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Information for Industry Partners

Do Business With Rutgers

Industry decision makers are invited to explore the cutting-edge research, licensing opportunities, top-notch training, deep pool of well-educated talent, and myriad resources offered by this leading center of learning. Find out how Rutgers can meet your needs via the Business Portal.

Workforce Preparation, Workforce Trends

Rutgers’ most essential service is providing the well-educated workforce New Jersey and the nation need to stay ahead.

Undergraduate and Graduate Education

More than 50,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled at Rutgers–New Brunswick, studying everything from nanotechnology and pharmaceutics to writing and statistics.

Continuing Studies

From customized courses offered at your place of business to prep courses for professional licensure to certificate and degree programs offered at Rutgers–New Brunswick, online, and at satellite sites, continuing studies programs give your employees—and your organization—the competitive advantage.

Career Exploration and Success

Connect with Career Exploration and Success at Rutgers–New Brunswick to find ready-to-hit-the-ground-running students and alumni who can fill essential roles in your organization. Meet candidates face-to-face at our job events; post your internship, co-op, or job opening with our Rutgers–New Brunswick Handshake service; or peruse our résumé database.

Workforce Development and Trends

Research-driven data can help business and industry anticipate and plan for the future. The schools, centers, and institutes listed below provide empirically-based studies of workforce, labor, and management trends and issues.

World-Class Researchers, Centers, and Reports

Research & Development

Optimize your company’s R&D when you tap our unrivaled personnel and New Jersey’s most extensive network of specialized research laboratories and facilities.

Center and Laboratory Industrial Memberships

Companies with advisory, member, or sponsor relationships with our research centers benefit from a shared pool of data, access to specialized R&D equipment and labs at competitive rates, visiting scientist options, and collaboration with faculty and student experts. Here is a sampling of Rutgers centers with such relationships.

Rutgers Technology You Can Take to Market

Rutgers is an economic engine, creating exciting inventions that the private sector can license and market to improve life in many areas. Established firms and startups alike partner with Rutgers to build new businesses. Explore technologies in biomedicine, IT, engineering, and agriculture that Rutgers has available for technology transfer.

A Go-To Resource for Objective Economic Analysis

Rutgers–New Brunswick produces New Jersey’s most highly regarded objective research reports on the state of the regional and national economy—vital information for business and industry decision makers.

Agriculture, Aquaculture, and Green Business

The Rutgers-based New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) has information, research, workshops, and experts to keep agricultural and marine businesses on top economically and attuned environmentally.

NJAES Centers, Institutes, and Off-Campus Stations

From the Center for Turfgrass Science’s nationally renowned development of commercial grasses to the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory’s concentration on shellfish species that are commercially important to New Jersey, NJAES centers, institutes, and off-campus stations help businesses make decisions based on objective data, sound science, and environmental sensitivity.

New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Services

Business and Management Centers

Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick and the School of Management and Labor Relations each offer a full range of academic, research, business consulting, and community outreach services.

Additional Services

Looking to Hire Rutgers Grads or Interns?

Rutgers graduates are prepared to take on the world, and employers are wise to hire them. If you’re a recruiter seeking peerless talent, contact Career Exploration and Success to build awareness, publicize internships, and meet the students and alumni who can move your organization forward.

University Inn and Conference Center

Book events of all kinds at the University Inn and Conference Center, a retreat-style facility nestled within 21 beautiful wooded acres of the Douglass Campus. The center offers an ideal setting for training seminars, overnight staff retreats, or meetings.

Library and Information Resources

Businesses can access databases, reference books, and internet resources at the Rutgers University Libraries business gateway.

Expert Speakers

Rutgers scholars and professionals are available to speak at your function. Find out how by contacting the Rutgers Speakers Bureau.

Connect With Researchers

Rutgers' research advances business and industry in the Garden State and beyond, helping companies reach the next level by connecting them with knowledgeable faculty, staff, and students.

Many Ways to Connect with Researchers

Rutgers cultivates rewarding research relationships with business and industry. Here’s how we can help:

  • Provide opportunities to sponsor research
  • Collaborate with the public and private sectors to grow targeted businesses
  • Produce unbiased studies to help companies make strategic decisions
  • Conduct advanced research sponsored by the private sector, foundations, and government
  • Make the latest inventions available for licensing and marketing through technology commercialization

Working with Rutgers: Where to Get Started

Sponsored research is any research conducted at Rutgers that is supported by an external funding entity, such as a private corporation, foundation, or government agency. Our faculty and staff expertise make Rutgers–New Brunswick a valued partner for nearly any potential research sponsor. 

Start with Rutgers' Business Portal, then explore Rutgers' research centers and institutes. Connection through these offices:

Rutgers Technology Can Take You to Market

Rutgers–New Brunswick is an economic engine for New Jersey, helping business and industry advance specific goals and creating exciting inventions that the private sector can license and market to improve life in many areas. If you’re looking for true innovation, explore the latest breakthroughs in biomedicine, engineering, and agriculture that Rutgers has available for technology transfer.

With unrivaled personnel, New Jersey's most extensive network of research laboratories and facilities, and a track record of successful commercialization, Rutgers can boost your company's R&D. Along with low transaction costs and rapid turnaround, you gain access to:

  • World-class faculty and research staff
  • Specialized high-tech equipment, laboratories, and techniques
  • Basic and applied research and consulting services
  • A simplified approach to contracts and research agreements

Spotlight: Hops Research for Brewers

Rutgers researchers are working with hops farmers across the state to identify best practices for growing and analyzing crops to better serve the growing number of micro brewers in New Jersey.

Access to Critical Insight and Timely Information

Our research mission includes in-depth analysis in areas such as labor, management, economics, and public policy. It's information that can help you anticipate trends and devise competitive strategies.

What's Next for New Jersey's Labor, Management, and Workforce

The labor and workforce schools, centers, and institutes listed below provide empirically-based studies of trends and issues that help business and industry plan for the future.

Center and Laboratory Industrial Memberships

Many centers have industrial advisory, sponsor, and member boards that benefit both Rutgers and the business community. Benefits include access to a shared pool of research data, specialized R&D equipment, and labs at competitive rates; visiting scientist options; and close communication with faculty and students whose research is consistently ahead of the curve.

Below is a sampling of Rutgers research entities with industrial advisory boards, memberships, or sponsorships.

A Go-To Resource for Objective Economic Analysis

Rutgers provides research-based information on labor, management, and workforce concerns, and produces New Jersey’s most highly regarded objective research reports on the state of the regional and national economy—vital information for business and industry decision makers.