Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The Graduate School-New Brunswick
25 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1181

The Graduate School - New Brunswick, part of Rutgers University, offers masters and doctoral degrees in fields that offer such advanced programs. Together with the Graduate School-Newark, the university has an enrollment of approximately 4,000 students in over 100 doctoral and masters programs. Though the size of the student body is large, because of the diverse number of degree programs, class size is limited.

Rutgers' graduate school sponsors many centers and institutes that are at the center of student research. Many members of the graduate faculty sit on the boards of these bureaus while research takes place under their guidance. Student research is often funded by the sponsoring institutes. Some of these bureaus include the Center for Cognitive Science, Eagleton Institute of Politics, and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, among many more.

The Graduate School - New Brunswick and Newark have over 15,000 alumni living in more than 40 countries. Leaders in education, government and science have emerged from Rutgers graduate programs and can be found in nearly every industry of arts and sciences. The Graduate School also has an International Research program for students interested in taking their studies global.

Quick Facts:

The Graduate School-New Brunswick, has eight programs ranked in the top 20 in their fields by the National Research Council.

The Graduate School awards more than 700 degrees annually.

About 75 graduate students yearly receive nationally competitive fellowships.

Students at the Graduate School are encouraged by like-minded faculty to explore subjects of interests without being impeded by routines and requirements found at the undergraduate levels<./li>

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