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The '''School of Arts and Sciences''' is an [[undergraduate education|undergraduate]] constituent school at the [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]]-[[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]] area campus of [[Rutgers University]]. Established in 2007 from the merger of Rutgers' undergraduate liberal arts colleges and the non-student college known as the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," the School of Arts and Sciences was implemented to centralize and consolidate undergraduate education at the university, focusing on providing one set of admissions and graduation requirements and imposing a universal core [[curriculum]].

Previously, the undergraduate colleges offering liberal arts majors, '''[[Rutgers College]]''' (founded 1766), '''[[Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences|Cook College]]''' (founded 1862), '''[[Douglass Residential College (Rutgers University)|Douglass College]]''' (founded 1918), '''[[University College (Rutgers University) College|University College]]''' (founded 1945), and '''[[Livingston College]]''' (founded 1969) maintained disparate standards for admission, graduation and curriculum.

The faculty of these various colleges (including the liberal arts faculty of Cook College) had already been merged in 1982 into the "Faculty of Arts and Sciences," a college in which students could not enroll. Until 2007, undergraduates enrolling in liberal-arts classes shared the faculty of this school. Classes during this period could be held on any of the five campuses regardless of the school in which the student was enrolled. Students of Livingston, Douglass, and Cook colleges generally used residence and dining halls on their respective campus (Livingston [formerly "Kilmer"], Douglass, or Cook Campus). Administration and student center facilities of those colleges were respectively located as well. Rutgers College and University College administrations were located on the College Avenue campus. Most Rutgers College students were housed either on the [[College Avenue Campus]] or Busch Campus.

From 1982- to 2007, Rutgers, Cook, Douglass, and Livingston colleges also served as the choices of residential colleges with which students from professional colleges could affiliate, such as the schools of pharmacy and engineering. Presently, The School of Arts and Science is the only residential option at the New Brunswick-Piscataway area campus. Students of the School of Arts and Sciences and affiliating students may be housed on any of the five campuses, althoughin dormitoriesNew exclusivelyBrunswick-Piscataway. forWomen-only thehousing useis ofavailable womenat are still maintained onthe [[Douglass Campus for those who opt for thatResidential choiceCollege]].

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