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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roe | Robert A. | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Roebling | Mary Gindhart | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rohrer | Heinrick | 1987 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rollins | Sonny | 2009 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Rossi | Alice S. | 1975 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roth | Philip | 1987 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Rubinstein | Arthur | 1963 | Doctor of Music | |
| Rukeyser | Muriel | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sachar | Libby Bernstein | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sakharov | Andrei Dmitrievich | 1981 | Doctor of Science | |
| Salisbury | Harrison Evans | 1983 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sang | Philip David | 1961 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sato | Gordon Hisashi | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schaaf | Royal Albert | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schein | Philip S. | 2006 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schimmel | Herbert D. | 2003 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schlatter | Richard | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schlesinger, Jr. | Arthur M. | 1982 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Schuller | Gunther | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Schulman | Dan | 2018 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Schwartz | Anna Jacobson | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Eugenie C. | 2007 | Doctor of Science | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scullion | Sister Mary | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sebrell, Jr. | William Henry | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Segal | George | 1970 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Seligmann | Peter A. | 2003 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sellars | Richard Beverland | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sessions | Roger | 1962 | Doctor of Music | |
| Shahn | Ben | 1964 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Shalala | Donna E. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shepard | Roger Newland | 1992 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shockley | William B. | 1956 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shorter | Wayne | 2019 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Showalter | Elaine | 2001 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Singer | Wolf | 2008 | Doctor of Science | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smeal | Eleanor Cutri | 2010 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smiley | Tavis | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
