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The Premiere Urban Renaissance
Program Overview | Letter from the Dean  | Mission

"A Rutgers Education in the heart of an awakened city prepares students for a bright and intellectually challenging future at a time when cultural diversity, urban ingenuity and civic sophistications area once again at the center of Newark's purpose and the nation's destiny." 

- Prof. Clement Price

The Honors College is located in the University Heights and Science Park sections of downtown Newark, a place where the best of urban culture and business meets quaint college town.  University Heights, consisting of Rutgers-Newark, NJIT, Essex County College and UMDNJ, has over 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students who attend classes, many of whom live in campus residence halls and off campus housing.  The Honors College even has two honors-only residence hall floors staffed by upperclass honors college RA's.  We invite you to come visit and see for yourself how alive our campus is with academic and social events, intellectual discussions, and students who take advantage of the various artistic and cultural attractions of our city and neighboring New York.   

Location, Location, Location:

• Minutes away from some of the east coast’s premiere cultural institutions including NJPAC, the Newark Museum,  the NJ Historical Society, and the Newark Public Library.

• Centrally located: 20 minutes by train to New York City, 1 hour by train to Philadelphia, and 1 hour by plane to Washington D.C.

• Newark  is home to one of the most impressive and successful urban revitalization efforts taking place in the country today resulting in an influx of private business, development projects, and non-for-profit institutions that all offer a rich array of opportunities for our students.  

A Small College in a Large Research University:

• Access to all the majors offered through the Newark College of Arts and Sciences, University College, Rutgers Business School, and Nursing School.

• The opportunity to take part in the accelerated Pre-Med, Engineering, Pharmacy and Nursing programs.

• Use of all university facilities including the Paul Robeson Campus Center (features student activity centers, art gallery, game room, coffee shop, and food court), Golden Dome Athletic Center (includes five outdoor tennis courts, four racquetball courts, an NCAA regulation pool, two gymnasiums, exercise and weight rooms, and a multipurpose athletic field with an all-season running track), Visual and Performing Arts Center (features a 138-seat theater, television production center, and art and music studios), Two residence halls, housing 700 students (The university will be breaking ground on a third residence hall in summer 2004), Dana Library  (featuring 500,000 books and bound periodicals, 360,000 items in micro-format, 250 CD-ROM databases, and 2,500 subscriptions to periodicals and journals, and no-hassle access to all the libraries and resources in the Rutgers System), the Career Development Center (Counselors provide direct assistance to students and alumni in identifying academic and/or career options), and Computing Services (With 17 on-campus computer labs featuring both PC and Mac, and services that include remote access to the Rutgers network and individual web-based e-mail accounts).

• The chance to attend the university that U.S. News and World Report has consistently ranked number one in diversity since their rankings began.