The number preceding each course title is divided into three parts.
The first two digits are the administrative code (standing for a
faculty or a school), the next three digits are the subject code, and
the final three digits are the course code.
Administrative Codes
The administrative code for the Graduate School-New Brunswick is 16.
The following administrative codes may be relevant for graduate
students at Rutgers University-New Brunswick:
01 School of Arts and Sciences
08 Mason Gross School of the Arts (graduate courses)
11 School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
14 School of Engineering
15 Graduate School of Education (graduate courses)
16 Graduate School-New Brunswick
17 School of Communication and Information (graduate courses)
18 Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
19 School of Social Work (graduate courses)
26 Graduate School-Newark
31 Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
34 Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
38 School of Management and Labor Relations
53 School of Business-Camden
56 Graduate School-Camden
70 Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
75 School of Public Health
76 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Subject Codes
A subject code comprises the third through fifth digits in all course
numbers and indicates the subject matter of the course. The following
subject codes are used in this catalog:
016 African Studies
070 Anthropology
082 Art History
098 Asian Studies
107 Atmospheric Science
115 Biochemistry
116 Bioenvironmental Engineering
125 Biomedical Engineering
137 Business and Science
148 Cell and Developmental Biology
155 Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
160 Chemistry and Chemical Biology
165 Chinese
175 Cinema Studies
180 Civil and Environmental Engineering
185 Cognitive Science
186 College Teaching
187 College and University Leadership
190 Classics
194 Communication, Information and Library Studies
195 Comparative Literature
198 Computer Science
199 Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering
215 Ecology and Evolution
217 East Asian Languages and Cultures
220 Economics
300 Education
332 Electrical and Computer Engineering
335 Energy
340 Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences
350 English
352 English (Composition Studies)
355 Writing for Graduate Students
356 English as a Second Language
357 American Language Studies
370 Entomology
375 Environmental Sciences
378 Environmental Change, Human Dimensions of
395 Food and Business Economics
400 Food Science
420 French
450 Geography
455 Geospatial Information Science
460 Geological Sciences
470 German
475 Global Sports Business
486 Graduate Student Professional Development
507 Higher Education
510 History
540 Industrial and Systems Engineering
545 Industrial Relations and Human Resources
550 Landscape Architecture
554 Interdisciplinary
560 Italian
563 Jewish Studies
572 Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
615 Linguistics
617 Literature and Language
635 Materials Science and Engineering
640 Mathematics
642 Mathematics, Applied
643 Mathematical Finance
644 Mathematics for Teachers
650 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
663 Medicinal Chemistry
667 Medieval Studies
681 Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
682 Microbial Biology
695 Molecular Biosciences
696 Molecular Biophysics
700 Music
709 Nutritional Sciences
710 Neuroscience
712 Oceanography
714 Perceptual Science
718 Pharmacology, Cellular and Molecular
720 Pharmaceutical Science
725 Pharmaceuticals and Clinical Trials Management
730 Philosophy
731 Packaging Engineering
750 Physics and Astronomy
761 Physiology and Integrative Biology
762 Planning and Public Policy
765 Plant Biology
790 Political Science
830 Psychology
832 Public Health
840 Religion
841 Religious Studies
848 Quantitative Biomedicine
855 Quaternary Studies
859 Russian, Central and East European Studies
885 Science and Technology Management
910 Social Work
920 Sociology
940 Spanish
954 Statistics - Data Science
958 Financial Statistics and Risk Management
960 Statistics and Biostatistics
963 Toxicology
988 Women's and Gender Studies
Course Codes
The course code comprises the sixth, seventh, and eighth digits in all course numbers.
When two course codes are separated by a comma, each semester course may be
taken independently of the other. If two course codes are separated by
a hyphen, students must complete satisfactorily the first course before
taking the second one. Students may take the first course for credit
without taking the second course unless a statement is added to
indicate that both semester credits must be taken in order to receive
credit.
Programs, Faculty, and Courses 
