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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Blake | James Hubert | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Robeson | Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Murphy | William Beverly | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mendel | Arthur | 1973 | Doctor of Music | |
| Beal | Orville E. | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gibson | Eleanor Jack | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rauscher, Jr. | Frank Joseph | 1973 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schlatter | Richard | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Zworykin | Vladimir K. | 1972 | Doctor of Science | |
| Johnson | Leonard C. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Nevelson | Louise | 1972 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Levine | William | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bishop | Elizabeth | 1972 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Reese | Gustave | 1972 | Doctor of Music | |
| Allen | Clara L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kreeger | David Lloyd | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Horne | Marilyn | 1971 | Doctor of Music | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Segal | George | 1970 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Luria | Salvador Edward | 1970 | Doctor of Science | |
| Meyerson | Martin | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boyd | Hugh Newell | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jones | Franklin Taylor | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gillespie | John Birks | 1970 | Doctor of Music | |
| Wicker | Thomas Grey | 1970 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Lilley | Robert Dodd | 1970 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Brée | Germaine | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wheeler | John Archibald | 1969 | Doctor of Science | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lewis | Henry | 1969 | Doctor of Music | |
| Buck | Pearl S. | 1969 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
