by our College Data Analytics Team
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Rutgers University - Newark was awarded 70 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is business administration & management.
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Rutgers Newark is ranked #164 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Rutgers Newark held the #263 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Rutgers Newark is also ranked #4 out of 45 schools in New Jersey.
The acceptance rate at Rutgers University - Newark is 74%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that Rutgers Newark is a good fit for you.
The student to faculty ratio at Rutgers University - Newark is about average at 13 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Rutgers University - Newark is 61%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Rutgers University - Newark has a freshmen retention rate of 82%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At Rutgers Newark this rate is 34%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 9,118 undergraduates at Rutgers Newark with 7,974 being full-time and 1,144 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $11,687 | $14,208 | $18,266 | $24,584 | $25,515 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Rutgers Newark, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Rutgers Newark, approximately 26% of students took out student loans averaging $6,475 a year. That adds up to $25,900 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Rutgers Newark are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 249 University Avenue, Blumenthal Hall, Newark, NJ 07102 |
| Phone: | 973-353-1766 |
| Website: | https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 894 | $58,896 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 347 | $68,338 |
| Accounting | 292 | $68,141 |
| General Biology | 259 | $32,024 |
| General Psychology | 234 | $31,280 |
| Law | 225 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 212 | $34,611 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 154 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 140 | $80,448 |
| Public Administration | 134 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 3,515 students took at least one online class at Rutgers University - Newark. This is a decrease from the 5,882 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 3,515 | 946 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,882 | 1,322 |
| 2020-2021 | 12,621 | 11,626 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,814 | 616 |
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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