Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name |
Year |
Degree | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peyre | Henri Maurice | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Nelson | Oswald George | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Threlkeld | Curtis Hugh | 1957 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kertes | Ferdinand | 1957 | Doctor of Science | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McDonough | Roger Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hardt | Robert Andrew | 1956 | Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Cameron | Donald Forrester | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Felmly | Lloyd McPherson | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Thomson | Virgil | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Johnson | Thomas Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quimby | Edith Hinkley | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Vandervilt | Arthur | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mumford | Lawrence Quincy | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burton | Glenn Willard | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Komp | William H.W. | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Young | Donald Ramsey | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Moore | Marianne Craig | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Newmark | Nathan Mortimore | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Benson | Ezra Taft | 1955 | Doctor of Science | |
| Friend, Jr. | Albert Mathias | 1955 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Kenyon | Lee John | 1955 | Master of Arts | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Snedeker | Chester Wesley | 1955 | Master of Arts |