Discover What's Great at Rutgers–Newark
An Anchor Institution in New Jersey’s Largest City
Rutgers–Newark is a leading urban research university, internationally and nationally recognized for its scholarship in action and for its ability to propel economic prosperity and social mobility for each new generation. The university takes pride in being “In Newark, of Newark”—an anchor institution in the heart of New Jersey’s largest city, which is just minutes from midtown Manhattan.
A University of Opportunity
Top programs and a commitment to great futures
From programs that lower or eliminate tuition for many students to an Honors Living-Learning Community that reconsiders the notions of talent and achievement to an on-campus restaurant that addresses food insecurity, Rutgers–Newark is committed to providing access to a first-class college experience that changes lives.
Honors Living-Learning Community
Called "an honors college that honors grit" by The New York Times, the HLLC redefines what an honors college can be. Working together as a community of scholars, HLLC students strive to achieve academic excellence, help their peers flourish, and work to better society and advance the common good.
Leading Faculty Recognized for Excellence
Pulitzer Prize in Criticism: Salamishah Tillet
Honored for her “learned and stylish writing about Black stories in art and popular culture—work that successfully bridges academic and nonacademic discourse,” Salamishah Tillet is a New York Times contributing critic at large; Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies and Creative Writing; and executive director of Express Newark, the Rutgers–Newark supported academic and community center for socially engaged art and design.
2022 National Book Award for Poetry: John Keene
Poems that “emanate a radiant kindness.” —The Nation, reviewing poet, MacArthur fellow, and Distinguished Professor John Keene’s Punks, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry and 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
Anthropology in Media Award: Alexander Hinton
Anthropologist Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers–Newark, won the American Anthropological Association’s 2022 Anthropology in Media Award, given to individuals who have raised public awareness of the field at the local, national, and international levels. Hinton is a world expert on “the killing fields” of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, which carried out one of the worst genocides in human history.
National Expert on Race, Place, and Inequality: David Troutt
A Distinguished Professor of Law and founding director of the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME), David Troutt's housing scarcity and affordability index is behind Newark’s Equitable Growth Advisory Commission. CLiME is a non-partisan research resource for students and the public interested in the growing challenges of municipalities and families trying to sustain middle-class outcomes amid growing fiscal constraints and rapid demographic change. The center's efforts promote more equitable approaches to public law and policy.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught at Rutgers Law School in Newark from 1963 to 1972, one of only two women law professors at Rutgers and one of a handful in the nation. A request from her Rutgers students to lead a seminar on women and the law launched Ginsburg’s journey to becoming a pioneer in women’s legal rights. In 1993, Justice Ginsburg became the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she served until her death in 2020. Today at Rutgers–Newark, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall is named in her honor. In 2023, Rutgers Law School received $6.5 million from the Stephanie and Harold Krieger Charitable Trust, one of the largest gifts in its history, to help establish the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Rights and Gender Justice Clinic.
200,000 recordings are housed in the Institute of Jazz Studies, which the New York Times calls the “country’s most extensive jazz archive and library.”
In Newark, of Newark
From climate change to Alzheimer's disease to economic opportunity, working on society’s problems takes a commitment to research and creativity. As an anchor institution, Rutgers–Newark tackles local issues that resonate globally through innovative grants, community partnerships, and projects.
Another Exciting Year for the Scarlet Raiders
The Scarlet Raiders had a great 2022–2023 season and going into 2023–2024 find women's soccer, women's volleyball, and men's soccer all tabbed in the top 10 in NJAC preseason polling.