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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public institution of higher education with campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, New Jersey. Its history traces back to 1766 when the Dutch Reformed Church founded it in New Brunswick as Queens College. The name was changed in 1825 to honor Revolutionary War veteran and philanthropist Henry Rutgers. Financial problems led the institution to become the state’s land-grant college (later university) in 1864.