Rutgers University

: For other meanings of Rutgers, see Rutgers (disambiguation)

About Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national research university and is unique as the only university in the nation that is a colonial chartered college (1766), a land-grant institution (1864), and a state university (1945/1956). There are seventeen degree granting divisions at Rutgers.

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Colonial chartered college - 1766 - Land-grant institution - 1864 - State university - 1945 - 1956

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Rutgers College became the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864, resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers Scientific School, featuring departments of agriculture, engineering, and chemistry. Further expansion in the sciences came with the founding of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in 1880 and the division of the Rutgers Scientific School into the College of Engineering (now the School of Engineering) in 1914 and the College of Agriculture (now Cook College) in 1921. The precursors to several other Rutgers divisions were also established during this period: the College of Pharmacy (now the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy) in 1892, the New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College) in 1918, and the School of Education in 1924.

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1864 - Agriculture - Engineering - Chemistry - 1880 - 1914 - Cook College - 1921 - 1892 - Douglass College - 1918 - 1924

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The first Summer Session began in 1913 with one six-week session. That summer program offered 47 courses and had an enrollment of 314 students. Currently, Summer Session offers over 1,000 courses to more than 15,000 students on the Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses, off-campus, and abroad.

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1913 - Camden - Newark - New Brunswick - Piscataway

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Rutgers was sometimes considered a part of the Ivy League along with the current 8 members and Army and Navy. However, the University dropped out prior to formal organization of that league. Rutgers maintains rivalries with Princeton and Columbia in sports other than football.

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Ivy League - Princeton - Columbia

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Rutgers was designated the State University of New Jersey by legislatives acts in 1945 and 1956. Since the 1950s, Rutgers has continued to expand, especially in the area of graduate education. The Graduate School—New Brunswick, and professional schools have been established in such areas as business, management, public policy, social work, applied and professional psychology, the fine arts, and communication, information and library studies. (A number of these schools offer undergraduate programs as well.) Also at the undergraduate level, Livingston College was founded in 1969, emphasizing the urban environment.

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1945 - 1956 - 1950 - Business - Management - Public policy - Social work - Psychology - Fine arts - Communication - Information - Library studies - 1969

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On September 10, 1970, after several years of debate and planning, the Board of Governors voted to admit women into the previously all-male Rutgers College. The transformation from single-sex to coeducational institutions became a trend in many colleges across the United States that had—up to the late 1960's and early 1970's—remained all-male. Today, Douglass College (originally the New Jersey College for Women) remains all-female, while the rest of the institution is coeducational.

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September 10 - 1970 - Rutgers College - Coeducational - 1960

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (since 1921). In 1989, Rutgers University became a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization comprised of the 62 leading research universities in North America.

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Commission on Higher Education - Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools - 1921 - 1989 - Association of American Universities - North America

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Richard Levis McCormick (b. 1947) is the current president of Rutgers University.

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