Rutgers University-Newark
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell and non-Pell students graduate at nearly identical rates — a notably small equity gap.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 13,022 borrowers who entered repayment, 149 (1.1%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Rutgers University-Newark
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 6
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
- On campus52
- Public property46
Includes 2 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
- Talbott Apts.1 fireCookingDamage $0-$99
- University Square4 firesCookingDamage $100-$999
- University Square4 firesCookingDamage $0-$99
- University Square4 firesCookingDamage $0-$99
- University Square4 firesCookingDamage $0-$99
- Graduate Student Housing (2)2 firesSmoking materialsDamage $0-$99
- Graduate Student Housing (2)2 firesCookingDamage $0-$99
Data quality: 1 report was later determined unfounded across the reporting period and are excluded from the totals above.
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Rutgers University-Newark vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Rutgers University-Newark selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectRutgers University-Newark | 64% | — | 11,315 | $19,407 | R2 Research |
Rowan University | 67% | 77.7% | 21,026 | $22,185 | R2 Research |
Rutgers University-Camden | 67% | 66.3% | 5,675 | $18,803 | R2 Research |
Montclair State University | 65% | 87.9% | 23,375 | $14,159 | R2 Research |
Morgan State University | 41% | 82.2% | 10,739 | $15,015 | R2 Research |
Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus | 54% | 90.8% | 9,073 | $17,216 | R2 Research |
| Peer group median | 65% | 82.2% | 11,027 | $18,010 |
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