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Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after Princeton University), and one of the nine U.S. colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution.