Interesting history. Maybe we should start another thread for learning some of the serious stuff about Rutgers. I find it fascinating.
It sounds like Rutgers is a quite different sort of state university. Does "state university" just mean "public university?" In Iowa, the U of Northern Iowa, Iowa State, and U of Iowa are all public universities, but we are the one that bears the name "state university" because of our heritage as a land grant institution (we pride ourselves on being the first school to establish a school according to the land grant idea).
Now, back to the original purpose of the thread. R must stand for "Really Old."
Yes when I say state university I mean public university. Rutgers is the primary public research university in New Jersey. Similar to what University of Michigan is to Michigan and Ohio State is to Ohio...
We have somewhere around 56,000 total students with 46,000 undergrads...
For more info wikpedia is your friend. :smile: