Mason Gross School of the Arts

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Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey named for Mason W. Gross, the sixteenth president of Rutgers. Mason Gross is a professional school that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Theater Arts and Visual Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Fine Arts in Theater Arts and Visual Arts, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Diploma in Music, and MA and Ph.D. in composition, theory, and musicology.

Mason Gross was founded in 1975 as a school of the fine and performing arts within Rutgers and in 1976 became a separate degree-granting institution from the other Undergraduate colleges.

All fine arts departments at the other Rutgers colleges were merged into Mason Gross in 1981 and as of 2005 has expanded to ten buildings including the Livingston Theater, visual arts studios at the Kilmer campus, and the Downtown Arts Building in the center of New Brunswick. The buildings are all situated within Rutgers' Douglass College campus with the exception of the Civic Square Building (located in downtown New Brunswick) and the sculpture facilities (located on the Livingston campus).

The Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library houses approximately 15,000 recordings and 30,000 monographs and scores, serving as a research and reference library at all levels.

With approximately 85 full-time faculty, 1000 undergraduate students, and 250 graduate students in dance, music, theater arts, and visual arts, Mason Gross was ranked the 19th most selective school/college in the nation in a recent Kaplan/Newsweek survey. On average, the school accepts only 22% of its applicants per year.

One notable alumnus is mime Bill Bowers.

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