Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly called Rutgers University, is a large public land-grant research university with three campuses in New Jersey. It was chartered in 1766 as Queen's College, affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church, and renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of Colonel Henry Rutgers, whose gift had stabilized its finances. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Private until the middle of the twentieth century, it was designated the State University of New Jersey by the legislature in 1945 and 1956.