Rutgers University is not an Ivy League school. Is Rutgers an Ivy League School? Zeete, Old Queens, New Brunswick, NJ, CC BY-SA 4.0 Leaders in science, the arts, athletics, and in politics – Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Elizabeth Warren each taught in the law school – make up a first-rate faculty worthy of any elite institution. Nearly 300 research facilities are housed on its campus, including over 175 centers and institutes focused on specific issues. Its medical and law schools lead the nation in innovation, policy, and service. Situated on the train line between Philadelphia and New York City, Rutgers represents the best of a tranquil academic oasis with easy access to everything the city can offer.Ĭonsidered one of the best large universities in the country, Rutgers currently serves over 71,000 students on its multiple campuses. Now the largest of the nine original Colonial schools, Rutgers offers a top-tier college experience with outstanding, world-renowned faculty on a hallowed campus – really four campuses with separate styles and purposes.

Rutgers (originally Queen’s College) convened its first class in a tavern, but today it serves as one of the top research institutions in the world. Most of these Colonial Colleges were founded to educate ministers, but they’ve gone on to produce Presidents and Nobel Prize winners. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the eighth-oldest college in the United States, holds this impressive distinction, along with all but one school among the institutions known collectively as the “Ivy League.” Only nine colleges in America established their charters before the American Revolution.

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