As per 2011 census, 67.02 % population of Moradabad districts lives in rural areas of villages. The total Moradabad district population living in rural areas is 3,198,383 of which males and females are 1,680,022 and 1,518,361 respectively. In rural areas of Moradabad district, sex ratio is 904 females per 1000 males.
The Rowan Gift was the largest to date given to a public college or university in the United States. In 1992, the board of trustees of the college changed the name of GSC to Rowan College (and it became Rowan University in 1997, when it offered its first doctoral program).
The University was first chartered as the state's agricultural school and agricultural experiment station in 1888. The site of the school was originally the Oliver Watson Farm, whose original farmhouse is now a small museum. In 1892, the school became known as the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.