RUTGERS FACTS AT-A-GLANCE
Total Enrollment: 56,868
Undergraduate: 42,327 (74.4 percent)
Graduate and Professional: 14,541 (25.6 percent)
Full time: 46,079 (81 percent)
Part time: 10,789 (19 percent)
Women: 29,202 (51.4 percent)
Men: 27,666 (48.6 percent)
Minority: 24,176 (42.5 percent)
Foreign: 3,268 (5.7 percent)
Total Faculty (excluding teaching assistants and graduate assistants):
Full time and part time, including Post Docs and Fellows: 4,758
Full time and part time, excluding Post Docs and Fellows: 4,383
Student/Faculty Ratio: 15:1
Living Alumni: More than 390,000
RUTGERS’ HISTORY
Rutgers was chartered in 1766 as Queen’s College, making it the eighth oldest institution of higher education in the nation. It became Rutgers College in 1825, honoring Col. Henry Rutgers, a former trustee and Revolutionary War veteran. In 1924, Rutgers College assumed university status. By 1956, legislative acts designated all of Rutgers’ divisions as The State University of New Jersey, making it the youngest state university in the country at that time. Rutgers is the only university in the nation to have been a Colonial college, a land-grant college and a state university. In 1989, Rutgers became a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.
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