Rutgers Facts

History

Rutgers holds the unique distinction of ranking among both the oldest and newest institutions of higher education.

Chartered as Queen’s College on November 10, 1766, Rutgers was the eighth university established in the country.
The Rutgers Alumni Association, founded in 1831, is one of the oldest continuously operating alumni associations in the U.S.
The Rutgers Scientific School, renamed Cook College, became the state’s land grant college in 1864.
Founded in 1869, the Daily Targum is the oldest continuously published college newspaper in the country.
Rutgers hosted the first intercollegiate football game, defeating Princeton in 1869.
Founded in 1918, Douglass College is the largest women’s college in the U.S.
Rutgers is one of the newest state universities in the nation. It was designated the State University of New Jersey in 1945 and again in 1956.
The Newark campus was incorporated into Rutgers in 1946; the Camden campus was incorporated into the university in 1950.
In 1989, Rutgers became the 58^th member of the Association of American Universities, which comprises 61 of the top research universities in North America.

The University

Rutgers is the state’s flagship institution of higher education with 29 degree-granting colleges and schools on campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick, and extension offices and activities in all 21 counties.

Rutgers has a three-fold mission of teaching and learning, research and discovery, and community service and engagement.
Through 175 academic departments, Rutgers offers over 100 bachelors, 100 masters, and 70 doctoral and professional degree programs.
The university comprises 6,407 acres, 863 buildings, and 18 branch libraries.
Rutgers confers approximately 10,000 degrees annually.
The university has over 130 specialized research centers, bureaus, and institutes.
The $100 million RUNet program links 500 academic and residential buildings, and 97% of the residential students on three campuses in a high-speed data, video and voice network.
Rutgers faculty, students, and staff comprise a networked community of more than 60,000 – the equivalent of a small city.
Rutgers ranks 9^th among U.S. universities in supercomputing systems.
The National Research Council ranks 16 Rutgers doctoral programs among the top third nationally.
Rutgers continuing education programs enroll more than 35,000 annually.
There are more than 310,000 Rutgers alumni; approximately 60% reside in New Jersey.

Student Body

Total enrollment is approximately 50,000; more than 38,000 are undergraduates.
For the class that entered in the Fall 2000, Rutgers received 28,684 applications for undergraduate admission, exceeding the FY99 all-time high by more than 2,000. University-wide applications for fall 2001, including graduate students and transfers, totaled 42,152.
Half of Rutgers students rank in the top 20% of their high school graduating class.
Sixty percent of Rutgers classes have fewer than 30 students.
Eighty-six percent of Rutgers students are from the state of New Jersey.
Minority students comprise 32% of the total student body, 6^th among public AAU institutions.
U.S. News & World Report has rated Rutgers-Newark as the most diverse campus among national universities for the past four years.
First-year minority enrollment grew by 40% and Rutgers ranks 6^th among public AAU institutions in baccalaureate degrees granted to minorities
Rutgers ranks second nationally in the number of bachelor’s degrees conferred upon African-Americans by a predominantly non-minority school.
Since 1989, more than 12,000 students have contributed more than 678,000 hours of service valued at $3.75 million through the Rutgers Citizenship and Service Education program.
During fiscal year 2000, 65% of undergraduates received some form of financial assistance.
Undergraduates receive more than $184 million in federal and state grants, loans, work-study jobs, and university scholarships.

The Faculty

Of Rutgers more than 2,500 full-time faculty; 98% hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree.

Student to faculty ratio across the university is 14-1.

During the last decade, Rutgers memberships in National Academies rose from 19 to 26.

Rutgers is 9^th among public AAU institutions in full-time minority faculty; ranks 8^th in the percentage of female faculty and 3^rd in the percentage of African American faculty.

Rutgers faculty have created 48 spinoff companies, including 35 in New Jersey.

Eighty-one percent of the Rutgers faculty’s proposals for external research and training grants and contracts were funded.

Financial Data

The Rutgers budget is approximately $1.37 billion annually.
Annual state appropriations (FY01, $437 million) provide 31.8% of operating funds.
Student tuition and fees was $318 million, approximately 23% of operating funds.
Each year, approximately 40,000 individuals, corporations, and foundations provide Rutgers with financial support to help operate and improve the state-supported university.
Private giving increased from $27.6 million in 1991 to $86.8 million in fiscal 2002.
During the past eleven years, the total revenue from external research and sponsored programs has more than doubled -- from $96 million in 1990 to $237.8 million in 2002.
Rutgers ranks 10^th among public AAU institutions in the percentage increase in National Science Foundation funding.
During the past six years, Rutgers has redirected more than $24 million in administrative savings to 125 priority projects that helped gain more than $275 million in external funding.