School of Arts and Sciences (Rutgers University)
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The School of Arts and Sciences is an undergraduate constituent school at the New Brunswick-Piscataway campus of Rutgers University. Established in 2007 from the merger of Rutgers' undergraduate residential colleges, 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 residential colleges, Rutgers College (1766), Douglass College (1918), University College (1945), and Livingston College (1969) maintained disparate standards for admissions, graduations and curriculum. After the merger, Douglass College, an all-female campus founded in 1918 from the New Jersey College for Women will remain only to provide special academic and extra-curricular programs for female students.