Original: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is a colonial chartered college (1766), a land-grant institution (1864), and a state university (1945\/1956).
Simplified: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University), is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766 and is the eighth-oldest college in the United States.