Rutgers—officially, the State University of New Jersey—is one of the nine colonial colleges built in America before 1776.
The School is centrally located in between New York City and Philadelphia, and consequently well positioned to tap into either city’s substantial economic and cultural opportunities. The flagship Rutgers campus in New Brunswick benefits from a working relationship with its sister campuses in Camden and Newark, as well as a partnership with New Jersey’s premier medical school, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, also in Newark.
Rutgers has long been considered one of the most diverse colleges in the U.S., with a 40,000-plus member student body drawing from a wide range of economic, social, and national backgrounds. The university is blessed with a first-class faculty that includes an Abel Prize winner, MacArthur Fellows, Guggenheim Fellows, Pulitzer Prize winners, and 37 members of various national academies.
Rutgers is a member of the Association of American Universities and the international Committee on Institutional Cooperation. Each year it spends $430 on research in the life sciences alone, and it generates $304 million in contracts and externally sponsored research grants, making the university an internationally recognized research leader.
