Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

▪ university system, New Jersey, United States
      coeducational state institution of higher learning in New Jersey, U.S. Rutgers was founded as private Queens College by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1766. The college struggled to survive in the years after the American Revolution and was closed several times in the early 1800s. It was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 (for the philanthropist Colonel Henry Rutgers) and became, after the Morrill Act of 1862, New Jersey's land-grant college in 1864, assuming university status in 1924. In 1945 the state legislature extended the name State University of New Jersey to all colleges and divisions of the institution.

      Rutgers has a large campus complex at New Brunswick and smaller campuses at Newark and Camden. At the New Brunswick campus are the original Rutgers College, which was formerly a men's college but became coeducational in 1972; Douglass College (1918), established as a liberal arts college for women; Cook College (1921), which offers programs in the agricultural and environmental sciences; and Livingston College (1969), a coeducational liberal arts college. Also at New Brunswick are a graduate school for the liberal arts, colleges of engineering and pharmacy, and schools or graduate schools of education, business, and the arts. The Newark and Camden campuses each have a college of arts and sciences, a graduate school, and certain other schools. Total enrollment is approximately 48,000.

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