Get To Know Your Rutgers Alumni Association

The Rutgers Alumni Association is the nation’s 4th oldest functioning alumni group with a historical founding in Queens College. Drawing on 189 years of leadership, tradition and a love of the alma mater, Rutgers Alumni Association recently forged a partnership with the New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences while nurturing integral relationships with other organizations and groups at Rutgers University.

Engaging Alumni

Helping Students

Celebrating Rutgers

Mission Statement

Provide a continuum for students to stay connected as they move into their new role as alumni and create an association for alumni who have graduated from SAS and its  former undergraduate colleges that preserves our heritage and embraces our future.

The Rutgers Alumni Association is a Chartered Organization of the Rutgers University Alumni Association (RUAA), and a member of the RUAA Alumni Leaders Council. We have played an important role in the ever evolving Rutgers Alumni family for more than 185 years. We also facilitate other organizations’ involvement with the University.

Constituent Schools

School Of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick
The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) is the undergraduate school for liberal arts and sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. With more than 800 full-time faculty and more than 70 majors and minors, the School of Arts and Sciences is the largest unit at the university, combining excellence in teaching with world-class research, all in an atmosphere of rich cultural diversity.
School of Management & Labor Relations
The School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) is a source of expertise on the world of work, building effective and sustainable organizations, and the changing employment relationship. The school comprises two departments with faculty from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
Graduate School, New Brunswick
The School of Graduate Studies provides personalized academic support for approximately 5,200 Rutgers students enrolled in more than 150 doctoral, master’s, and dual degree programs across New Brunswick/Piscataway and Newark.
School of Engineering
Graduates of the Rutgers School of Engineering are granted automatic membership to the Rutgers Engineering Society. The organization hosts various professional events and shares many leaders whose Rutgers devotion spans the RAA and other organizations.
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Mason Gross School of the Arts is the flagship public arts conservatory of Rutgers. Mason Gross is a community of artists—dancers, filmmakers, musicians, theater artists, and visual artists and designers—who study, teach, create, perform, and exhibit.
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Legacy Constituent Schools

The College of Agriculture
The College of Agriculture was designated as the land-grant college of New Jersey, and later evolved as needs and circumstances changed. The college was founded as the Rutgers Scientific School and later College of Agriculture after Rutgers was named New Jersey's land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862.
The School of Education
As the predecessor of the Graduate School of Education, The School of Education granted graduate degrees in the field of education. The school was founded in 1924.
Rutgers College
.The eighth of nine colleges established during the American colonial period, Rutgers was chartered as Queen's College on 10 November 1766. It was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 after Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745–1830), an American Revolutionary War hero philanthropist and an early benefactor of the school. With the development of graduated education, Rutgers College was renamed Rutgers University in 1924. Originally established as a private institution affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church, it is now a secular institution and became New Jersey's leading state university of New Jersey under legislation passed in 1945 and 1956. At present, Rutgers is unique as the only university in the United States that is a colonial chartered college, a land-grant institution, and a state university.