Rutgers–Newark is one of three regional campuses of
Rutgers University, the
public research university of the
U.S. state of
New Jersey, located in the city of
Newark. Rutgers, founded in 1766 in
New Brunswick, is the
eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the
Association of American Universities. In 1945, the state legislature voted to make Rutgers University, then a private
liberal arts college, into the state university and the following year merged the school with the former
University of Newark (1936–1946), which became the Rutgers–Newark campus. Rutgers also incorporated the College of South Jersey and South Jersey Law School, in Camden, as a constituent campus of the university and renamed it
Rutgers–Camden in 1950.