Welcome to Rutgers–New Brunswick
Whether you're a first-year student or well on the way to your degree, Rutgers is a big place with limitless possibilities. Click below to find handy tips to start your semester off right.
We’re 35,000+ undergraduates big but built of smaller schools and academic departments to deliver a personalized learning experience. Support is always just an office visit, email, or after-class discussion away. And Rutgers graduates are hired by a who's who of respected companies, including Amazon, Apple, Disney, and Google.
Whatever you want from your future, Rutgers can help get you there, with a wide range of undergraduate areas of study from which to choose. So: Where do you want to go?
Picking the right school is a serious decision. With its vast breadth of available programs and distinguished faculty, and proximity to two major cities, Rutgers–New Brunswick is a smart choice for your undergraduate degree.
University life can take a little getting used to. We’re always here to help, so just ask. Support is provided even before you arrive on campus, and continues long after graduation.
Set yourself up for success at Rutgers–New Brunswick with hundreds of resources designed to help students thrive in and out of the classroom. From tutoring and advising to financial aid and mental health services, you’ll find everything you need to graduate on time, minimize debt, and prepare for what’s next.
Tough class? Need to sharpen skills or deepen understanding? Rutgers Learning Centers can help you develop the capabilities and fundamental approaches to succeed in your coursework.
The expert staff at Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program & Psychiatric Services (CAPS) develops an individualized action plan based on the unique needs of each student.
Rutgers offers a range of assistance to prepare for success in the working world, from choosing the right path to developing your skills to pursuing your goals wisely and confidently.
Take advantage of general academic advising and specialized academic support available through each school's advising office. Rutgers offers guidance in coursework and careers as you move toward your graduation goals.
Rutgers honors students benefit from an inclusive integrated honors community, offering richer course options, more extracurricular opportunities, personalized advising, professional and peer mentoring, and access to honors housing in their first year and beyond.
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences Signature Courses are foundational classes covering engaging topics of grand intellectual sweep and enduring importance, taught by renowned scholars and scientists. Courses combine large faculty lectures with breakout discussions led by graduate students to achieve true intellectual exchange and community.
This course explores how religious beliefs and legends, art and movies, revolutionary hymns and street posters, dissident rock bands and poets, public executions and political advertisements, and coronations and festivals shape and legitimate, or de-legitimate, the exercise of power in the world around us.
This course explores how conflicts are constructed and searches for the means to look through and beyond them, to overcome them, and to loosen the past’s hold on the present and future.
This is an interdisciplinary course on various aspects of the city, spanning geographical, political, climactic, psychological and socioeconomic analysis.
Small classes on hot topics led by distinguished faculty
First-year Interest Group Seminars (one-credit courses) introducing students to dozens of exciting fields
Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship Academy empowers students to explore their interests
Hub for undergraduate adult and nontraditional students
Top-ranked support for veterans pursuing higher education
Beyond the books, hands-on learning opportunities can help to better prepare you for the career of your dreams. Made possible by its proximity to the Jersey Shore, Rutgers’ Scientific Diving Program offers undergraduates a certification once reserved for graduate- and PhD-level students. The diving program is just one example of how Rutgers–New Brunswick is providing valuable and highly desirable job skills.
