Rutgers prepares tomorrow’s health care providers and conducts life-changing research at New Jersey’s top schools for medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and health professions. And Rutgers Health, with partner RWJBarnabas Health, is New Jersey’s leading academic health system, bringing practitioners and innovators together to make the world well.
Where Rutgers' education, research, and clinical health care come together.
NJ’s Top-Ranked Programs for Health Care Students Are at Rutgers
New Jersey Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School graduates serve as resident physicians at these and other top hospitals, treating patients as they continue specialized medical training:
U.S. News & World Report ranks the School of Nursing’s M.S.N. and D.N.P. programs in the nation’s top 20 and #1 in New Jersey. Its B.S.N. program ranks in the nation’s top 10 percent. The school is a National League for Nursing Center of Educational Excellence and an American Association of Men in Nursing Best School. The school’s initiatives in health care and research range from the statewide Child Health Program to a midwifery training and research and development program in rural Nigeria.
Rutgers Health is Rutgers’ clinical enterprise, offering exceptional patient care in coordination with RWJBarnabas Health, the state’s largest integrated health care delivery system. With the latest research and innovations informing patient care, new treatments, and the training of practitioners, Rutgers Health is New Jersey’s leading academic health care provider.
The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is the state’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. Together with RWJBarnabas Health—providing premier cancer research and world-class patient care—the institute will have a new home: the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, the state’s first freestanding cancer hospital.
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine is the state’s largest provider of oral health care, with 136,000+ annual patient visits. The school provides several specialized programs for hundreds of patients with orofacial pain and HIV/AIDS as well as targeted programs for various patient groups, such as Holocaust survivors and veterans.
The World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence—New Jersey’s only WTC health center—provides care at no cost for patients with health conditions related to the 9/11 terror attacks.
Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care’s Vets4Warriors Program offers 24/7 confidential peer support to veterans, service members, family members, and caregivers.
Headquartered at Rutgers, the statewide Institute for Translational Medicine and Science moves research discoveries into clinical practice and is the gateway to clinical trials at Rutgers, offering patients access to hundreds of new treatments.
