College Bound: RUTGERS

Rutgers was originally contracted as Queen’s College and is the eighth oldest in the United States. It is one of the only nine colleges created before the American Revolution began. Rutgers started out as a private university joined with the Dutch
Reformed Church and only admitted male students. However, it became a coeducational university that is nonsectarian.


It is one of two colonial colleges that evolved into public universities later on.
Rutgers was titled the State University of New jersey by acts of the New Jersey
Legislature in 1945 and 1956. It is ranked forty-sixth in the world academically according to a 2006 survey.

Rutgers offers more then one hundred bachelor, one hundred master, and fifty
doctoral and professional degree programs covering 175 academicc departments, 29 degree granting school and colleges, sixteen of which offer graduate programs. The university graduates more than ten thousand students each year.

I would like to attend this school not only because it is very prestigious, but
also because almost all of my immediate family has gone to this school. My mother, father, and aunt went to this school, and my older brother is currently going to Rutgers Camden right now. So, you can see that this is a personal thing for me as
well as just a choice in schools.

Words of Wisdom from the Attendees:

“To be free- to walk the good American
earth as equal citizens, to live without fear,
to enjoy the fruits of our toil to give our
children every opportunity- that dream
which we have held so long in our hearts is
today the destiny that we hold in our hands.”
- Paul Robeson, Rutgers graduate

“…I think the independent motivation I
learned from my success at Rutgers has
certainly helped me to progress through
medical school, and I know that the diverse
experiences I encountered there will guide
me in my profession.”
-Randon Hall