Welcome to Rutgers' online home. Like the university itself, it's your gateway to a world without limits. With more than 50,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick/Piscataway, Rutgers is one of the nation's major state universities. Chartered in 1766, it has a unique history as a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a state university. Its 30 degree-granting units offer majors in over 100 fields and thousands of courses.
New Jersey's state university has a wealth of enlightening and engaging attractions and events for visitors of all ages. Whether it's stargazing or deep-sea exploration, jazz or chamber music, visual arts or gardening, Rutgers is involved, and likely, breaking new ground. It's a place to delve into history as well as catch a glimpse of the future, and the things to see and do here are as diverse as our student body and the vibrant cultural area we call home. Convenient to New York City, Philadelphia, and the Jersey shore, our campuses are probably right along your way. So come visit Rutgers—you just might learn something!