College Profile for: Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University), is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States. Rutgers was originally a private university affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church and admitting only male students, but evolved into and is presently a nonsectarian, coeducational public research university that makes no religious demands of its students. Rutgers is one of only two colonial colleges that later became public universities. (The other is the College of William and Mary.) Rutgers was designated The State University of New Jersey by acts of the New Jersey Legislature in 1945 and 1956. The campuses of Rutgers U...
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83 Somerset St
New Brunswick, NJ
08901-1281
732-932-1766 (general)
732-932-7755 (financial aid)
732-932-3770 (admissions)
Web Site:
http://www.rutgers.edu/
