Rutgers

New Brunswick campus

Rutgers is a public research university in New Jersey, the eighth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

Founded in 1766, it serves as New Jersey's state university, with campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden: She got her law degree from Rutgers.

The name comes from Colonel Henry Rutgers, an early benefactor.

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