Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey has its main campus at New Brunswick and nearby Piscataway, New Jersey. It also has undergraduate colleges and graduate and professional schools in Newark and Camden, and the school offers extension courses throughout the state.
Rutgers was founded in 1766 as Queen’s College. In 1825, the school was renamed Rutgers College. The first intercollegiate football game was played between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869. Rutgers became a university in 1924 and was designated as the state university of New Jersey by legislation in 1945 and 1956. The university’s athletic teams are called the Scarlet Knights.
For some time, the main campus at Rutgers was divided into several individual colleges (in addition to Rutgers College), each with independent admissions policies and academic requirements. Douglass College, founded in 1918 as the New Jersey College for Women, admitted women students. University College, founded in 1934, served adult and part-time students. In 1969, Livingston College was founded as a coeducational and liberal arts college. In 2007, Douglass College was renamed Douglass Residential College. Douglass continued its mission of educating undergraduate women at Rutgers. However, admissions, academic requirements, and degrees for all the individual colleges were centralized under Rutgers University.
The university’s website at https://www.rutgers.edu/ offers additional information.
