unitid 186380 · New Brunswick, NJ · public 4-year · city (small)
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Public research university in New Jersey
- founded
- 1766
- enrollment 2023
- 56,943
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- rutgers.edu/
- motto
- “Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra.”
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University or simply Rutgers, is a large public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College and was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey, and one of nine colonial colleges that were chartered before the American Revolution. wikipedia rev 1362531149 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
58%
15th pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
37,751
98th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
28%
undergrads on Pell grants
36th pctl among public 4-years
completion
84%
finish within 150% time
96th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$36,993
97th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$24,406
after aid, aided students
98th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$74,479
after entry, Title IV students
94th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$21,500
68th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $16,343 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k29%
- 30-48k17%
- 48-75k16%
- 75-110k13%
- 110k+26%
- Median family income
- $43,360
- First-generation students
- 35%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $17,929
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.5× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 684 | $131,153 | $21,500 |
| Social Work. | 616 | $64,895 | — |
| Psychology, General. | 585 | $58,473 | $25,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 468 | $101,309 | $22,500 |
| Biology, General. | 432 | $72,842 | $24,161 |
| Public Health. | 361 | $73,195 | $26,000 |
| Human Resources Management and Services. | 357 | $80,550 | $25,750 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 351 | $87,451 | $23,250 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | 333 | $93,912 | $28,000 |
| Medicine. | 332 | $116,296 | — |
| Information Science/Studies. | 323 | $97,712 | $25,000 |
| Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness. | 322 | $70,465 | $26,000 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,037 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (834) · university teacher (326) · politician (251) · writer (186) · lawyer (167) · journalist (85) · historian (84) · actor (78)
Nobel laureates who studied here
- Selman Abraham Waksman Medicine 1952
- Milton Friedman Economics 1976
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Milton Friedman
134 wikis · Public domain
James Gandolfini
92 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Philip Roth
91 wikis · Public domain
Selman Abraham Waksman
71 wikis · Public domain
Sebastian Stan
58 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Roy Scheider
55 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Paul Wesley
55 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Calista Flockhart
53 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garret Hobart
53 wikis · Public domain
Kristin Davis
50 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Carli Lloyd
44 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Jane Krakowski
43 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
John DiMaggio
40 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Junot Díaz
40 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Amiri Baraka
39 wikis · CC BY 2.0
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built 2026-07-17
Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362531149), CC BY-SA 4.0.