Rutgers University
Rutgers University (officially, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), an institution of higher education in New Jersey. Its administrative center and main campus are in New Brunswick; other campuses are in Camden and Newark. There are nine undergraduate colleges (four in New Brunswick, three in Camden, and two in Newark), a graduate school, three law schools, and graduate-level schools of business administration, criminal justice, applied and professional psychology, education, fine and performing arts, library science, and social work.
Rutgers was founded principally by clergymen of the Dutch Reformed Church as Queen's College, and was the eighth college in the American colonies. It received its charter in 1766 and was opened in 1771. Old Queens (1809) is the oldest building. In 1825 the college was named for Henry Rutgers, a philanthropist and church leader. In 1864 he organized the Rutgers Scientific School, which was to be administered by Rutgers College and which was designated the land-grant college of New Jersey by the state legislature. In 1917 the Scientific School, which had been divided into the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture, was renamed the State University of New Jersey. In 1945 this designation was extended to the entire institution.