Rutgers University
Rutgers University (/ˈrʌtɡərz/ RUT-gərz), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College,[11] and was affiliated with the 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 only nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.[12][13]
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In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College[14] in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty.[15] For most of its existence, Rutgers was a private liberal arts college. It has evolved into a coeducational public university research university since being designated the State University of New Jersey by the state's legislature in 1945 and 1956.[16]
Rutgers has several distinct campuses. Since colonial times, its historic core has been situated along College Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers University–New Brunswick also includes the landscaped campus of Douglass College, a women's college that was traditionally paired with Rutgers, the College Farm, and additional grounds in adjacent Piscataway. Apart from the New Brunswick core, campuses at Rutgers University–Newark; Rutgers University–Camden; and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences complete the university's main footprint. The university has additional facilities throughout the state, including oceanographic research facilities at the Jersey Shore.[17]
Rutgers is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university, as well as the largest university in the state.[18] Instruction is offered by 9,000 faculty members in 175 academic departments to over 45,000 undergraduate students and more than 20,000 graduate and professional students.[6] The university is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education[19] and is a member of the Association of American Universities[20] and the Universities Research Association.[21]
Former names
Queen's College
(1766–1825)
Rutgers College
(1825–1924)
Rutgers University
(1924–1945)
Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra (Latin)
"Sun of righteousness, shine also upon the West."[2]
Private college (1766–1945)
Public land-grant research university
November 10, 1766
Nonsectarian - historically Dutch Reformed
$1.98 billion (2021)[3]