OpenFieldRutgers New Brunswick · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is the flagship campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a world-renowned Big Ten public research powerhouse (R1/AAU member), chartered in 1766 as Queen's College. Globally celebrated for mathematics, philosophy, computer science, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, and plant biology.
Rutgers-New Brunswick spans five historic campuses (College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, Cook, and Douglass) connected along the Raritan River. It hosts the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, and the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy.
Admissions are competitive and holistic. Undergraduate applicants submit transcripts, coursework profile, and optional test scores (test-optional). Graduate and doctoral applicants apply directly to individual graduate schools and departments, requiring strong discipline-specific academic credentials, research portfolios, and faculty mentor endorsements.
Elite doctoral program renowned for theoretical computer science, machine learning, algorithmic game theory, computer vision, and robotics at DIMACS.
Internationally top-ranked mathematics doctoral program specializing in algebraic geometry, combinatorics, partial differential equations, Lie theory, and mathematical physics.
Pioneering doctoral program developing neuro-engineering prosthetics, stem cell scaffolds, nanomedicine formulations, and 3D bioprinting in the Busch Campus engineering laboratories.
Nation's premier pharmacy school offering direct-entry and professional clinical rotations across RWJBarnabas Health and New Jersey's major pharmaceutical corridor.
Consistently ranked #1 or #2 in the English-speaking world for philosophy, offering world-leading faculty in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and philosophy of language.
Prestigious research fellowship at the historic institute founded by Nobel laureate Selman Waksman, investigating RNA transcription, CRISPR bacterial immunity, and structural molecular genetics.
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Waksman Institute of Microbiology
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; pioneer in structural biology of bacterial RNA polymerase and antibacterial drug discovery against multidru...
View researcher profile ↗State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Department of Computer Science & Mathematics
Abel Prize laureate and National Academy of Sciences member; proved Szemerédi's theorem in arithmetic progressions and created the Szemerédi regularity lemma in...
View researcher profile ↗Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Distinguished Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
AIMBE Fellow and pioneer in nanomedicine, optical molecular imaging of cancer metastases, and microscale biomaterials for regenerative medicine....
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