39 Facts About Rutgers College

Rutgers College University, officially Rutgers College, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

For most of its existence, Rutgers was a private liberal arts college but it has evolved into a coeducational public research university after being designated The State University of New Jersey by the New Jersey Legislature via laws enacted in 1945 and 1956.

Rutgers College is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant university, as well as the largest university in the state.

The Grammar School, today the private Rutgers Preparatory School, was a part of the college community until 1959.

Original purpose of Queen's Rutgers College was to "educate the youth in language, liberal, the divinity, and useful arts and sciences" and for the training of future ministers for the Dutch Reformed Church.

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Rutgers College became the land-grant college of New Jersey in 1864 under the Morrill Act of 1862, resulting in the establishment of the Rutgers Scientific School, featuring departments of agriculture, engineering, and chemistry.

Rutgers College continued as a liberal arts college within the university.

Later, University College was founded to serve part-time, commuting students and Livingston College was created by the Rutgers Trustees, ensuring that the interests of ethnically diverse New Jersey students were met.

Rutgers College was designated the state university of New Jersey by acts of the New Jersey Legislature in 1945 and 1956.

Rutgers College agreed to rebuild the seminary in exchange for the land it gave up.

Rutgers College invited multiple notable alumni from around the world to the celebration.

Governance at Rutgers College University rests with a board of trustees consisting of 41 members, and a board of governors consisting of 15 voting members: 8 appointed by the Governor of New Jersey and 7 chosen by and from among the board of trustees.

The Busch Campus is noted as the home of Rutgers College' highly ranked Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, as well as the golf course and football stadium.

Rutgers College Biomedical and Health Sciences is a division of the university that serves as an umbrella organization for schools, centers, and institutes from Rutgers College University and the old University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Online degree programs at Rutgers College must meet the same academic expectations, in terms of both teaching and learning outcomes, as traditional on-campus programs.

The collaborative effort provides access to Rutgers College faculty teaching Rutgers College courses, at a convenient location, but it is one of the few programs that cater exclusively to the non-traditional student population.

Rutgers College oversees several museums and collections that are open to the public.

Rutgers College global offers more than 180 study and service-learning programs to more than 50 countries for all majors.

Rutgers College is home to the Rutgers College University Center for Cognitive Science, known as RUCCS.

Rutgers College developed water-soluble sustained release polymers, tetraploids, robotic hands, artificial bovine insemination, and the ceramic tiles for the heat shield on the Space Shuttle.

Rutgers College is home to the RCSB Protein Data bank, 'an information portal to Biological Macromolecular Structures' cohosted with the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Rutgers College–Camden is home to the nation's PhD granting Department of Childhood Studies.

Rutgers College is home to several National Science Foundation IGERT fellowships that support interdisciplinary scientific research at the graduate-level.

Rutgers College maintains the Office of Research Alliances that focuses on working with companies to increase engagement with the university's faculty members, staff and extensive resources on the four campuses.

Many Rutgers College students opt to rent apartments or houses off-campus within the city of New Brunswick.

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Rutgers College University has a student government which controls funding to student groups.

Rutgers College University is home to chapters of many Greek organizations, and a significant percentage of the undergraduate student body is active in Greek life.

The New Brunswick campus of Rutgers College University has a chapter of the only active co-ed pre-medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon, as of 2008.

Rutgers College has five vocal ensembles: Voorhees Choir, Kirkpatrick Choir, Glee Club, University Choir, and the Rutgers College Concert Choir .

Rutgers College has held this tradition since 1999 and to date has raised in excess of $1.

Rutgers College Day is a campus and community celebration held annually on the Camden, New Brunswick, and Newark campuses.

The Rutgers College student publication Targum proposed that scarlet be adopted in May 1869, claiming that it was a striking color and because scarlet ribbon was easily obtained.

At the time, the student humour magazine at Rutgers College was called Chanticleer, and one of its early arts editors, Ozzie Nelson was quarterback of the Rutgers College team from 1924 to 1926.

Rutgers College won the game, with a score of 6 runs to Princeton's 4.

In 1870, Rutgers College held its first intercollegiate competition, against the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, the then top-ranked amateur crew of the time.

Since the start in 1864, Rutgers College has built a strong crew program consisting of heavyweight and lightweight men.

Rutgers College currently fields 27 intercollegiate sports programs and is a Division I school as sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

The 2006 football season saw Rutgers being ranked within the Top 25 teams in major college football polls.

Rutgers College surpassed Penn State as the Big Ten's easternmost school.