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Numbers, Statistics & Stories to Tell

Numbers, Statistics & Stories to Tell

Facts & Figures

How many students attend Rutgers? What percentage of students receive financial aid? Rutgers is such a diverse and multinational place, where do all those students come from? Answers to these and countless other intriguing questions can be found among a variety of resources.

 
2012–2013 Undergraduate Tuition

In-State: $10,356
Out-of-State: $23,676

Undergraduate Tuition, Fees, Room & Board

Rutgers Fact Book

Rutgers is a big place with many stories to tell. The Rutgers Fact Book is a great place to see the Rutgers story summarized through statistics and other data. The university’s Dashboard Indicators, found on the Fact Book page, aid in the assessment of the university’s performance in key strategic areas.

Small Brochure, Many Great Things

Great things to know about Rutgers

Many great things make Rutgers a distinctive and highly respected institution in New Jersey, the Northeast, the nation, and the world. An at-a-glance brochure hits the highlights. Learn more.

Did You Know?

Thomas Edison in his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory

Rutgers Researchers Are the Archivists for the Thomas Edison Papers

The archives that chronicle the extraordinary life and achievements of Thomas Alva Edison are available to scholars and the public alike because of the Rutgers-led Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, one of the most ambitious editing projects ever undertaken by an American university. The extensive collection of Edison’s papers—approximately 5 million pages in all—is preserved at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey.

Our Students

  • More than 58,000 students from all 50 states and more than 125 countries
  • 43,380 undergraduates and 14,800 graduate students
  • 87% of all students are New Jersey residents and 13% are from out of state
  • Full-time students: 50% men and 50% women
  • Rutgers is diverse. The students of Rutgers–Newark have made that campus the nation’s “most diverse” for 15 years running in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of America’s Best Colleges
  • More than half the members of the incoming class identify themselves as non-Caucasian
  • Among peer institutions (public universities in the Association of American Universities), Rutgers ranks 2nd in the percentage of degrees earned by African Americans, 8th for Asians, and 11th for Latinos
  • More than 40 percent of entering undergraduates rank in the top 10 percent of their high school class
  • Mean SAT (Math/Verbal/Writing): 1786
  • 81% of undergraduates receive some form of financial aid
  • Average annual undergraduate financial aid award is $14,280
  • 13,400+ Rutgers students received degrees in May 2012

Our Faculty and Staff

  • 6,714 full- and part-time faculty across all campuses
  • 7,124 full- and part-time staff members across all campuses
  • 99% of faculty hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree
  • Among peer public institutions (public universities in the Association of American Universities), Rutgers is 4th in the nation for full-time female faculty, 14th in the nation for full-time African-American faculty, and 15th in the nation for full-time total minority faculty
  • Faculty include an Abel Prize winner, Guggenheim Fellows, MacArthur “Genius Award” Fellows, Pulitzer Prize winners, National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology recipients, a National Endowment for the Arts “Jazz Master,” and many more
  • 54 Rutgers faculty are in the National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Rutgers has one of the top three philosophy faculties in the English-speaking world, along with NYU and Oxford

Our Alumni

  • About 408,000 alumni live in all 50 states and on six continents
  • More than 200,000 alumni live in New Jersey
  • Rutgers alumni make a difference every day and lead in every field imaginable. Some notable alumni include Smith College President Carol Tecla Christ, best-selling novelist Janet Evanovich, Ford Motor Company president for the Americas Mark Fields, actor James Gandolfini, and NBA commissioner David Stern.
  • Rutgers ranks 6th in the nation for value delivered to graduates based on median salaries three years and 15 years after graduation in SmartMoney’s survey of college costs versus salaries earned by alumni of 50 public and private institutions.

Our Academics

  • 3 campuses: New Brunswick, Newark, Camden
  • 28 schools and colleges, including New Jersey’s foremost pharmacy school
  • More than 100 undergraduate majors
  • More than 180 graduate programs
  • Rutgers is in the top 6% of American universities awarding the most doctorates annually
  • 1-to-14 faculty-to-student ratio
  • On average, only 13% of classes have more than 50 students
  • Rutgers students earned fellowships, grants, and awards from these and other prestigious academic organizations: American Association of University Women • American Council of Learned Societies/Mellon • American Meteorological Society • British Research Council • Fulbright • Gates Cambridge • George Mitchell Scholarship Program • Goldwater • Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation • Japanese Education Ministry • Leakey Foundation • Lindau Meeting of Nobelists • Metropolitan Museum of Art • NASA • National Institutes of Health • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • National Science Foundation •  New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research • New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research • Smithsonian Institution • U.S. Department of Defense • U.S. Department of Energy • U.S. Department of State • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Our Research

  • Only public New Jersey university in the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group comprising North America’s 62 leading research universities. Rutgers and Princeton are New Jersey’s only AAU members.
  • Rutgers is a research-intensive university, with 180 research centers and institutes
  • Home to New Jersey’s most extensive and diversified network of research laboratories
  • Rutgers was awarded $434 million in new research grants and contracts in FY 2010
  • 60 percent of Rutgers undergraduates engage in original research
  • Rutgers has more than 500 active U.S. patents and was granted 25 patents in 2011 alone

Our Campuses

  • New Brunswick Campus: 31,268 undergraduates; 8,682 graduate students; 2,681 acres; 658 buildings
  • Newark Campus: 7,465 undergraduates; 4,339 graduate students; 40 acres; 34 buildings
  • Camden Campus: 4,653 undergraduates; 1,775 graduate students; 31 acres; 37 buildings
  • 16,429 residence hall beds universitywide
  • 27 dining facilities universitywide
  • More than 4.7 million meals served annually universitywide