About the School of Arts and Sciences
The School of Arts and Sciences is the academic heart and soul of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
The School of Arts and Sciences provides an education of uncommon breadth and depth. With more than 800 faculty and forty departments and more than fifty centers supporting interdisciplinary scholarship, the School combines superb teaching with world-class research in an environment of remarkable cultural diversity.
The School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers has a lot to offer:
- An internationally distinguished faculty committed to the connection between research and undergraduate education
- More than 70 majors and minors in the life sciences, the physical and mathematical sciences, the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences, and international studies
- SAS Excellence Award Program Scholarships for incoming and continuing students
- An Honors Program that offers the academic environment of a liberal arts within one of leading research universities in the nation
- Enrollment in unique First-Year Seminars with senior members of the faculty
- Signature Courses led by award-winning faculty in state-of the-art lecture halls exploring questions of enduring importance and new challenges of the 21st century to create a common basis for intellectual exchange outside the classroom
- Opportunities for one-on-one research with faculty through the Aresty Research Center
- Internship and service-learning opportunities, both locally and abroad
- More than forty study abroad programs in twenty countries
- Information and support for transfer students
- Opportunities for joint degrees with other Rutgers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs
- The choice to live on any of five residential campuses, including the only all female residential college in the nation, and for off-campus students to affiliate with the activities of the campus of their choice
- More than 30 graduate degree and certificate programs and faculty connections to nearly 100 postgraduate programs university-wide
- Accelerated health professions programs, including joint degrees with medical, dental, and physician-assistant programs offered through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
We invite you to explore the many aspects of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers.
