Construction on Rutgers Business School Building Begins New Era of Professional Studies

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Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick, Dean Glenn R. Shafer, Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick

11:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13 

94 Rockafeller Road at Avenue E, Rutgers’ Livingston Campus, Piscataway 

The state-of-the-art, 155,800-square-foot building will provide much needed space to accommodate significant program expansion and increased interest by students in earning a business degree. The facility will be designed by TEN Arquitectos, a firm of international stature, founded by Enrique Norten. Occupancy is anticipated in fall 2013.

Construction for the $85 million project is supported by a $10 million gift from an anonymous donor that was part of a $13 million gift to the university’s $1 billion “Our Rutgers, Our Future” campaign. At the time, the gift was the largest private donation in Rutgers’ history. The anonymous donor has since pledged an additional $27 million.

Rutgers Business School has been accredited since 1941 by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – a distinction that represents the hallmark of excellence in management education. Today, RBS educates more than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students at two main campuses in New Jersey, as well as six satellite locations in the state, China and Singapore. Steeped in academic excellence, with a distinguished faculty and a corps of over 33,000 successful alumni, Rutgers Business School is highly ranked by the Financial Times, Bloomberg Business Week and The Wall Street Journal.