Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Rutgers University--New Brunswick is the flagship campus of New Jersey's public research university, founded in 1766 as Queen's College, the eighth colonial college in British North America. It became the state land-grant institution in 1864 and later the State University of New Jersey. The campus is a set of adjoining sites in New Brunswick and Piscataway along the Raritan River, including College Avenue and the Busch science and engineering campus.

Major units include the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering, Rutgers Business School, the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Graduate School of Education, and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Life sciences, pharmacy, engineering, planning, and the arts are the fields that matter most to graduate students. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and university hospitals in New Brunswick support biomedical graduate work.

New Brunswick enrolls about 50,000 students, among the largest single-campus enrollments in the United States, with more than 14,000 graduate and professional students. International students are a substantial share of graduate enrollment and come from more than 100 countries. Faculty number several thousand. Alumni include actor and singer Paul Robeson, economist Milton Friedman, and actor James Gandolfini.

Graduate routes include the PhD, professional master's, PharmD, MD, MFA, and joint degrees across New Brunswick professional schools. Doctoral work is department- and laboratory-based; professional schools add coursework-heavy master's and clinical training. The calendar is two semesters. Assistantships and grant support fund many PhD students. Graduate life is split among College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, and Cook/Douglass campuses, with New York and Philadelphia reachable by train.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Rutgers University–New Brunswick lists 189 graduate programs across 49 subjects: 105 master's programs and 78 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in public health, biology and health & medical sciences. Rutgers University–New Brunswick holds rank 81 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.