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 Rutgers College football team in 1891. Image: Library of Congress
Reorganization effective in 2007 merged four of five semi-autonomous undergraduate colleges at New Brunswick-Piscataway campus into School of Arts and Sciences with unified admissions standards and academic requirements and 34 departments and 13 programs offering over 70 majors and minors; remaining college, Cook College established 1864 under federal legislation promoting agricultural research and support and subsequently responsible for pioneering work in development of Rutgers Tomato and controlling mosquitoes and shellfish diseases, became School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and former Douglass College, founded 1918 by Mabel Smith Douglass as New Jersey College for Women which grew to become largest women's college in US, after opposition to its abolition, compromise renamed it as Douglass Residential College, retaining four-year program with all-female dorms and offering classes on women's issues for 2,400 students> 2017 US News & World Report Best Colleges ranked Rutgers #70 of National Universities; 2016 Forbes America's Top Colleges ranked #30 of Public Colleges and #141 of all colleges. Highest national rankings of graduate programs include Drama/Theater; Mathematics; English; History; Education; and Engineering> Professor Selman Waksman awarded 1952 Nobel Prize for work in development of antibiotic Streptomycin to treat tuberculosis, other infections, proceeds from commercial sale aided establishment of Waksman Institute of Microbiology on Busch Campus in Piscataway, also 175 other centers and institutes working in such areas as stem cells, climate change and DNA analysis> Former Rutgers Law School professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg named 1993 to US Supreme Court; prominent alumni include athlete, singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson; US Senator Elizabeth Warren; Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Milton Friedman; sculptor George Segal; former National Basketball Association President David Stern; actor James Gandolfini; actresses Calista Flockhart, Kristin Davis and Jane Krakowski; Home Depot co-founder and NFL Atlanta Falcons owner Bernard Marcus; former FBI DIrector Louis Freeh; co-founder and CEO of NY Jets and noted entertainment agent David "Sonny" Werblin> President Robert Barchi named 2012 as 20th president, neuroscientist and former president of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and previously Provost of University of Pennsylvania, major initiatives include integration into Rutgers of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; implementation of athletic program's admission to Big Ten conference; and development of and fundraising for capital plan, including redevelopment of central New Brunswick campus with new administrative, academic buildings and student housing.
* US Department of Education, College Scorecard
* National Center for Education Statistics, College Navigator * College Board * US News & World Report, Best Colleges * Forbes, America's Top Colleges * Rutgers tests high-tech lecture halls, NJ.com, 3/1/2017
* Rutgers women's history program ranks #1 in nation, Daily Targum, 2/24/2017 * Child Health Institute of NJ Awarded $5 Million Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Research on Childhood Illnesses Prevalent in NJ, Rutgers.edu, 2/2/2017 Statistical information sources include individual institutions; US Department of Education; National Center for Education Statistics; and the New Jersey Presidents' Council. Enrollment statistics are for full-time students.
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