Undergraduate Education in Newark
The Newark campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
offers students the advantages of a personalized education at a
moderately sized campus, combined with the superior classroom, library,
and laboratory facilities of a major research university. Located near
the heart of the state's largest city, within the nation's liveliest
metropolitan area, Rutgers-Newark upholds the dual mission of access
with academic excellence.
Rutgers-Newark's richest resource is its faculty of 500 distinguished
scholars and educators and the scholarly research that enriches the
classroom for students. Since teaching is a value that pervades the
Rutgers-Newark campus, the university recruits faculty members for both
their scholarly abilities and for their commitment to teaching.
Rutgers' Newark campus was selected by U.S. News & World Report as
among "America's Best Colleges."
Newark College of Arts and Sciences and University College-Newark
There are two undergraduate liberal arts colleges on Rutgers'
Newark campus: Newark College of Arts and Sciences (NCAS), with a
student enrollment of about 4,300, and University College-Newark
(UC-N), which enrolls about 2,000 students. Together, they offer majors
in more than 45 fields of study.
Newark College of Arts and Sciences serves the more traditional college
student who attends classes during the day, while University
College-Newark is primarily an evening and weekend college for adult
students who work during the day and who attend college part time.
Instruction at the two colleges is provided by the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences-Newark (FAS-N). Both NCAS and UC-N offer the best of the
undergraduate liberal arts tradition and provide excellence in
preprofessional studies in such areas as medicine, law, business, and
other disciplines. With a moderate-sized student population, FAS-N is
able to offer students the benefits of small classes and the
opportunity to work with faculty members on an individual basis.
College of Nursing
The College of Nursing educates women and men for entry into the
profession of nursing at the baccalaureate degree level. The college
also provides education for the registered nurse and second degree
student seeking a baccalaureate degree in nursing. The nursing program
is offered in Newark, New Brunswick, and Freehold (at the Western
Monmouth Higher Education Center) with a curriculum that includes
liberal arts, sciences, and the humanities, and the nursing major,
which focuses on optimization of health through health promotion, risk
reduction, illness and symptom management, and leadership and
management skills within the profession. The curriculum is designed to
promote intellectual curiosity, human compassion, and dedication to
nursing practice. Students' clinical experiences are supervised by
faculty and integrated with course work.
As the largest provider of professional nurses in the state of New
Jersey, Rutgers has a distinguished record of education since 1942.
Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate-Newark
The Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate-Newark is a four-year,
undergraduate school that offers programs in accounting, finance,
management, and marketing. All programs are accredited by the AACSB-The
International Association for Management Education. The business school
faculty also provide management education at the Rutgers Business
School: Graduate Programs-Newark and New Brunswick. Students benefit
from the depth and breadth of knowledge held by faculty responsible for
business education from the bachelor¿s degree to the doctoral level.
Graduates gain an in-depth understanding of their area of concentration
within the management curriculum; acquire knowledge of uses and
applications of computers; learn to work in team settings to analyze
and address complex management problems; think critically and bring
innovative approaches to problem solving; and gain an appreciation for
international aspects of business. Coupled with their professional
education, students receive a solid grounding in the liberal arts.
Corporate offices of more than 200 of the nation's largest companies
lie within a 50-mile radius of the Rutgers-Newark campus, offering a
stimulating and dynamic environment for interaction between the campus
and the corporate community.
Excellence and Access
Rutgers-Newark's undergraduate programs provide students with the
knowledge and skills to participate fully in the economic, scientific,
cultural, and political life of the state, the nation, and an evolving
and increasingly interdependent world.
Rutgers-Newark, with more than 70 countries represented among the
nationalities of its student population, serves as a role model for
high-quality urban university centers that wish to pursue the dual
goals of excellence and access. The campus takes pride in its
leadership role in educating a racially and ethnically diverse group of
students to become literate and productive citizens, prepared for
future opportunities and challenges.
The Campus and the City
The 35-acre Rutgers-Newark campus is a modern complex with a
student population of more than 9,500 and is located in the center of
an educational, medical, and cultural district known as University
Heights. Newark, the business, financial, and legal center of New
Jersey, is also a college town. Rutgers and its academic neighbors, the
New Jersey Institute of Technology, the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey, Essex County College, and Seton Hall Law
School, provide a wide range of higher education opportunities to a
student population of almost 40,000.
In addition to the Newark College of Arts and Sciences, University
College-Newark, the College of Nursing, and the Rutgers Business
School: Undergraduate-Newark, there are four other colleges on the
campus: the Graduate School-Newark, the School of Law-Newark, the
School of Criminal Justice, and the Rutgers Business School: Graduate
Programs-Newark and New Brunswick. Rutgers-Newark also is home to the
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, within the Aidekman
Research Center, where an international faculty conducts intensive
research on such brain disorders as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
diseases, stroke, dyslexia, and schizophrenia. The Joseph C. Cornwall
Center for Metropolitan Studies, the Center for Global Change and
Governance, and the Center for Information Management, Integration and
Connectivity are located at the university as well.
On campus, an array of theater performances, lectures, concerts, films,
and exhibits provides an active cultural environment. A wide range of
athletic and recreational facilities is available in the Golden Dome
Athletic Center, including a swimming pool, racquetball courts, two
gymnasiums, and workout rooms equipped with aerobic and Nautilus
machines and free weights.
The campus is wholly computer-linked through a fiberoptic cable.
Student residence-hall rooms are wired to accept personal computers and
are able to connect to the vast array of offerings on the Internet. The
technologically state-of-the-art John Cotton Dana Library has a
computerized card catalog that includes the more than three million
holdings in the Rutgers library system. A growing collection of CD-ROMs
and computer workstations are also available at Dana Library. A
recently completed addition to the library significantly increases
shelf space and provides additional study and meeting areas that are
especially appreciated by commuting students. The Institute of Jazz
Studies, renowned by music scholars around the world for its unmatched
collection of jazz archives, is now housed in the Dana Library.
Rutgers-Newark enjoys a close interinstitutional relationship with the
adjacent New Jersey Institute of Technology. The schools' congruent
academic calendars and complementary curriculum offerings have led to
some 1,000 students cross-registering for courses. This consortial
relationship increases the variety and depth of courses available to
Rutgers¿Newark liberal arts students.
Newark's cultural community includes such well-visited institutions as
the Newark Public Library, the Newark Museum, the New Jersey Historical
Society, and the world-class New Jersey Performing Arts Center complex,
home to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, just a few blocks from the
campus. The city's central business district has been transformed by
new glass, brick, and steel office buildings, and relandscaped parks.
Newark recently won its second All-American City Award. Newark has a
superb public transportation system and is readily accessible by car,
bus, or train. Nearby Newark Liberty International Airport is among the
nation's fastest-growing airports.
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