The Newark College of Arts and Sciences was founded in 1930 as a four-year liberal arts institution affiliated with the New Jersey Law School. Dana College-as it was first called-began with a faculty of 15 and fewer than three hundred students. Six years later and almost twice as large, Dana was renamed the Newark College of Arts and Sciences when it became the undergraduate division of the newly formed University of Newark. In 1946, the University of Newark and Rutgers University were merged to form Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.