The Department

The only department in the country to offer a full spectrum of graduate training and research in Pharmaceutical
Engineering.

Financial support provided to all PhD students.

Fully established core concentrations in chemical
engineering science, including:
Transport Phenomena
Reaction Engineering
Thermodynamics

Nationally recognized concentrations in:
Biotechnology
Environmental Engineering
Pharmaceutical Engineering
Polymers and Biomaterials Engineering

NIH-funded Biotechnology Training Program is one of only
20 in the U.S.

Department ranks near the top in number of faculty
specializing in polymers research.

$4 million per year in research funding

$2 million spent on renovations in the past year

$6 million spent on renovations in the past 8 years

$1 million in capital equipment expenditures in the past
24 months.

In the heart of one of the richest industrial and R&D
regions in the U.S.

Regional proximity facilitates internships and research
collaborations with industry during graduate school.

On-campus recruiting by DuPont, Exxon, Merck, Mobil,Johnson & Johnson, etc.

Graduates well-placed in both industry and academia.

Emphasis on development of professional skills.

Secluded campus 5 minutes from downtown New
Brunswick, with easy access to New York, Philadelphia,
Boston and Washington, DC.

Excellent library and computing resources.

Five minutes walk across campus to the Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School, Center for Advanced
Biotechnology and Medicine, School of Pharmacy . . .

State-of-the-art Environmental and Agricultural Sciences
facilities located on nearby Cook Campus.

Culturally diverse students and faculty.

Over 40% women in program.

Receptive to students with non-ChemE backgrounds.

Creative solutions to individual circumstances.

The University

Founded in 1766, Rutgers is the nation’s eighth oldest
institution of higher learning – following Harvard, Yale, U.
Pennsylvania, U. Delaware, Princeton, Columbia, and
Brown.

Rutgers belongs to the prestigious Association of American
Universities (AAU) – the 62 leading North American
institutions recognized for the quality and scope of their
research and educational programs.

Rutgers ranks among the top 10 AAU institutions in number of faculty elected to the national academies, with 34.r

Research achievements of Rutgers faculty include:
The development of single-stranded DNA
The discovery of the oldest known stone tools
Pioneering health-related uses of virtual reality
technology

Rutgers ranks in the top three schools in terms of royalties earned on technologies developed at the University.

Rutgers’ campuses reflect NJ’s real-world ethnic diversity,
with 18 percent minority enrollment and students
representing more than 100 foreign countries.