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Great Things to Know About Rutgers
Explore the Great Things to Know about Rutgers and discover what makes Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, a distinctive and highly respected institution in the Garden State, the nation, and across the globe.
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Students
Faculty
Health Care
Research
Alumni & Donors
One of America’s
Great
Universities
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
, is a top national research university and New Jersey’s preeminent public institution of higher education. An academic, health, and research powerhouse, Rutgers is a university of academic excellence and opportunity and a change agent for the betterment of society.
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Great for 259 Years and Counting
#1
University in N.J. for Dollars Devoted to R&D (
National Science Foundation
)
8th Oldest
University in the Nation
Top 100
National Universities: All Campuses (
U.S. News & World Report
)
Top 50
Employer in N.J. (
Forbes
)
71,000+
Enrolled Students (Largest in N.J.)
#1 in R&D
Rutgers devoted more than $871 million to research and development in FY 2023,
expending more in R&D than all other New Jersey universities and colleges combined
, according to the latest National Science Foundation data.
Top 50 Public Universities
Rutgers–New Brunswick, Rutgers–Newark, and Rutgers–Camden all rank among
U.S. News & World Report’
s
Top 50 public national universities
and
Top 100 national universities
. Rutgers is one of the only universities in the nation with each campus ranked in the Top 100.
Top 100 in the World
•
Center for World University Rankings
: Global 2000
•
Reuters
: World’s Most Innovative Universities
•
National Academy of Inventors
: Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Patents
•
QS World University Rankings
: Sustainability
Outstanding Academics
#1
in the Nation for Women’s History (
U.S. News & World Report
)
#2
in the Nation for Food Science and Technology (
U.S. News & World Report
)
#3
in the World for Philosophy (
QS World University Rankings
)
40+
Top 25 Programs
Latest Rutgers Rankings
Top Ranked Graduate Programs
Low or No Tuition Programs
Bridging the Gap
,
RU-N to the Top
, and
Scarlet Guarantee
are income-based financial aid programs that help cover in-state tuition and fees and reduce student debt.
Scarlet Promise Initiative
Need-based financial aid and emergency assistance are supported by
$85 million+ in donations
given to the university since 2022.
Rutgers Future Scholars
A national model for success
, this precollege program puts academically promising, low-income, first-gen students on a path to earning a college degree, with high school graduation rates as high as 99% and college enrollment rates as high as 88%.
Students on the Path to Success
Prachi Shashidhar
Honors College Finance Major
World-Class Education
Rutgers makes access to a world-class education a priority for our outstanding students. They are academically talented, driven, and experienced, which is why hundreds of employers work with Rutgers to recruit the bright new graduates who will advance their widely varied enterprises and organizations. Rutgers students are recognized for excellence as top national scholars, and they excel in every field imaginable.
A Rutgers Degree Pays Off
•
Rutgers job fairs
attract hundreds of employers
•
Top 5%
in the nation for ROI 20 years post-graduation
•
$70,000
year-one median starting salary
•
9 in 10
gain internship/professional experience
• Six months out, nearly
90% of graduates are employed
, furthering their education, serving in the military, or in a service program
Record Applications
Rutgers received a
record-setting 244,000 applications
for admission in academic year 2024–2025, affirming the university's prestige and popularity.
Great Futures Start at Rutgers
#5
in the World Job Placement for Business Schools (
LinkedIn
)
#16
Public University in Nation Graduate Employability (
Times Higher Education
)
Top 5%
in the Nation for ROI 20 Years Post-graduation (
Payscale
)
14-Time
Top Producer of Fulbright Students
Top Students, Top Prizes
Andrew Krapivin
Churchill Scholar
Andrew Krapivin, a 2023 Goldwater Scholar, was named a Churchill Scholar in 2024, the first Rutgers–New Brunswick student in a decade to earn the award funding graduate education at the University of Cambridge in England where he is studying computer science.
Andrea Olavarrieta
U.S. Department of State Fellowship
Andrea Olavarrieta was one of 10 undergraduates nationwide awarded a 2024 U.S. State Department Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship, supporting her remaining years of baccalaureate study and paving the way for appointment as a Foreign Service diplomatic technology officer.
Julianne Chan
Udall Scholar
Environmental engineering major Julianne Chan was named both a 2024 Udall Scholar and Goldwater Scholar and a 2023 NOAA Hollings Scholar for her outstanding achievements as an undergraduate, including collaborating with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection on a project analyzing the prevalence of microplastics in wastewater.
Paul Boyd
Truman Scholar
Rutgers–Camden’s first Truman Scholar, philosophy major Paul Boyd will receive support for doctoral study leading to a career helping the incarcerated pursue higher education and prepare for life after prison. The award recognizes students who demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to a government or nonprofit sector career, and academic excellence.
19 Years of Goldwater Scholars
Annie Wei, Elisa Bu Sha, Julianne Chan, and Anisha Jackson were named Barry Goldwater Scholars in 2024, extending to 19 years Rutgers’ streak of students earning the nation’s preeminent undergraduate research scholarship.
Building a Culture of Service
Hundreds of students, like Santiago Díaz de León Domínguez, participate in the Rutgers Scarlet Service program, which provides paid public service internships at nonprofit and government organizations to improve democracy and advance the common good.
Rutgers Team Wins International Supply Chain Competition
By triumphing at the 2024 Institute for Supply Management International Student Case Competition, Rutgers Business School M.B.A. students ended the three-year reign of Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Stellar Faculty Drive Discovery
Lindsey McDougle, School of Public Affairs and Administration
2024 Faculty Service Award Recipient
Forging New Paths
Leading scientists, scholars, artists, and practitioners, Rutgers faculty come to New Jersey from across the nation and around the world. This international constellation of superb minds is forging new paths for discovery, creating new knowledge across disciplines, and teaching and mentoring the creative and nimble workforce we need as a nation. The work of our faculty is supported and recognized by the most esteemed academies, agencies, associations, and foundations. The scholarly influence of our faculty extends well beyond spaces where their everyday endeavors yield brilliant results.
Guggenheim Fellows
Three Rutgers–New Brunswick professors have earned a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious honor recognizing their vital work in addressing pressing challenges facing humanity. The Rutgers candidates were among 188 fellows selected from a pool of 3,000 across 52 disciplines.
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Teachers, Scholars, Researchers
25,000+
Classes Taught Annually
44,300+
Scholarly Publications by Faculty, 2020–2024
42
Current Recipients of NSF CAREER Awards
80+
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Recognition for Excellence
Jayne Anne Phillips
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Honored for
Night Watch
, her “beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War.” Jayne Anne Phillips is Board of Governors Professor of English Emerita and founding director of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Rutgers–Newark.
Martin Blaser
Research.com Best Microbiology Scientists
Ranked 7th most prominent microbiologist in the world and known for his “immunology research that focuses on disease and how it connects with microbiome.” Martin Blaser is the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine.
Shawna Hudson
National Academy of Medicine Member
Recognized for addressing “vital U.S. health system implementation challenges for vulnerable populations [including] research that integrates care of cancer and other chronic illnesses for patients and families.” Medical sociologist Shawna Hudson is Rutgers Health vice chancellor for dissemination and implementation science.
"John Lewis: A Life" by David Greenberg
Notable Biography
“This richly insightful biography tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative and a moral force in America.”—
New York Times
reviewing
John Lewis: A Life
, by David Greenberg, professor of history and journalism and media studies.
Life-Changing Health Care
M. Maral Mouradian, M.D.
Director of the American Parkinson Disease Association Center for Advanced Research at Rutgers
Health Care for All
Rutgers improves health care across New Jersey, pioneering new treatments, offering the latest clinical trials, and delivering compassionate clinical care. Rutgers educates the next generation of providers at the state’s top schools for medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and health professions. Rutgers Health, New Jersey’s academic health center, partners with RWJBarnabas Health to jointly operate a world-class academic health system dedicated to reducing health disparities and delivering high-quality health care for all.
Explore Health Education and Patient Care at Rutgers
A New Era of
Medical Education
Rutgers’ two medical schools are soon to become one. Amplifying Rutgers’ role as a leader in 21st-century medical education, the integration will position Rutgers with one of the largest and leading public medical schools in the country. While continuing to operate locations in both Newark and New Brunswick, the future Rutgers School of Medicine will be an unparalleled hub of biomedical and health sciences education, research, and clinical care.
More about the future Rutgers School of Medicine
Leader in Academic Health Care
#1
in the Nation for Liver Transplant Survival (
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
)
2.3 million+
Annual Patient Visits to Rutgers Health Practices
#5
in the Nation, School of Nursing D.N.P. Program (
U.S. News & World Report
)
$842.1
Million Annual Patient Care Spending
Top Cancer Care
in New Jersey
Rutgers Cancer Institute,
New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
, partners with RWJBarnabas Health to provide premier research and patient care. The institute’s new home, the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, will be the state’s first freestanding cancer hospital.
Read More about the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center
HELIX Fosters
Growth and Innovation
The Health & Life Science Exchange (HELIX) in downtown New Brunswick will house Rutgers medical school facilities, research operations, and the New Jersey Innovation Hub. Storied Nokia Bell Labs also will move to HELIX, leveraging New Brunswick’s strengths in higher education and health care.
Read More about HELIX
Parkinson's Center for Research
Rutgers is home to
one of the nation’s nine American Parkinson Disease Association Centers for Advanced Research
, delivering programs at the forefront of understanding a disease that affects 10 million people worldwide.
Health Care for 9/11 First Responders
The World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence—
New Jersey’s only WTC health center
—provides care at no cost for first responders with health conditions related to the 9/11 terror attacks.
New Jersey’s Only Dental School
The Rutgers School of Dental Medicine is the
state’s largest provider of oral health care
, with 137,000 annual patient visits.
A Great Research University
David Bushek, Marine Biologist
Director of Rutgers’ Haskin Shellfish Laboratory
Supporting Innovation
Rutgers is one of the nation’s great research universities, an engine for economic growth, a problem-solver in the short term and for the long haul, and a generator of fresh ideas that open doors to what comes next. Rutgers annually attracts nearly $1 billion in funding to support innovators across the range of human endeavor. Our research is original, responsive, thought-provoking, and purposeful in a complex world of perpetual and fast-paced change.
Discover Research at Rutgers
Research with
Economic Impact
•
1,233
active patents
•
104
active startups
•
1,390
unique technologies in active portfolio
•
255
companies engaged in research with Rutgers
Explore the Rutgers Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report
State-of-the-Art Facilities
Over 300
Rutgers research centers and institutes empower our faculty and students to create knowledge, advance economic progress, improve lives, and enrich our humanity.
Explore Rutgers Research Centers and Institutes
A Leading Research University
$969.5 Million
in Research Grants and Sponsored Programs (FY 2024)
1,390
Unique Technologies in Active Portfolio
255
Companies Engaged in Research with Rutgers
300+
Rutgers Research Centers and Institutes
Ocean’s Secrets Revealed
The internationally acclaimed Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) is unlocking Earth’s undersea secrets. RUCOOL’s latest big thing is the
world’s first circumnavigation of the ocean by a sensor-laden undersea robot
.
Using Data to Reduce Crime
Using analytics to combat crime, Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) is a
proven solution for making communities safer by forecasting high crime areas
. RTM, developed at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, uses data and technology to help the public and police analyze crime patterns, prioritize responses, and take action.
Making Bridges Safer
The Rutgers Bridge Evaluation and Accelerated Structural Testing facility (BEAST) is the
world’s only full-scale bridge laboratory
that gathers critical data on how extreme weather and heavy traffic weaken a bridge’s structural integrity—creating, in just one year, a decade’s worth of real-world wear and tear.
World’s Top Jazz Archive
The
New York Times
calls Rutgers–Newark’s Institute of Jazz Studies “
the largest repository of jazz documents, recordings and memorabilia in the world
,” with more than 300 archival collections, including an exceptional range of historic artifacts from jazz luminaries such as Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Mary Lou Williams.
Rutgers Geologist Helps NASA Plot Future Artemis Moonwalks
Rutgers geologist Juliane Gross is a member of NASA’s geology team for
humankind’s first return to the moon in more than 50 years
. The team is planning the areas to be explored in the Moon’s South Polar region, mapping the paths the astronauts will take on the surface, and determining the mission’s science activities.
Essential Database for Scientific Breakthroughs
Key to medical and biological discovery, the
Protein Data Bank (PDB) at Rutgers–New Brunswick is the world’s only open-access, 3D digital archive for proteins, DNA, and RNA
. PDB structures enabled the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.
Rutgers Innovations in Everyday Life
Impossible Burger
Developed at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center.
How the Impossible Burger got its start at Rutgers
Cranberry Varietals
Found in most cranberry products and developed at Rutgers’ Marucci Center.
Top Provider of Cranberry Varietals in North America
Grass Seed
Varieties developed at Rutgers are found everywhere from backyards to Yankee Stadium.
Rutgers Partners with Turfgrass Innovators
Lumber from Recycled Plastic
Invented by Rutgers engineer Tom Nosker.
Inventor of Recycled Plastic Lumber Receives Highest Honor
Alumni and Donors Make a Difference
Members of Rutgers’ global alumni community leave their mark wherever they go, whether they are winning Olympic gold medals, steering Fortune 500 companies, or developing new therapies to treat cancer. And donors, many of them alumni, fund access to a Rutgers education, support vital research, and advance the common good.
Wide Network of Alumni and Donors
600,400+
Alumni Worldwide
368,700+
Alumni Live in New Jersey
33,400+
Donors (FY 2024)
$256.4 Million
in Donations (FY 2024)
$2 Billion+
Endowment Fund (FY 2024)
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Great Things to Know About Rutgers
Explore the Great Things to Know about Rutgers and discover what makes Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, a distinctive and highly respected institution in the Garden State, the nation, and across the globe.
Explore Our Great:
Students
Faculty
Health Care
Research
Alumni & Donors
One of America’s
Great
Universities
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
, is a top national research university and New Jersey’s preeminent public institution of higher education. An academic, health, and research powerhouse, Rutgers is a university of academic excellence and opportunity and a change agent for the betterment of society.
Download the Great Things PDF Brochure
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Great for 259 Years and Counting
#1
University in N.J. for Dollars Devoted to R&D (
National Science Foundation
)
8th Oldest
University in the Nation
Top 100
National Universities: All Campuses (
U.S. News & World Report
)
Top 50
Employer in N.J. (
Forbes
)
71,000+
Enrolled Students (Largest in N.J.)
#1 in R&D
Rutgers devoted more than $871 million to research and development in FY 2023,
expending more in R&D than all other New Jersey universities and colleges combined
, according to the latest National Science Foundation data.
Top 50 Public Universities
Rutgers–New Brunswick, Rutgers–Newark, and Rutgers–Camden all rank among
U.S. News & World Report’
s
Top 50 public national universities
and
Top 100 national universities
. Rutgers is one of the only universities in the nation with each campus ranked in the Top 100.
Top 100 in the World
•
Center for World University Rankings
: Global 2000
•
Reuters
: World’s Most Innovative Universities
•
National Academy of Inventors
: Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Patents
•
QS World University Rankings
: Sustainability
Outstanding Academics
#1
in the Nation for Women’s History (
U.S. News & World Report
)
#2
in the Nation for Food Science and Technology (
U.S. News & World Report
)
#3
in the World for Philosophy (
QS World University Rankings
)
40+
Top 25 Programs
Latest Rutgers Rankings
Top Ranked Graduate Programs
Low or No Tuition Programs
Bridging the Gap
,
RU-N to the Top
, and
Scarlet Guarantee
are income-based financial aid programs that help cover in-state tuition and fees and reduce student debt.
Scarlet Promise Initiative
Need-based financial aid and emergency assistance are supported by
$85 million+ in donations
given to the university since 2022.
Rutgers Future Scholars
A national model for success
, this precollege program puts academically promising, low-income, first-gen students on a path to earning a college degree, with high school graduation rates as high as 99% and college enrollment rates as high as 88%.
Students on the Path to Success
Prachi Shashidhar
Honors College Finance Major
World-Class Education
Rutgers makes access to a world-class education a priority for our outstanding students. They are academically talented, driven, and experienced, which is why hundreds of employers work with Rutgers to recruit the bright new graduates who will advance their widely varied enterprises and organizations. Rutgers students are recognized for excellence as top national scholars, and they excel in every field imaginable.
A Rutgers Degree Pays Off
•
Rutgers job fairs
attract hundreds of employers
•
Top 5%
in the nation for ROI 20 years post-graduation
•
$70,000
year-one median starting salary
•
9 in 10
gain internship/professional experience
• Six months out, nearly
90% of graduates are employed
, furthering their education, serving in the military, or in a service program
Record Applications
Rutgers received a
record-setting 244,000 applications
for admission in academic year 2024–2025, affirming the university's prestige and popularity.
Great Futures Start at Rutgers
#5
in the World Job Placement for Business Schools (
)
#16
Public University in Nation Graduate Employability (
Times Higher Education
)
Top 5%
in the Nation for ROI 20 Years Post-graduation (
Payscale
)
14-Time
Top Producer of Fulbright Students
Top Students, Top Prizes
Andrew Krapivin
Churchill Scholar
Andrew Krapivin, a 2023 Goldwater Scholar, was named a Churchill Scholar in 2024, the first Rutgers–New Brunswick student in a decade to earn the award funding graduate education at the University of Cambridge in England where he is studying computer science.
Andrea Olavarrieta
U.S. Department of State Fellowship
Andrea Olavarrieta was one of 10 undergraduates nationwide awarded a 2024 U.S. State Department Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship, supporting her remaining years of baccalaureate study and paving the way for appointment as a Foreign Service diplomatic technology officer.
Julianne Chan
Udall Scholar
Environmental engineering major Julianne Chan was named both a 2024 Udall Scholar and Goldwater Scholar and a 2023 NOAA Hollings Scholar for her outstanding achievements as an undergraduate, including collaborating with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection on a project analyzing the prevalence of microplastics in wastewater.
Paul Boyd
Truman Scholar
Rutgers–Camden’s first Truman Scholar, philosophy major Paul Boyd will receive support for doctoral study leading to a career helping the incarcerated pursue higher education and prepare for life after prison. The award recognizes students who demonstrate outstanding leadership potential, a commitment to a government or nonprofit sector career, and academic excellence.
19 Years of Goldwater Scholars
Annie Wei, Elisa Bu Sha, Julianne Chan, and Anisha Jackson were named Barry Goldwater Scholars in 2024, extending to 19 years Rutgers’ streak of students earning the nation’s preeminent undergraduate research scholarship.
Building a Culture of Service
Hundreds of students, like Santiago Díaz de León Domínguez, participate in the Rutgers Scarlet Service program, which provides paid public service internships at nonprofit and government organizations to improve democracy and advance the common good.
Rutgers Team Wins International Supply Chain Competition
By triumphing at the 2024 Institute for Supply Management International Student Case Competition, Rutgers Business School M.B.A. students ended the three-year reign of Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
Stellar Faculty Drive Discovery
Lindsey McDougle, School of Public Affairs and Administration
2024 Faculty Service Award Recipient
Forging New Paths
Leading scientists, scholars, artists, and practitioners, Rutgers faculty come to New Jersey from across the nation and around the world. This international constellation of superb minds is forging new paths for discovery, creating new knowledge across disciplines, and teaching and mentoring the creative and nimble workforce we need as a nation. The work of our faculty is supported and recognized by the most esteemed academies, agencies, associations, and foundations. The scholarly influence of our faculty extends well beyond spaces where their everyday endeavors yield brilliant results.
Guggenheim Fellows
Three Rutgers–New Brunswick professors have earned a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious honor recognizing their vital work in addressing pressing challenges facing humanity. The Rutgers candidates were among 188 fellows selected from a pool of 3,000 across 52 disciplines.
Read More
Teachers, Scholars, Researchers
25,000+
Classes Taught Annually
44,300+
Scholarly Publications by Faculty, 2020–2024
42
Current Recipients of NSF CAREER Awards
80+
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Recognition for Excellence
Jayne Anne Phillips
Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Honored for
Night Watch
, her “beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War.” Jayne Anne Phillips is Board of Governors Professor of English Emerita and founding director of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Rutgers–Newark.
Martin Blaser
Research.com Best Microbiology Scientists
Ranked 7th most prominent microbiologist in the world and known for his “immunology research that focuses on disease and how it connects with microbiome.” Martin Blaser is the Henry Rutgers Chair of the Human Microbiome and director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine.
Shawna Hudson
National Academy of Medicine Member
Recognized for addressing “vital U.S. health system implementation challenges for vulnerable populations [including] research that integrates care of cancer and other chronic illnesses for patients and families.” Medical sociologist Shawna Hudson is Rutgers Health vice chancellor for dissemination and implementation science.
"John Lewis: A Life" by David Greenberg
Notable Biography
“This richly insightful biography tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative and a moral force in America.”—
New York Times
reviewing
John Lewis: A Life
, by David Greenberg, professor of history and journalism and media studies.
Life-Changing Health Care
M. Maral Mouradian, M.D.
Director of the American Parkinson Disease Association Center for Advanced Research at Rutgers
Health Care for All
Rutgers improves health care across New Jersey, pioneering new treatments, offering the latest clinical trials, and delivering compassionate clinical care. Rutgers educates the next generation of providers at the state’s top schools for medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and health professions. Rutgers Health, New Jersey’s academic health center, partners with RWJBarnabas Health to jointly operate a world-class academic health system dedicated to reducing health disparities and delivering high-quality health care for all.
Explore Health Education and Patient Care at Rutgers
A New Era of
Medical Education
Rutgers’ two medical schools are soon to become one. Amplifying Rutgers’ role as a leader in 21st-century medical education, the integration will position Rutgers with one of the largest and leading public medical schools in the country. While continuing to operate locations in both Newark and New Brunswick, the future Rutgers School of Medicine will be an unparalleled hub of biomedical and health sciences education, research, and clinical care.
More about the future Rutgers School of Medicine
Leader in Academic Health Care
#1
in the Nation for Liver Transplant Survival (
Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
)
2.3 million+
Annual Patient Visits to Rutgers Health Practices
#5
in the Nation, School of Nursing D.N.P. Program (
U.S. News & World Report
)
$842.1
Million Annual Patient Care Spending
Top Cancer Care
in New Jersey
Rutgers Cancer Institute,
New Jersey’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
, partners with RWJBarnabas Health to provide premier research and patient care. The institute’s new home, the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center, will be the state’s first freestanding cancer hospital.
Read More about the Jack and Sheryl Morris Cancer Center
HELIX Fosters
Growth and Innovation
The Health & Life Science Exchange (HELIX) in downtown New Brunswick will house Rutgers medical school facilities, research operations, and the New Jersey Innovation Hub. Storied Nokia Bell Labs also will move to HELIX, leveraging New Brunswick’s strengths in higher education and health care.
Read More about HELIX
Parkinson's Center for Research
Rutgers is home to
one of the nation’s nine American Parkinson Disease Association Centers for Advanced Research
, delivering programs at the forefront of understanding a disease that affects 10 million people worldwide.
Health Care for 9/11 First Responders
The World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence—
New Jersey’s only WTC health center
—provides care at no cost for first responders with health conditions related to the 9/11 terror attacks.
New Jersey’s Only Dental School
The Rutgers School of Dental Medicine is the
state’s largest provider of oral health care
, with 137,000 annual patient visits.
A Great Research University
David Bushek, Marine Biologist
Director of Rutgers’ Haskin Shellfish Laboratory
Supporting Innovation
Rutgers is one of the nation’s great research universities, an engine for economic growth, a problem-solver in the short term and for the long haul, and a generator of fresh ideas that open doors to what comes next. Rutgers annually attracts nearly $1 billion in funding to support innovators across the range of human endeavor. Our research is original, responsive, thought-provoking, and purposeful in a complex world of perpetual and fast-paced change.
Discover Research at Rutgers
Research with
Economic Impact
•
1,233
active patents
•
104
active startups
•
1,390
unique technologies in active portfolio
•
255
companies engaged in research with Rutgers
Explore the Rutgers Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report
State-of-the-Art Facilities
Over 300
Rutgers research centers and institutes empower our faculty and students to create knowledge, advance economic progress, improve lives, and enrich our humanity.
Explore Rutgers Research Centers and Institutes
A Leading Research University
$969.5 Million
in Research Grants and Sponsored Programs (FY 2024)
1,390
Unique Technologies in Active Portfolio
255
Companies Engaged in Research with Rutgers
300+
Rutgers Research Centers and Institutes
Ocean’s Secrets Revealed
The internationally acclaimed Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RUCOOL) is unlocking Earth’s undersea secrets. RUCOOL’s latest big thing is the
world’s first circumnavigation of the ocean by a sensor-laden undersea robot
.
Using Data to Reduce Crime
Using analytics to combat crime, Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) is a
proven solution for making communities safer by forecasting high crime areas
. RTM, developed at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, uses data and technology to help the public and police analyze crime patterns, prioritize responses, and take action.
Making Bridges Safer
The Rutgers Bridge Evaluation and Accelerated Structural Testing facility (BEAST) is the
world’s only full-scale bridge laboratory
that gathers critical data on how extreme weather and heavy traffic weaken a bridge’s structural integrity—creating, in just one year, a decade’s worth of real-world wear and tear.
World’s Top Jazz Archive
The
New York Times
calls Rutgers–Newark’s Institute of Jazz Studies “
the largest repository of jazz documents, recordings and memorabilia in the world
,” with more than 300 archival collections, including an exceptional range of historic artifacts from jazz luminaries such as Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Mary Lou Williams.
Rutgers Geologist Helps NASA Plot Future Artemis Moonwalks
Rutgers geologist Juliane Gross is a member of NASA’s geology team for
humankind’s first return to the moon in more than 50 years
. The team is planning the areas to be explored in the Moon’s South Polar region, mapping the paths the astronauts will take on the surface, and determining the mission’s science activities.
Essential Database for Scientific Breakthroughs
Key to medical and biological discovery, the
Protein Data Bank (PDB) at Rutgers–New Brunswick is the world’s only open-access, 3D digital archive for proteins, DNA, and RNA
. PDB structures enabled the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.
Rutgers Innovations in Everyday Life
Impossible Burger
Developed at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center.
How the Impossible Burger got its start at Rutgers
Cranberry Varietals
Found in most cranberry products and developed at Rutgers’ Marucci Center.
Top Provider of Cranberry Varietals in North America
Grass Seed
Varieties developed at Rutgers are found everywhere from backyards to Yankee Stadium.
Rutgers Partners with Turfgrass Innovators
Lumber from Recycled Plastic
Invented by Rutgers engineer Tom Nosker.
Inventor of Recycled Plastic Lumber Receives Highest Honor
Alumni and Donors Make a Difference
Members of Rutgers’ global alumni community leave their mark wherever they go, whether they are winning Olympic gold medals, steering Fortune 500 companies, or developing new therapies to treat cancer. And donors, many of them alumni, fund access to a Rutgers education, support vital research, and advance the common good.
Wide Network of Alumni and Donors
600,400+
Alumni Worldwide
368,700+
Alumni Live in New Jersey
33,400+
Donors (FY 2024)
$256.4 Million
in Donations (FY 2024)
$2 Billion+
Endowment Fund (FY 2024)
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