran students.<ref>[https://sca.rutgers.edu/leadership-opportunities/student-government/governing-councils Governing Councils], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

Rutgers hosts over 700 [[student organization]]s; among the first student groups was the first [[college newspaper]] in the [[United States]]. ''The Political Intelligencer and New Jersey Adviser'' began publication at Queen's College in 1783, and ceased operation in 1785.<ref name="years" /> Continuing this tradition is the university's current college newspaper, ''[[The Daily Targum]]'', established in 1869, which is the second-oldest college newspaper published in the United States, after ''[[The Dartmouth]]'' (1843). Both poet [[Joyce Kilmer]] and economist [[Milton Friedman]] served as editors. Also included are ''[[The Medium (Rutgers)|The Medium]]'', a weekly satirical newspaper billed as Rutgers Entertainment Weekly, ''[[Rutgers Centurion]]'', a conservative newspaper, the ''[[Rutgers University Glee Club]]'', a male [[choral]] singing group established in 1872 (among the oldest in the country). Rutgers a cappella groups have routinely placed well in the [[International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella]], including in 2010 when The OrphanSporks placed second in the semifinals.<ref>"ICCA Results" {{Cite web| url=http://varsityvocals.com/acappella-results.html | title=2010 Results | access-date=December 9, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129095211/http://www.varsityvocals.com/acappella-results.html | archive-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref> Governed by the Rutgers University Student Assembly and funded by student fees, students can organize groups for practically any political ideology or issue, ethnic or religious affiliation, academic subject, activity or hobby.<ref>[https://rusa.rutgers.edu Rutgers University Student Assembly], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025. "The Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) is the official governing body for undergraduate students at the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses. RUSA advocates on behalf of student concerns regarding official policies and priorities; provides a forum for the open expression of student ideas; allocates student fee funding to over 400 student organizations through the RUSA Allocations Board."</ref>

Rutgers University is home to chapters of [[List of Rutgers University Greek organizations|many Greek organizations]], and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life. Several [[fraternities and sororities]] maintain houses for their chapters in the area of Union Street (known familiarly as "Frat Row") in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]], within blocks of Rutgers' College Avenue Campus. Chapters of [[Zeta Psi]] and [[Delta Phi]] were organized at Rutgers as early as 1845. The Alpha Rho chapter of [[Chi Psi]] fraternity, founded at Rutgers College in 1879, was the first fraternity at Rutgers to own a fraternity house, purchased in 1887 and still in use by the fraternity today. There are over fifty fraternities and sororities on the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus, ranging from traditional to historically [[African-American]], [[Hispanic]], [[Multiculturalism|Multicultural]], and [[Asian people|Asian]] interest organizations.<ref>[http://ofsa.rutgers.edu/ Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060908070120/http://www.ofsa.rutgers.edu/ |date=September 8, 2006 }} at Rutgers University. Retrieved September 9, 2006.</ref> The New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University has a chapter of the only active co-ed pre-medical fraternity, [[Phi Delta Epsilon]], {{as of|2008|lc=y}}.<ref>[http://getinvolved.rutgers.edu/fraternities-and-sororities Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823133847/http://getinvolved.rutgers.edu/fraternities-and-sororities |date=August 23, 2009 }} at Rutgers University. Retrieved October 9, 2008.</ref> The Rutgers chapter of  [[Alpha Sigma Phi]] was closed in October 2025 after a student was left unconscious by a [[hazing]] ritual.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Otterman |first=Sharon |date=2025-10-25 |title=Rutgers Fraternity Is Closed After Student Is Injured in Hazing Episode |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/nyregion/rutgers-fraternity-closed-hazing.html |access-date=2025-10-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en}}</ref>

It is Rutgers's tradition for students to participate in one of the largest student-run philanthropic events in New Jersey, the Embrace Kids Foundation for children with cancer and blood disorders. The annual Dance Marathon involves hundreds of dancers and volunteers. In 2015, the marathon collected $692,046.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rutgers|title=Fraternities and Sororities|url=http://getinvolved.rutgers.edu/fraternities-and-sororities|website=Rutgers University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823133847/http://getinvolved.rutgers.edu/fraternities-and-sororities|archive-date=August 23, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Rutgers Dance Marathon|title=Rutgers University Dance Marathon|url=http://marathon.rutgers.edu/|website=Rutgers Marathon|publisher=Rutgers University|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608104335/http://marathon.rutgers.edu/|archive-date=June 8, 2015|access-date=April 25, 2015}}</ref>

Rutgers has five vocal ensembles: Voorhees Choir (the New Brunswick campus's women's ensemble), Kirkpatrick Choir (the university's most selective coed ensemble), [[Rutgers University Glee Club|Glee Club]] (New Brunswick's most esteemed tenor-bass ensemble),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sites.rutgers.edu/glee-club/about-us/|title=About Us – Glee Club|website=Rutgers|access-date=2025-02-17}}</ref> University Choir (a larger mixed choir in New Brunswick), and the Rutgers Concert Choir (Camden's vocal ensemble of faculty and students).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ensembles {{!}} Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts |url=https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/degrees-programs/music/ensembles/ |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Mason Gross School of the Arts |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=RU Concert Choir |url=https://camden.rutgers.edu/event/ru-concert-choir |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=camden.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

===Traditions===
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The [[Grease Trucks]] are a group of truck-based food vendors located at various locations on the New Brunswick campus. They serve traditional grill fare and Middle-Eastern specialties. Three Rutgers Grease Trucks remain on the College Avenue Campus, while the remaining two were moved to the Cook/Douglass Campus.<ref>Heyboer, Kelly. [https://www.nj.com/news/2013/08/rutgers_university_seals_deal_to_move_beloved_grease_trucks.html "Rutgers University reaches tentative deal to move beloved grease trucks"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], August 14, 2013. Accessed January 1, 2025. "The five iconic food trucks parked in Lot 8 on College Avenue will begin moving out Thursday to make way for construction of an $84 million student apartment complex. Tomorrow morning, the trucks can begin serving their "fat" sandwiches in their new locations, provided they have finalized their paperwork with the university, said Antonio Calcado, Rutgers’ vice president of university facilities and capital planning.... Calcado, the Rutgers vice president overseeing the relocation, said two grease trucks will move a few blocks away to a university-owned site near the corner of Senior Street and College Avenue. One truck will move to George Street, near Rutgers’ dormitories overlooking the Raritan River. The remaining two trucks will be on Rutgers’ Douglass campus, near the student center, and on the Cook campus, near Neilson Dining Hall."</ref>

The [[Dance Marathon]] is a student-run fundraisers. Hundreds of dancers pledge to raise funds and remain standing for 32 hours. Rutgers has held this tradition since 1999 and to date has raised more than $1.3 million for the Embrace Kids Foundation and for other charities. In the two decades starting in 1998, the event had raised $5.8&nbsp;million for the Embrace Kids Foundation.<ref>Muscavage, Nick. [https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/college/rutgers/2017/03/31/rutgers-dance-marathon-gives-back-kids/99869686/ "Rutgers dance marathon gives back to kids"], ''[[Courier News]]'', March 31, 2017. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Since 1998, the Rutgers University Dance Marathon has raised over $5.8 million to Embrace Kids Foundation, McGinty said."</ref>

[[Rutgers Day]] is an annual festival established in 1906.<ref>Not to be confused with RutgersFest. Several violent incidents in 2011 led to the indefinite cancellation of that event. President Richard McCormick, in a letter to the Rutgers community, commented: "The problems that occur following 
RutgersFest have grown beyond our capacity to manage them, and the only responsible course of action is to cancel the event."{{cite web|last=McCormick|first=Richard L.|title=In Regard to RutgersFest|url=http://richardlmccormick.rutgers.edu/writings/letters/regard-rutgersfest|access-date=April 19, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121093701/http://richardlmccormick.rutgers.edu/writings/letters/regard-rutgersfest|archive-date=January 21, 2015}},
{{cite web|title=Rutgers to permanently cancel annual Rutgersfest concert|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/rutgers_to_cancel_annual_rutge.html|date=April 19, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110904051303/http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/rutgers_to_cancel_annual_rutge.html|archive-date=September 4, 2011}}</ref>

===Mottos, colors and mascots===
Rutgers University's motto {{lang|la|Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra}} is a modification of [[Utrecht University]]'s motto {{lang|la|Sol iustitiae illustra nos}} gleaned from a literal Latin Bible translation of [[Book of Malachi|Malachi 4:2]] and highlights the historic connection of these two universities.<ref>[https://www.rutgers.edu/news/commencement-pageantry-and-color "Commencement Pageantry and Color"], Rutgers Today, May 6, 2010. Accessed January 1, 2025. "The University Seal is an adaptation of that of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, an ancient seat of learning, whose Latin motto surrounding a sunburst is Sol iustitiae nos illustra – 'Sun of righteousness, shine upon us' – based on two biblical texts, Malachi 4:2 and Matthew 13:43."</ref>

Rutgers University's only school color is [[Scarlet (color)|scarlet]]. Students had sought to make [[orange (colour)|orange]] the school color, citing Rutgers' [[Netherlands|Dutch]] heritage and about the [[Prince of Orange]]. The Rutgers student publication ''Targum'' (which would become the ''Daily Targum'') proposed that scarlet be adopted in May 1869, claiming that it was a striking color and because the scarlet ribbon was easily obtained. During the [[1869 college football season|first intercollegiate football game]] with [[Princeton University|Princeton]] on November 6, 1869, the players from Rutgers wore scarlet-colored [[turban]]s and [[handkerchief]]s to distinguish them as a team from the Princeton players.<ref>Hyman, Vicky. [https://www.nj.com/insidejersey/2010/10/how_new_jersey_saved_civilizat_21.html "How New Jersey Saved Civilization... the first intercollegiate football game"]. NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], October 23, 2010. Accessed January 1, 2025. "We won’t exaggerate the significance of the Nov. 6, 1869, football game between Rutgers and Princeton, a high-spirited match in which the 25 or so Rutgers players fashioned turbans from scarlet scarves — the only concession to uniforms — and the losing Princeton team was, by one account, chased from New Brunswick."</ref><ref name="tradition" /> The board of trustees officially made scarlet the [[school color]] in 1900.<ref name="tradition" />

In its early days, Rutgers athletes were known informally as "The Scarlet" after the school color, or as "Queensmen" after the institution's first name, Queen's College.<ref name="tradition" /> In 1925, the [[mascot]] was changed to Chanticleer, a fighting rooster from the [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[fable]] ''[[Reynard the Fox]]'' (''Le Roman de Renart'') which was used by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] in the ''[[Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref name="tradition" /> At the time, the student humor magazine at Rutgers was called ''Chanticleer'', and one of its early arts editors, [[Ozzie Nelson]] (later of ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'' fame) was quarterback of the Rutgers team from 1924 to 1926.<ref name="ReferenceA">Scarlet Letter 1924 (Rutgers University yearbook), Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries.</ref> The Chanticleer mascot was unveiled at a football game against [[Lafayette College]], in which Lafayette was also introducing a new mascot, a [[leopard]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/> However, the choice of Chanticleer as a mascot was often the subject of ridicule because of its association with "being [[chicken]]."<ref>[http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~class51/november48.html November 1948] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205004936/http://tigernet.princeton.edu/~class51/november48.html |date=February 5, 2012 }} in ''Fifty Years Ago: Class of 1951'' at published by the Princeton Class of 1951, edited by J. Sprigg Duvall (no further authorship information available). Accessed January 12, 2007.</ref> In 1955, the mascot was changed to the Scarlet Knight after a campus-wide election, beating out other contenders such as "Queensmen," the "Scarlet," the "Red Lions," the "Redmen" and the "Flying Dutchmen."<ref name="tradition">[http://www.scarletknights.com/tradition/tradition.asp Tradition] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924172749/http://www.scarletknights.com/tradition/tradition.asp |date=September 24, 2014 }} at www.scarletknights.com. Published by Rutgers University Athletic Department (no further authorship information available), accessed September 10, 2006.</ref><ref>Series of articles in the spring of 1955 issues of the ''Rutgers Targum'' (then printed weekly), the Rutgers University campus newspaper. Microfilm records v.94:no.36-v.104:no.58 Apr 17,1953 – Dec 5, 1972, Archibald S. Alexander Library, Current Periodicals and Microforms Department, Rutgers University, [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]</ref> Earlier proposed nicknames included "Pioneers" and "Cannoneers." When [[Harvey Harman]], then coach of the football team was asked why he supported changing the Rutgers mascot, he was quoted as saying, "Awnish You can call it the Chanticleer, you can call it a [[fighting cock]], you can call it any damn thing you want, but everybody knows it's a chicken."<ref>Quoted in the ''Rutgers Targum'' (April 8, 1955). Microfilm records v.94:no.36-v.104:no.58 Apr 17,1953 – Dec 5, 1972 (1 roll) Archibald S. Alexander Library, Current Periodicals and Microforms Department, Rutgers University, [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]</ref> Harman later is said to have bought the first "Scarlet Knight" mascot costume for the 1955 season, which was to be his final season as football coach at Rutgers.<ref>Editorial in the ''Rutgers Targum'' (September 9, 1955). Microfilm records v.94:no.36-v.104:no.58 Apr 17,1953 – Dec 5, 1972, (1 roll) Archibald S. Alexander Library, Current Periodicals and Microforms Department, Rutgers University, [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]</ref> Today, the Scarlet Knight costumed mascot appearing at Rutgers football and basketball games and other campus events is called "Sir Henry".<ref name=SirHenry/>

In later years the Camden and Newark campuses adopted their mascots, the Scarlet Raptor (Camden) and the Scarlet Raider (Newark).<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dailytargum.com/article/2014/10/petition-proposes-single-mascot-for-all-rutgers-campuses | title=Petition proposes single mascot for all Rutgers campuses | date=October 22, 2014 | access-date=April 26, 2022 | archive-date=December 23, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223043453/http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2014/10/petition-proposes-single-mascot-for-all-rutgers-campuses | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Athletics==
{{Main|Rutgers Scarlet Knights}}
{{See also|List of college athletic programs in New Jersey, USA#Division I}}
[[File:Rutgers Scarlet Knights logo.svg|thumb|The Rutgers "R" logo debuted in 1998 and has represented the school in athletics since.]]
[[File:1882RutgersFootballTeam.jpg|thumb|The [[Rutgers Scarlet Knights football|Rutgers college football team]] in 1882]]
[[File:Rutgers Rowing Men's Varsity Eight.png|thumb|The Rutgers-New Brunswick men's varsity eight rowing on the [[Raritan River]]]]

[[File:High Point Solutions Stadium-Rutgers University.jpg|thumb|[[SHI Stadium]], the home field of Scarlet Knights football]]
The [[Rutgers–Camden]] athletic teams are called the [[Rutgers–Camden Scarlet Raptors|Scarlet Raptors]]. The [[Rutgers–Newark]] athletic teams are called the [[Rutgers–Newark Scarlet Raiders|Scarlet Raiders]]. The [[scarlet (color)#School colors|Scarlet]] Raiders and the Scarlet Raptors both compete within [[NCAA Division III]].<ref>[https://www.rutgers.edu/athletics Athletics], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

Rutgers was among the first American institutions to engage in intercollegiate athletics, and participated in a small circle of schools that included [[Yale University]], [[Columbia University]], and long-time rival, [[Princeton University]] (then called the College of New Jersey). The four schools met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in [[Manhattan]] on October 19, 1873, to establish a set of rules governing their intercollegiate competition, and particularly to codify the new game of [[College football|football]]. Although invited, [[Harvard University|Harvard]] chose not to attend.<ref>[http://www.the-game.org/history-originsto1889.htm A History of American Football until 1889] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109004510/http://www.the-game.org/history-originsto1889.htm |date=January 9, 2015 }} accessed September 10, 2006.</ref> In the early years of intercollegiate athletics, the schools that participated in these athletic events were located solely in the American Northeast and by the turn of the 20th century, colleges and universities across the United States began to participate.<ref>Lewis, Guy. [https://history.msu.edu/hst329/files/2015/05/LewisGuy-TheBeginning.pdf "The Beginning of Organized Collegiate Sport"], American Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 2, Part 1 (Summer, 1970), pp. 222-229. Accessed January 1, 2025. "By 1876, when collegians had created associations for conducting intercollegiate competition in crew, baseball, track and field and football, organized sport was well established at most of the leading institutions in the East. Formalized participation in crew began in the 1840s, baseball in the 1850s, football in the 1860s and track and field in the 1870s, but widespread adoption of these sports as campus activities did not take place until interest in them had been generated by intercollegiate contests."</ref>

Rutgers University is referred to as "the birthplace of [[college football]]" as the first [[1869 college football season#First football game ever played|intercollegiate football game was held]] on College Field between Rutgers and Princeton on November 6, 1869, in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]], on a plot of ground behind where the present-day [[College Avenue Gymnasium]] now stands. Rutgers won the game, with a score of 6 runs to Princeton's 4.<ref name="years" /><ref name="tradition"/><ref>[http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910 NFL History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102045951/http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910 |date=January 2, 2008 }} at the National Football League website. Retrieved September 10, 2006.</ref> A Rutgers-Princeton rivalry still exists today. According to [[Parke H. Davis]], the 1869 Rutgers football team shared the national title with Princeton.<ref>[https://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html College Football Past National Championships] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826121836/http://www.ncaa.org/champadmin/ia_football_past_champs.html |date=August 26, 2006 }} at the National Collegiate Athletic Association website. Retrieved December 29, 2006.</ref> (This game is believed to have been closer to soccer than to modern American football.)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910 |title=NFL History by Decade |work=Nfl.com |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102045951/http://www.nfl.com/history/chronology/1869-1910 |archive-date=January 2, 2008 }}</ref>

In 1864, rowing became the first organized sport at Rutgers. Six-mile races were held on the Raritan River among six-oared boats. In 1870, Rutgers held its first intercollegiate competition, against the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, the then top-ranked amateur crew of the time. Women's crew was added to the program in 1974. Financial support of the men's crew program was discontinued by the university in 2006, though the crew continues to compete (funded entirely by alumni and private support) at a high level in the [[Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges]] conference.<ref>[https://scarletknights.com/sports/2023/8/15/legacy-sports-mens-crew.aspx Men's Rowing History], [[Rutgers Scarlet Knights]]. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Since the start in 1864, Rutgers has built a strong crew program consisting of heavyweight and lightweight men.  As part of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges, Rutgers competes against the best crews in the country."</ref>

The first intercollegiate athletic event at Rutgers was a baseball game on May 2, 1866, against Princeton in which they suffered a 40–2 loss.<ref>Sargeant, Keith. [https://www.nj.com/rutgersbasketball/2016/05/rutgers_baseball_princeton_150_years.html "150 years ago today Rutgers played its 1st intercollegiate sports event (Vintage photos)"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], May 5, 2016. Accessed January 1, 2025. "On May 5, 1866 -- 20 years after baseball was born on a field 25 miles north in Hoboken and only 13 months after the Civil War came to an end -- eight members of the so-called Rutgers Base Ball Club traveled to the Princeton Grounds and lost, 40-2, to the 'Nassaus.'"</ref>

Beginning in 1866, Rutgers was unaffiliated with any formal athletic conference and thus classified as "independent" for eighty years. From 1946 to 1951, the university was a member of the Middle Three Conference, and from 1958 to 1961, was a member of the [[Middle Atlantic Conferences|Middle Atlantic Conference]].<ref name="nationalchamps">[http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/rutgers_database.htm Rutgers football history database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014235316/http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/rutgers_database.htm |date=October 14, 2014 }} at NationalChamps.net. Retrieved January 3, 2007.</ref> In 1978, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights became a member of the [[Atlantic 10]] conference. In 1991, it joined the [[Big East Conference (1979–2013)|Big East Conference]] for football. All sports programs at Rutgers New Brunswick subsequently became affiliated with the Big East in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bigeast.org/schools/rutu/bige-rutu-body.html |title=Rutgers |access-date=August 12, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812031654/http://www.bigeast.org/schools/rutu/bige-rutu-body.html |archive-date=August 12, 2007  }} at BigEast.org Official Site of the Big East Conference. Published by the Big East Conference (no further authorship information available). Retrieved January 12, 2007.</ref>

The first intercollegiate competition in [[Ultimate (sport)|Ultimate Frisbee]] was held between students from Rutgers and [[Princeton University|Princeton]] on November 6, 1972, to mark the one hundred third anniversary of the first intercollegiate football game. Rutgers won 29–27.<ref name="Frisbee">[http://failuremag.com/feature/article/discography/ "Discography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109003650/http://failuremag.com/feature/article/discography/ |date=January 9, 2015 }} from ''Failure Magazine''. Retrieved December 31, 2013.</ref> The Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's Basketball Team was among the "Final Four" and ended the 1976 season ranked fourth in the United States, after an 86–70 loss against the [[University of Michigan]] in the semifinals, and a 106–92 loss against [[UCLA]] in the consolation round of the [[1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shrpsports.com/collbask/1976.htm |title=1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament |access-date=January 19, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119164119/http://www.shrpsports.com/collbask/1976.htm |archive-date=January 19, 2008  }} at shrpsports.com. Retrieved December 29, 2006.</ref>

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are members of the [[Big Ten Conference]], a collegiate athletic conference consisting of 14 colleges and universities from the [[Midwestern United States|Midwestern]] and East Coast regions of the United States. The Big Ten Conference is a member of the [[Bowl Championship Series]]. Rutgers currently fields 27 intercollegiate sports programs and is a [[Division I (NCAA)|Division I]] school as sanctioned by the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]. Rutgers fields thirty teams in NCAA Division I sanctioned sports, including [[College football|football]], [[baseball]], [[basketball]], [[Sport rowing|crew]], [[Cross country running|cross country]], [[fencing (sport)|fencing]], [[field hockey]], [[golf]], [[gymnastics]], [[lacrosse]], [[soccer]], [[softball]], [[tennis]], [[track and field]], [[Swimming (sport)|swimming]] and [[Diving (sport)|diving]], [[Collegiate wrestling|wrestling]], and [[volleyball]].<ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/athletics/ Rutgers Athletics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090823141739/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/athletics/ |date=August 23, 2009 }}. Retrieved September 24, 2006</ref>

The Scarlet Knights have won five Big East Conference tournament titles: men's [[soccer]] (1997), men's [[track & field]] (2005), [[baseball]] (2000, 2007), and [[women's basketball]] (2007). Several other teams have won regular season titles but failed to win the conference's championship tournament.<ref name="Big East">{{cite web|url=http://www.bigeast.org/ot/bige-records.html |title=Big East Championship Records |access-date=May 20, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520193718/http://www.bigeast.org/ot/bige-records.html |archive-date=May 20, 2007  }} published by the Big East Athletic Conference. Retrieved August 8, 2006.</ref>

Although the Rutgers Scarlet Knights' football team had losing seasons in 2016 and 2015 (won-lost records of 2–10 and 4–8, respectively)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/rutgers/ |title=Rutgers Scarlet Knights School History |publisher=Sports Reference |access-date=December 14, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212230800/http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/rutgers/ |archive-date=December 12, 2010 }}</ref> it achieved success previously, being invited to the [[Insight Bowl]] on December 27, 2005, in which they lost 45 to 40 against [[Arizona State University]].<ref>[https://www.espn.com/college-football/bowls05/bowls?game=insight Insight Bowl – December 27, 2005] . Retrieved September 24, 2006</ref> This was Rutgers' first bowl appearance since the December 16, 1978, loss against Arizona State, 34–18, at the [[Garden State Bowl]]. The 2006 football season also saw Rutgers being ranked within the Top 25 teams in major college football polls. After the November 9, 2006, victory over the 3rd ranked, undefeated [[University of Louisville|Louisville Cardinals]], Rutgers jumped up to seventh in the [[AP Poll]], eighth in the [[USA Today Coaches Poll|USA Today/Coaches poll]], seventh in the [[Harris Interactive College Football Poll|Harris Interactive Poll]], and sixth in the [[Bowl Championship Series]] rankings. These were Rutgers' highest rankings in the football polls since they were ranked fifteenth in 1961. Rutgers ended the season 11–2 after winning the inaugural [[Texas Bowl]] on December 28, 2006, defeating the [[Kansas State Wildcats|Wildcats]] of [[Kansas State University]] by a score of 37–10 and finishing the season ranked twelfth<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 January 2007 |title=FBC T25 AP Expanded Top 25 / BC-FBC--T25-AP Expanded Top 25,0445 |id={{small|<nowiki>RF: "7", IPC: "tagdsz | sel----- | catz", IPD: "Sports statistics | FBC T25 AP Expanded Top 25 | D8MIDFQO6"</nowiki>}}, {{Factiva|APRS000020070110e31a0011g}} |agency=Associated Press |mode=cs2}} / {{Cite news |date=January 9, 2007 |title=Top 25 in AP College Football Poll |department=Sports |id={{small|<nowiki>RF: "5", IPC: "tagladsn | sellala- | cats", IPD: "AP State Wires: Louisiana | Sports stories, game summaries | FBC T25 AP Top 25 | D8MHOVL00"</nowiki>}}, {{Factiva|APRS000020070109e319000iq}}, {{NewsBank text|1414505379364550}} |agency=Associated Press |mode=cs2}}; published in e.g.: {{Cite news |date=9 January 2007 |title=Final AP Top 25 NCAA football poll |work=Deseret (Morning) News |page=D02 |id={{Factiva|DN00000020070109e31900043}}, {{NewsBank text|1168F782A8A95128}} |mode=cs2}}; {{Cite news |date=10 January 2007 |title=College football |work=Charleston Gazette |page=P2B |id={{Factiva|CGAZ000020070110e31a0004o}}, {{NewsBank text|11695BA3ED48E928}} |mode=cs2}}; ''Bismarck Tribune''; ''Joplin Globe''; ''Kansas City Star''; ''Lawton Constitution''; ''Press-Register'' (Mobile, AL); ''Reading Eagle''; ''Repository'' (Canton, OH); ''State'' (Columbia, SC); ''Sun News'' (Myrtle Beach, SC); ''Advocate'' (Baton Rouge, LA); ''Erie Times-News''; ''Skagit Valley Herald''; ''Yakima Herald-Republic''; ''York Dispatch''; etc.</ref> in the final AP poll of sportswriters, the team's highest season-ending ranking.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070109/FRONT01/70109002 |title=Rutgers ends up No. 12 in final AP poll: Ranking is highest finish in program history |newspaper=[[Courier News (New Jersey)|Courier-News]]|date= January 9, 2007}} {{Dead link|date=May 2009|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

Under Head Coach [[C. Vivian Stringer]], the women's basketball program is among the elite programs in the country as they remain consistently ranked in the Top 25, consistently making the NCAA Women's Championship Tournament, and sometimes winning the Big East regular season championship. In 2006–2007, the Scarlet Knights won their first-ever Big East Conference Tournament Championship. The program has been highly competitive since its inception, winning the 1982 AIAW National Championship, reaching the 2000 Final Four, and reaching the Final Four and national championship game in 2007.<ref>[https://scarletknights.com/sports/2018/3/27/womens-basketball-history Women's Basketball History], [[Rutgers Scarlet Knights women's basketball]]. Accessed January 1, 2025.</ref>

The Scarlet Knights maintain athletic rivalries with other collegiate institutions. The university has historic rivalries with [[Princeton University]], [[Columbia University]] (formerly ''King's College''), [[Lafayette College]], [[Lehigh University]], and [[New York University]] originating from the early days of college football. While they maintain this rivalry in other sports, neither of them has met in football since 1980. Rutgers has a basketball rivalry with [[Seton Hall University]].<ref>[http://www.dailytargum.com/2.4986/rivalry-rising-1.1503166 "Rivalry Rising: With both teams lagging in the Big East, a new coach looks to revitalize Rutgers-Seton Hall"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807084442/http://www.dailytargum.com/2.4986/rivalry-rising-1.1503166 |date=August 7, 2011 }} by Brian Johnson in ''The Daily Targum'' (January 26, 2007). Retrieved January 28, 2007.</ref> [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] and the [[University of Maryland]] are the two schools with which Rutgers was developing rivalries within the Big Ten.<ref>Kratch, James. [https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2018/06/who_exactly_is_rutgers_main_rival_the_new_beat_wri.html "Who is Rutgers' top football rival: Penn State? Maryland? Princeton? New beat reporter investigates"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], June 11, 2018. Accessed January 1, 2025. "So consider Maryland your top rival, with Penn State a distant second and Army, Syracuse and Temple following after that."</ref>

In the fall of 2007, six Rutgers New Brunswick/Piscataway NCAA Division I sports were discontinued by the university, including men's swimming and diving, men's heavyweight and lightweight crew, men's tennis, and men's and women's fencing. Some continued as club teams, while some were disbanded completely. The university claims this change was due to budget cuts, while others claim it was a politically motivated move designed to protest state funding changes.<ref>Jones, Richard G. [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/education/23rutgers.html "Dropping a Few Sports at Rutgers, and Putting Pressure on Trenton"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 23, 2006. Accessed January 1, 2025. "But despite success both in competition and in classrooms, officials at the university announced last week that, beginning in the fall of 2007, it would eliminate six varsity sports: men’s tennis, men’s fencing, women’s fencing, men’s swimming and diving, men’s heavyweight crew, and men’s lightweight crew."</ref>

In November 2012, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, along with Louisville, Connecticut, and Cincinnati left the Big East to form the [[American Athletic Conference]]. Syracuse and Pittsburgh have decided to enter the Atlantic Coast Conference, while West Virginia entered the Big 12 Conference, taking effect as of the 2012–2013 season. Rutgers decided to leave American for the [[Big Ten Conference]], effective July 1, 2014. Rutgers surpassed [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] as the Big Ten's easternmost school.<ref>McMurphy, Brett. [https://www.espn.com/new-york/college-sports/story/_/id/10445006/rutgers-pay-115-million-exit-fee-leave-aac "Rutgers to pay $11.5M exit fee"], ''[[ESPN]]'', February 12, 2014. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Rutgers will pay an $11.5 million exit fee to leave the American Athletic Conference, the school and league announced Wednesday. The Scarlet Knights and the AAC reached an agreement allowing Rutgers to leave the league and join the Big Ten Conference, as planned, on July 1."</ref>

On March 23, 2019, [[Nick Suriano]] and [[Anthony Ashnault]] won national titles for Rutgers Wrestling and provided Rutgers with their first 2 NCAA wrestling championships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/college/2019/03/23/nick-suriano-wins-rutgers-wrestling-first-national-title/3238148002/|title=Nick Suriano brings Rutgers wrestling its first national title|last=Cooper|first=Darren|website=North Jersey|language=en|access-date=2020-04-16}}</ref>

In 2021, the Rutgers men's basketball team was selected to participate in the NCAA tournament. This marked the program's first appearance in the tournament since 1991 and ending a 30-year-long streak that made the school the longest to have been excluded among major collegiate basketball programs.<ref>Carino, Jerry. [https://www.app.com/story/sports/college/rutgers/2021/03/14/march-madness-rutgers-basketball-ncaa-tournament/4679652001/ 'March Madness: Rutgers ends 30-year NCAA Tournament drought; will face Clemson"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', March 14, 2021. Accessed January 1, 2025. "The Scarlet Knights appeared in the March Madness bracket Sunday for the first time since 1991, ending the longest drought among Division I high-major men’s hoops programs."</ref>

In 2022, Rutgers men's lacrosse team was selected to participate in the [[2022 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship|NCAA Division I tournament]]. They defeated [[Harvard Crimson men's lacrosse|Harvard]] and the [[Penn Quakers men's lacrosse|University of Pennsylvania]] to reach their first-ever Final Four. Their season ended with a 17–10 loss to [[Cornell Big Red men's lacrosse|Cornell]].<ref>Cohen, Michael. [https://foxsportsradionewjersey.com/2022/05/29/rutgers-lacrosse-falls-in-final-four-to-cornell/ "Rutgers Lacrosse Falls in Final Four to Cornell"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726020915/https://foxsportsradionewjersey.com/2022/05/29/rutgers-lacrosse-falls-in-final-four-to-cornell/ |date=July 26, 2022 }}, Fox Sports New Jersey, May 29, 2022. Accessed July 25, 2022. "An incredible season for Rutgers men’s lacrosse came to an end at the Final Four. The No. 6 seed Scarlet Knights ended their season at 15-4 following a loss to No. 7 seed Cornell in the program’s first-ever appearance in the national semifinals."</ref> In 2025, the women's rowing eight won the [[Island Challenge Cup]] at the [[Henley Royal Regatta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.row2k.com/Henley/features/2025/2310/henley-royal-2025-never-let-the-boat-get-heavy/ |title=Henley Royal 2025: 'Never Let the Boat Get Heavy' |website=row2k |date=8 July 2025 |access-date=8 July 2025}}</ref>

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of Rutgers University people}}

===Alumni===
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[[File:Portrait of Milton Friedman.jpg|thumb|left| [[Milton Friedman]] received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from Rutgers-New Brunswick in 1932.]]
[[File:Gandolfinigfdl.PNG|thumb|[[James Gandolfini]], star of HBO's ''[[The Sopranos]]'' received his B.A. from Rutgers-New Brunswick in 1983.]]
[[File:Elizabeth Warren 2016.jpg|thumb|right|Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] received her [[Juris Doctor|JD]] from [[Rutgers Law School]] in 1976.]]
[[File:Ruth Bader Ginsburg official SCOTUS portrait crop.jpg|thumb|left| U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] served as a law professor at [[Rutgers Law School]] from 1963-1972.]]

At Queen's College's first commencement in 1774, one graduate, [[Matthew Leydt]], received his baccalaureate degree in a brief ceremony.<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue">Raven, John Howard (compiler). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=nK1BAAAAIAAJ Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College (originally Queen's College) in New Brunswick, N.J., 1766–1916] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503184148/https://books.google.com/books?id=nK1BAAAAIAAJ |date=May 3, 2016 }}''. (Trenton, New Jersey: State Gazette Publishing Company, 1916).</ref>{{rp|p.66}}

Rutgers alumni have been influential in many fields. Singer, athlete, attorney, and [[Civil Rights Movement]] activist [[Paul Robeson]] graduated in 1919 and is the namesake of the Paul Robeson Cultural Center on the Busch Campus, the Paul Robeson Library on the Camden Campus, and the Campus Center on the Newark Campus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prcc.rutgers.edu/biography/|title=Biography of Paul Robeson. Paul Robeson Cultural Center, prcc.rutgers.edu/biography|language=en-US|access-date=August 31, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915070910/http://prcc.rutgers.edu/biography/|archive-date=September 15, 2016}}</ref> Among the first students enrolled at Rutgers (when it was ''Queen's College''), [[Simeon De Witt]] (A.B. 1776) became the Surveyor-General for the Continental Army (1776–1783) during the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]]<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.67}} and classmate [[James Schureman]] (A.B. 1775), served in the [[Continental Congress]] and as a United States senator.<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.66}} Two alumni have been awarded Nobel prizes — [[Milton Friedman]] (A.B. 1932) in economics, and [[Selman A. Waksman]] (B.Sc. 1915, M.Sc.1916) in Medicine.<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.300,422}} Poet [[Robert Pinsky]] (B.A. 1962) was appointed the nation's [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|poet laureate]]<ref>[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-pinsky Robert Pinsky], [[Poetry Foundation]]. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Robert Pinsky is one of America’s foremost poet-critics. He earned his BA from Rutgers University in 1962 and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 1966, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing."</ref> and novelist [[Junot Díaz]] (B.A. 1992) awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 2008.<ref>[https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2012/junot-daz Junot Díaz], [[MacArthur Foundation]], October 2, 2012. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Junot Díaz received a B.A. (1992) from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. (1995) from Cornell University."</ref>

Seven alumni have served as [[List of Governors of New Jersey|New Jersey governor]];{{efn|These seven include [[Charles C. Stratton]] (A.B. 1814), [[William A. Newell]] (A.B. 1836; A.M. 1839), [[George C. Ludlow]] (A.B. 1850, A.M. 1850), [[Foster M. Voorhees]] (A.B. 1876, A.M. 1879), [[A. Harry Moore]] (J.D. 1922), [[Richard J. Hughes|Richard Hughes]] (J.D. 1931), and [[James J. Florio]] (J.D. 1967).<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|pp.73,110,164,169}}}} two as [[List of Rutgers University presidents|president of Rutgers]];{{efn|These two are [[William Henry Steele Demarest]] (A.B. 1883),<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" /> who served as president 1906–24;{{rp|pp.32,189}} and Philip Milledoler Brett (A.B. 1892),<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.210}} who served as acting president 1930–31. See [[List of Rutgers University presidents]].}} [[Garret A. Hobart]] (A.B. 1863) as [[Vice President of the United States]];<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.137}} [[Louis Freeh]] (B.A. 1971, J.D. 1974) as director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]];<ref>[https://www.fbi.gov/history/directors/louis-j-freeh Louis J. Freeh, September 1, 1993 - June 25, 2001], [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]. Accessed January 1, 2025. "He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers College in 1971. Director Freeh received a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School in 1974 and an LL.M. degree in criminal law from New York University Law School in 1984."</ref> [[Frederick T. Frelinghuysen]] (A.B. 1836) served a U.S. Senator and as [[U.S. Secretary of State]].<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.88}}<ref>[https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/F000369 Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed January 1, 2025. "graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1836"</ref> Alumnus [[Joseph P. Bradley]] (A.B. 1836) served for two decades as an associate justice of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]<ref name="RavenRC1916AlumniCatalogue" />{{rp|p.87}} and cast the tie-breaking vote on the bipartisan commission that decided the contested [[1876 U.S. presidential election|American presidential election in 1876]]. Diplomat [[Maria Fernanda Espinosa]] served as [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]].<ref>[https://thedialogue.org/expert/maria-fernanda-espinosa/ María Fernanda Espinosa], [[Inter-American Dialogue]]. Accessed January 1, 2025. "She also studied at Rutgers University in the Environmental Geography doctorate program."</ref> Senators [[Elizabeth Warren]] (JD 1976) and [[Bob Menendez]] (JD 1979) both attended [[Rutgers Law School]].<ref>[https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/two-alumni-rutgers-school-law-newark-us-senate "Two alumni from Rutgers School of Law – Newark in the U.S. Senate"], Rutgers-Mewarl, November 5, 2012. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Robert Menendez, a member of the United States Senate from New Jersey since 2006, grew up in Union City, N.J. A graduate of the Rutgers School of Law-Newark in 1979, Menendez was elected as the first Latino U.S. Congressman from New Jersey in 1993. Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren, named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and by the National Law Journal as one of the 50 most influential women attorneys in America, graduated from the School of Law-Newark in 1976, and returned in 2011 to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rutgers University."</ref> Some alumni became [[Activism|activists]] such as [[Jack Babuscio]] (MHist.).<ref>Burton, Peter (Feb 1990). "Jack Babuscio: 'an enduring contribution'". ''Gay Times''. No. 137. p. 7.</ref>

In business, alumni include: [[Bernard Marcus]] (B.S. 1951), founder of hardware retail company [[Home Depot]]; [[Bill Rasmussen]] (MBA 1960), founder of [[ESPN]]; [[Rana Kapoor]] (founder of [[Yes Bank]]); [[Dev Ittycheria]] (B.S 1990) CEO of [[MongoDB Inc.]]; [[Greg Brown (businessman)|Greg Brown]], CEO of [[Motorola Solutions]]; and [[Duncan MacMillan (Bloomberg)|Duncan MacMillan]] (B.S. 1966), co-founder of financial data and media company [[Bloomberg L.P.]] In science and technology, alumni include: [[Peter C. Schultz]] (B.S. 1967), co-inventor of [[fiber optics]]; molecular geneticist [[Angela Christiano]] (Ph.D. 1991); geneticist [[Stanley N. Cohen]] (B.Sc. 1956) who pioneered in the field of [[gene splicing]]; physician [[Howard Krein]]; and [[Louis Gluck]] (B.S. 1948) the "father of [[neonatology]]".<ref>Fountain, Henry. [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/15/us/louis-gluck-73-pediatrician-who-advanced-neonatal-care.html "Louis Gluck, 73, Pediatrician Who Advanced Neonatal Care"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 15, 1997. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Dr. Gluck was born in Newark and graduated from Rutgers University in 1948."</ref>

Alumni prominent in entertainment include actor [[James Gandolfini]] (B.A. 1983) (''[[The Sopranos]]''); chef [[Mario Batali]] (B.A. 1982); [[David Stern]] (B.A. 1963), former commissioner of the [[National Basketball Association]]; [[Henry Selick]], film director (Disney's ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''); actor [[Michael Sorvino]];  [[Holly Black]]; actor [[Sebastian Stan]] (''[[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]]''); cartoon character [[Mr Magoo]]; actress [[Jessica Darrow]] (''[[Encanto]]''); voice actor [[John DiMaggio]] (''[[Futurama]]'', ''[[Adventure Time]]''); guitarist [[Frank Iero]] ([[My Chemical Romance]]), actor [[Roy Scheider]] ([[Jaws (film)|''Jaws'']]); [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] streamer [[Hasan Piker]]; and actress [[Calista Flockhart]] (''[[Ally McBeal]]'').

===Faculty===
[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]] served as a professor at [[Rutgers Law School]] for 9 years from 1963-1972 and later went on to serve as an associate [[Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]]. During his 20-year tenure at Rutgers, [[David Levering Lewis]], a former history professor, was twice awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography]] (1994 and 2001) for both volumes of his [[biography]] of [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] (1868–1963) and was also the winner of the [[Bancroft Prize]] and the [[Francis Parkman Prize]]. Poet [[Gregory Pardlo]] won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, he is both an alumnus and faculty member at the Camden campus. [[Michael R. Douglas]], a prominent [[String theory|string theorist]] and the director of the New High Energy Theory Center and winner of the [[Sackler Prize]] in theoretical physics in 2000. [[Family Research Council]] director Jennifer Bauwens taught in the [[Rutgers School of Social Work]]. [[Avery Brooks]], a Rutgers graduate, taught at [[Mason Gross School of the Arts]]. Former professor [[Ruth Chang]] is an expert in decision-making and a fellow at Oxford. Literature scholar [[Ankhi Mukherjee]] now at [[University of Oxford]] won the [[Rose Mary Crawshay prize]]. Former English professor at Rutgers-Newark [[Jayne Anne Phillips]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in 2024. [[Jerry Fodor]], [[Zenon Pylyshyn]], [[Stephen Stich]] and [[Frances Egan]] were awarded the [[Jean Nicod Prize]] in [[philosophy]] and [[cognitive science]]. [[Endre Szemerédi]] was awarded the [[Abel Prize]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=2012: Endre Szemerédi |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2012  |access-date=21 July 2022 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters}}</ref> [[Mario Szegedy]] was awarded the [[Gödel Prize]] twice, in 2001 and 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sigact.org/Prizes/Godel/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716200535/http://www.sigact.org/prizes/godel/|url-status=dead|title=ACM SIGACT - Gödel Prize|archivedate=July 16, 2010|website=sigact.org}}</ref>

Many other members of the faculty have received the highest awards in their fields, including Guggenheim and MacArthur "Genius Award" fellowships, Pulitzer Prize winners, National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology recipients, a National Endowment for the Arts "Jazz Master," amongst others.<ref name="Facts&Figures" /> {{as of|2013}}, 37 science, engineering, and medical faculty are members of the four "National Academies"—the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council.<ref name="Facts&Figures" /><ref>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. [http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/members-national-academies "Rutgers Outstanding Thinkers: Members of the National Academies"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101003729/http://www.rutgers.edu/about-rutgers/members-national-academies |date=November 1, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 29, 2013.</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|New Jersey|Education}}
* [[2011 Rutgers tuition protests]]
* [[List of Rutgers University people]]
* [[List of Rutgers University presidents]]

==References==

===Notes===

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===Citations===

{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==

* H.M. Berman, J. Westbrook, Z. Feng, G. Gilliland, T.N. Bhat, H. Weissig, I.N. Shindyalov, P.E. Bourne: The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Research, '''28''', pp.&nbsp;235–242 (2000).
* Demarest, William Henry Steele. ''History of Rutgers College: 1776–1924.'' (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers College, 1924).
* ''History of Rutgers College: or an account of the union of Rutgers College, and the Theological Seminary of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church. Prepared and published at the request of several trustees of the College, by a trustee.'' (New York: Anderson & Smith, 1833).
* Lukac, George J. (ed.), ''Aloud to Alma Mater.'' (New Brunswick, New Jersey: [[Rutgers University Press]], 1966), 70–73.
* McCormick, Richard P. ''Rutgers: a Bicentennial History''. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966). {{ISBN|0-8135-0521-6}}.
* Schmidt, George P. ''Princeton, and Rutgers: The Two Colonial Colleges of New Jersey''. (Princeton, New Jersey: Van Nostrand, 1964).

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