About Rutgers & New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Rutgers University began as a colonial college and celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2016.
Rutgers University has three main locations:
Rutgers-New Brunswick (the flagship location) - Virtual tour
Rutgers-Newark
Rutgers-Camden
Rutgers-New Brunswick
Rutgers-New Brunswick is a city campus.
The New Brunswick campus is divided into 5 locations we refer to as “campuses.” Each campus has its own unique history as today’s Rutgers University is a combination of several historic colleges.
Busch Campus (this is the location of the football stadium and other sports venues)
College Avenue Campus (this is the “downtown” main location)
Cook Campus (this is the location of the original agriculture college)
Douglass Campus (this is the original location of the historic all-female Douglass College and current home to the Music Department & the Mason Gross School of the Arts performing venues).
Livingston Campus (this is the newest campus)
Rutgers University-New Brunswick Interactive Map.
Just for Halloween: Haunted Rutgers
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Rutgers University occupies lands of the Lenni Lenape people, and that despite forced assimilation and relocation, the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape People, exist today as a sovereign American Indian Nation in NJ and PA. We further acknowledge that the slave trader Philip Livingston was a founder of Queen’s College, that the university was named after Henry Rutgers, the son of a family that held people in slavery, and that many of our historic buildings are sites marking the presence and work of enslaved African Americans. The Scarlet and Black Project at Rutgers is an ongoing historical project that examines and seeks to recognize the role of Native Americans and African Americans in Rutgers’ long and complicated history.
New Brunswick, NJ
The city of New Brunswick, NJ was incorporated in 1730. The first recorded European settler operated the ferry across the Raritan River in the second half of the 17th century. In 1681, John Inian made the first land purchase in New Brunswick when he purchased land from the native Leni-Lenape peoples. New Brunswick’s colonial history is evident in several present day buildings and graveyards. For example, the third public reading of the Declaration of Independence was given in the Christ Church cemetery and gardens at 5 Paterson Street (about 5 minutes from the Hyatt). Throughout New Brunswick, you can find historical markers that provide additional information about important buildings and locations.