Latin: Universitas Rutgersensis Civitatis Novae Caesareae |
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Former names
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Queen's College (1766–1825) Rutgers College (1825–1925) Rutgers University (1925–1945) |
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Motto | Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra |
Motto in English
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Sun of righteousness, shine upon the West also. |
Type |
Public Multiple campus Land-grant Sea-grant Research university |
Established | November 10, 1766 |
Academic affiliation
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Endowment | $1.084 billion (2016) |
Budget | $3.91 billion (2016–17) |
President | Robert Barchi |
Academic staff
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4,314 |
Administrative staff
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6,757 |
Students | 67,556 |
Undergraduates | 48,096 |
Postgraduates | 19,460 |
Location | New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, New Jersey, U.S. |
Campus |
Urban and Suburban 6,088 acres (2,464 ha) |
Colors | Scarlet |
Nickname | Scarlet Knights |
Sporting affiliations
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NCAA Division I, FBS Big Ten |
Website | www |
University rankings | |
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National | |
ARWU | 48 |
Forbes | 141 |
U.S. News & World Report | 72 |
Washington Monthly | 61 |
Global | |
ARWU | 96 |
QS | 301 |
Times | 123 |
U.S. News & World Report | 60 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (/ˈrʌtɡərz/), commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey.
Rutgers was chartered as Queen's College on November 10, 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The college was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), a New York City landowner, philanthropist and former military officer, whose $5000 bond donation to the school allowed it to reopen after years of financial difficulty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. The college expanded its role in research and instruction in agriculture, engineering, and science when it was named as the state's sole land-grant college in 1864 under the Morrill Act of 1862. It gained university status in 1924 with the introduction of graduate education and further expansion. However, Rutgers evolved into a coeducational public research university after being designated "The State University of New Jersey" by the New Jersey Legislature in laws enacted in 1945 and 1956. It is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities. Rutgers, however, remains something of a public-private hybrid, in particular retaining certain "private rights" against unilateral changes in its governance, name, and structure that the state might otherwise want to impose.