by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. Our methodology places a high weight on things such as post-graduation wages, time to graduate, and student-per-faculty ratio. Post-graduation debt, faculty and staff diversity, and other factors are also taken into account.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Rutgers University - New Brunswick landed the #75 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 10% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. Rutgers New Brunswick received this year's Best Master's Schools badge for its high ranking.
In addition, Rutgers New Brunswick took the #4 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey.
Rutgers New Brunswick was ranked #93 in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking out of the 676 schools that were included in the ranking. So, the school sits firmly among the Top 15% of colleges and universities in the nation when it comes to overall quality. This makes Rutgers New Brunswick a recipient of this year's Best Doctorate Schools badge.
In addition, Rutgers New Brunswick took the #4 spot for Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New Jersey.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 63.4% of the total graduate students at Rutgers New Brunswick are women and 36.6% are men.
About 41.6% of the graduate students who attend Rutgers New Brunswick are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Rutgers New Brunswick is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 15.5% of the graduate student population. For more details on graduate school diversity at the school, check out the chart below. If you click on it, you'll be taken to a page with more details.
The average tuition and fees for graduate students is shown below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $18,180 | $30,900 |
| Fees | $2,315 | $2,315 |
Master's degree recipients from Rutgers New Brunswick earn an average salary of $58,278 during the early years of their career. That's on par with the nationwide average of $58,425.
The average starting salary for graduate students who earn their doctorate degree at Rutgers New Brunswick is $71,884. That's about 4% lower than the countrywide average of $75,260 for all doctorate degree holders.
Get more details about the location of Rutgers University - New Brunswick.
Contact details for Rutgers New Brunswick are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 83 Somerset St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1281 |
| Phone: | 848-445-4636 |
| Website: | https://newbrunswick.rutgers.edu/ |
About 46.5% of the graduate students at Rutgers University - New Brunswick took at least one online class during the 2020-2021 academic year. Approximately 25.3% of grad students took all their classes online during that same time period.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
Just like the master’s degree programs, only programs that had doctorate degrees awarded in 2020-2021 are shown here.
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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