Undergraduate Education
Rutgers-Newark can motivate you to do great things.
If you’re ready to be challenged, value small classes, and are eager to learn diverse points of view, this is the place.
We offer the name recognition of one of America’s oldest and most respected universities, more than 45 undergraduate majors, combined with a dynamic urban locale.
Honors College
Honors College is a select community of students who are engaged in hands-on learning, critical thinking, special courses and extracurricular learning activities.
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Undergraduate Research
At a research university, you learn from great professors who are pushing and prodding the boundaries of human knowledge every day.
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Quick Facts
Campus Overview
Founded: 1908
Joined Rutgers: 1946
Campus Size: 38 acres, 33 buildings
Interim Chancellor: Philip Yeagle
Undergraduate Majors: 40+
Graduate Programs: 20+ (JD, MA, MBA, MFA, MPA, MS, Ph.D.)
Athletics: 14 NCAA Division III women and men's teams
Libraries: 4
Enrollment (fall 2012)
Total: 12,011
Undergraduates: 7,666
Graduates: 4,345
Faculty/Staff
Full-time Faculty: 585
Faculty with Terminal Degrees: 99%
Full-time Staff: 770
Students
Male/Female Ratio: 50:50
Student/Faculty Ratio: 13:1
Nations Represented: 100+
On-campus Residents: 1,280
Carnegie Classification
Basic Type: Research Universities (high research activity)
Special Classification: Community Engagement