All newly admitted first-year students will take Rutgers University's placement tests. Transfer students entering Rutgers without an equivalent English writing course or math course will also be required to take placement tests. The placement tests are designed to provide information about students' individual skills in the English language and in mathematics. The test results will be used to place students in the courses and sections appropriate to their level of preparation. In some cases, those may be noncredit, developmental courses. Also, testing in a foreign language studied in high school is compulsory for students who will attend the School of Arts of Sciences in New Brunswick and for certain students who will attend colleges in Camden.

Each campus (Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick) will notify their students where the tests will be administered and when they are to take them. Each college schedules the date and time for administering the tests to its students. Test scores will be reported to respective colleges, and the colleges determine the procedures for communicating information about the test results to its students.

If a student has a learning or physical disability that would prevent him or her from taking the tests under standard conditions, contact the Office of Disability Services. Please visit this site for more information: http://disabilityservices.rutgers.edu

If you live over 200 miles from Rutgers, you can make arrangements to complete the testing by asking your guidance counselor (or some other school administrator) if he/she would be willing to proctor the placement tests at your high school or you may arrange to take testing on campus if you anticipate visiting during the spring/summer. To make such special arrangements, please contact April Pagano, Rutgers Placement Testing Administrator, directly at 848-932-8445 or pagano@instlres.rutgers.edu

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