Rutgers State University of New Jersey New Brunswick is a university, with the main campus located in New Brunswick (also stretching in Piscataway), the county seat of Middlesex County, a city with more than 50 000 inhabitants (2006) in New Jersey, located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, 31 miles southwest of New York City, on the southern bank of the Raritan River.

The university was originally chartered as Queen’s College, in 1766, being designated The State University of New Jersey by acts of the New Jersey Legislature in 1945 and 1956, and it is the 8th oldest college in the United States. In addition to the New Brunswick campus, the university also has other 2 campuses in Newark and Camden, being the largest university within New Jersey’s state university system.

Rutgers – New Brunswick offers its students more than 100 distinct bachelor, 100 master, and 80 doctoral and professional degree programs, in 175 academic departments, 29 degree-granting schools and colleges, 16 of which offer graduate programs of study, being ranked 54th in the world, and 38th nation-wide, academically, in a 2008 survey conducted by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The athletic teams at the New Brunswick campus are known as the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, who compete in the Big East Conference, which participates in Division I competition, in various sports, including in basketball, baseball, football, gymnastics, golf, soccer, softball and tennis. Rutgers University is often referred to as ‘’The Birthplace of College Football’’, due to the fact that the first intercollegiate football game was held on College Field, between Rutgers and Princeton, on a plot of ground where the present-day College Avenue Gymnasium now stands.

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights have experienced victory many times in the past years, in many of their sports, most recently, the football team has achieved success on the gridiron after several years of losing seasons, being invited to the Insight Bowl on 27 December 2005, in which they lost 45 to 40 against Arizona State University. Since joining the Big East, The Scarlet Knights have won 5 Big East Conference tournament titles, of which one is in men’s soccer, in ’97, one in men’s track &field, in 2005, 2 in baseball, in 2000 and 2007, and one in women’ s basketball, in 2007.

Among the most resonant names on the list of notable alumni, there are: Milton Friedman - economist, Public Intellectual, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Selman Waksman - Professor of Microbiology, discovered 22 antibiotics (including Streptomycin); winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Christopher McCulloch - Creator of The Venture Bros, Richard H. Askin - CEO of Tribune Entertainment and President of Samuel Goldwyn Television, Marian Calabro - author and publisher of history books and the founder and president of CorporateHistory.net, including many others.