Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences | Rutgers-New Brunswick

The Transition from Cook to SEBS

The Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) is a new name for what you may have known as Cook College.

Our new name was adopted to better describe who we are and what we do, and is just one component of a series of University-wide improvements aimed to enhance and simplify the educational experience for all of our students. Every effort is being made to ensure that our students maximize their university experience.

What does this mean for SEBS students?

  • All of the advantages that come from attending one of the top-ranked public universities nationwide
  • Professional and pre-professional curricula that cover the biological spectrum, from organisms to ecosystems, with an equal emphasis on the social and human dimensions of the sciences
  • Opportunities for joint degrees with several Rutgers graduate and professional programs and accelerated health professions programs, including joint degrees with medical, dental, and physician assistant programs offered through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
  • "First choice" to live on the George H. Cook Campus, but the opportunity to live in any of four other residential campus communities-Busch Campus, College Avenue Campus, Douglass Campus, and Livingston Campus
  • Students living off campus may affiliate with the activities of the residential campus community of their choice
  • Laboratory-, field-, service-, and community-based experiential learning as an integral part of the undergraduate and graduate curricula and faculty and staff committed to linking learning in the classroom and laboratory with student and residence life programming

Our transformation process will not happen overnight. Rather, you will see gradual changes throughout campus. Our academic, student services, and admissions web pages will be revised as new policies and practices are implemented, so please check back with us often. If you would like to learn more about these anticipated changes and the history of the Transforming Undergraduate Education initiative, you can find more information here.

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