Rutgers–New Brunswick is the only public university in New Jersey that is a member of the Association of American Universities, whose 71 members are North America's leading research universities.
Rutgers–New Brunswick is where Rutgers was born in 1766 and today is a top 100 world university, a top 20 public national university, and the number one public university in New Jersey. Here you will find boundless academic choices; world-class research; outstanding students and faculty; five campuses, from bucolic to bustling city; and Big Ten, big-time Scarlet Knights sports.
From research that helps keep the nation safe to scholarship that amplifies historic truths in popular entertainment, Rutgers faculty bring the academic world into the real world.
“Historian Erica Dunbar, who played such an integral role in the production she was eventually promoted to co-executive producer, said you simply can’t do a show about New York without Black people.”—Washington Post on Erica Dunbar, who ensures HBO's The Gilded Age brings to life authentic characters of color. Dunbar, the Charles and Mary Beard Distinguished Professor of History, also was a consultant and on-screen contributor to Ken Burns’ 2022 PBS documentary Benjamin Franklin.
One of the most ambitious editing undertakings by an American university, a team of editors/scholars has been turning an incomparable trove of Edison documents into a premier educational resource since 1978.
With such partners as MetLife Stadium and Rutgers Office of Emergency Management, CCICADA, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security University Center of Excellence, uses big data to protect soft targets and crowded places.
Key to medical and biological discovery, the Protein Data Bank is the world’s only open-access, 3D digital archive for proteins, DNA, and RNA—life’s basic molecules. PDB structures aided more than 70 percent of 54 anticancer drugs earning recent FDA approval.
“Two centuries after the death of Ludwig van Beethoven, musicians and computer scientists used artificial intelligence to complete his 10th symphony… We [CNN] talked to the computer scientist in charge of the process, Professor Ahmed Elgammal of Rutgers University, to find out how they trained the computer to write music as Beethoven might have.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN, GPS: The Next Big Idea
As the state’s land-grant university, Rutgers–New Brunswick provides New Jersey’s 21 counties with expertise on everything from animal science and agriculture to mosquito control and flood mitigation. Our land-grant research solutions work for New Jersey and the nation and in the far corners of the globe.
Located on a pristine East Coast estuary, the Rutgers University Marine Field Station has worked for 50 years to preserve the coastal ecosystem, sustain New Jersey's vulnerable sea life, and understand the far-reaching impact of climate change.
The nation’s go-to resource for insight on women in the political sphere, the center appears regularly in the national media. Led by Debbie Walsh, CAWP is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Rutgers–New Brunswick’s Douglass Residential College leads the Big Ten Academic Alliance Advancing Women in STEM, a collaboration of Big Ten schools focused on broadening the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math. The women’s residential college at Rutgers, Douglass has a historic strength in expanding the representation of women in STEM fields.
The Zimmerli Art Museum is one of the largest and most distinguished university-based museums in the country. It collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits world-class works of art to provide the university community and diverse regional, national, international audiences with direct experience of the visual arts. Scholarly activities make art accessible through exhibitions, publications, and educational programs.
The Rutgers Geology Museum was established in 1872 by George H. Cook, the pioneering Rutgers professor whose geological survey of New Jersey became the model for the U.S. Geological Survey. The museum’s collections date from 1836 and include a Mastodon skeleton discovered in New Jersey’s Salem County in 1869. Exhibits and special programs are offered year-round.
“Thousands of Rutgers University students will benefit from a new financial aid program slashing out-of-pocket costs of tuition and fees for families with incomes below $100,000.”—Yahoo!Finance on the Scarlet Guarantee program, which reduces tuition and fees for first- and second-year full-time in-state undergraduates on a sliding income scale
African American History • Agricultural Sciences • American Literature after 1865 • Art, Performing Arts, and Design • Arts and Humanities • Business–Supply Chain Logistics • Communication • Cultural History • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • English • Fine Arts–Painting and Drawing • Food Science and Technology • Library and Information Studies • Mathematics • Modern U.S. History • Oceanography • Philosophy • Social Work • Urban Planning • Women’s History
The Rutgers University Dance Marathon—the state’s largest student-run philanthropic event—has raised $10 million since 1999 to meet the nonmedical needs of children and their families affected by cancer, sickle cell, and other diseases.
• 419 make the Academic All-Big Ten List, a Rutgers record high
• 9 top-25 ranked teams: baseball; field hockey; gymnastics; wrestling; rowing; men’s and women’s soccer and lacrosse
• Football earns invitation to Gator Bowl
• Men’s basketball defeats 5 ranked opponents and makes NCAA Tournament
