by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual began publishing its yearly rankings to help students identify graduate schools that put a high emphasis on educational quality as well as helping students succeed. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., Rutgers University - Newark landed the #162 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list. This rank is quite an honor since it puts the school in the Top 15% of the country for overall quality. As a result, Rutgers Newark is a recipient of this year's Best Master's Schools badge.
In addition, Rutgers Newark took the #6 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in New Jersey.
Of the 676 institutions of higher learning that were examined in the 2024 Best Doctorate Schools in the United States ranking, Rutgers Newark came in at #392.
For the Best Doctorate Degree Schools in New Jersey, Rutgers Newark came in at #14.
The total graduate student population at Rutgers Newark is made up of 50.0% women and 50.0% men. Note that these percentages may differ for certain degree programs.
About 41.1% of the graduate students who attend Rutgers Newark are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Rutgers Newark is popular with people from outside the United States, too. International students make up 18.5% of the graduate student population. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $18,168 | $30,888 |
| Fees | $2,298 | $2,298 |
The average early-career salary for master's degree recipients from Rutgers Newark is $54,022. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 8% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Doctorate degree recipients from Rutgers Newark earn an average salary of $91,062 during the early years of their career. That's good news for those graduates since it is 21% higher than the national average of $75,260.
Get more details about the location of Rutgers University - Newark.
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/ |
Around 45.1% of Rutgers Newark graduate students took at least one course online during the 2020-2021 academic year. For that same period, 24.0% of grad students took all of their classes online.
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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