Rutgers: Office of Information Technology - Creating an OIT Account and NetID: Step by Step

Creating an OIT Account and NetID: Step by Step

This document gives quick instructions for creating an account and NetID at Rutgers. The username you choose during this process will serve as your "NetID". The NetID is used for many processes on campus, including accessing the student computing labs, the myRutgers portal, your Rutgers email address, Sakai, WebCT, Blackboard, and transcript requests.

Have you read the Rutgers University Acceptable Use policies? These describe what kinds of things are allowed and not allowed when using OIT computing facilities. If you haven't read them yet, please do so now. You are responsible for understanding and following all policies at Rutgers.

If you said yes to all of these questions, then you're ready to use the account creation web page for your system.

NOTE: In the following web forms, please make sure you choose the proper Account Type in the drop down menu normally right above the space for your name and SSN. For most of you, the proper type is Faculty, Staff, or one of the Student categories. On some systems, Faculty and Staff are combined as Facstaff.

New students: New students who will be starting in the next semester will use account type "admit coming" or "new student", depending upon the campus.

Summer students: If you are taking a summer course, but aren't enrolled in Rutgers in any other way, you can create an account for the summer. You will use account type "Summer student".

Camden

students: clam
faculty and staff: crab

For help creating accounts in Camden, you may call the help desk at 856-225-6274, help@camden.rutgers.edu
Newark

students: pegasus
faculty and staff: andromeda

For help creating accounts in Newark, you may call the help desk at 973-353-5083, help@newark.rutgers.edu
New Brunswick

students: eden
faculty and staff: rci

For help creating accounts in New Brunswick, you may call the help desk at 732-445-HELP, help@nbcs.rutgers.edu.

Some people prefer to go to one of the OIT student computer labs. There you can pick up printed documents, and there are staff who can help you if you run into trouble. If you want to go to one of the labs please see this for information on how to find one for your campus.

Other Accounts: Click here for other types of accounts that are available for specific purposes such as Guest accounts, new faculty/staff accounts if not in payroll, retiree, recent graduate, department or student organizations, and limited NetID only.