But that’s why there are tons of NJ kids at other schools (out of state) but not a lot of out of state kids at Rutgers. They don’t keep kids and don’t attract the out of state kids.
Rutgers has no issues filling its class. Last year was 10,630 kids. That’s up from 9,900 from the previous year.
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Rutgers' out of state tuition is less than U. Delaware, Penn State's or U. Maryland's, just to take some local examples.
I do think there can be legitimate reasons to send out-of-state a kid who can get into Rutgers. Some kids can get into Ivies or near-Ivies. Some kids need a smaller school. Some kids are more comfortable at a school with a religious affiliation. Some kids want to re-locate permanently, say, to the south or southwest. But it's difficult for me to see many situations in which it makes sense to send a kid to an out-of-state school that is Rutgers' size and no better.
If a kid wants to relocate it is a good option to select a school in the state they want to live in. Those schools will have ties to internships that can help kick off their career.
For our second kid, got the same deal our older kid got. Admission to the Honors College and a Presidential scholarship--Rutgers would have been very inexpensive- probably about $40-50K total. But the program kid 2 was admitted to was to the College of Pharmacy. Also, RU did not have the program features for the chosen major. Chose a very small, not very prestigious private college that has an excellent program for the major and guaranteed admission to the Master's professional phase. Kid has absolutely thrived in the smaller environment and we are thrilled with the school in many ways that Rutgers does not thrill us. Not a knock on Rutgers- just that every kid is different, and it is a personal choice of each kid and what their parents can afford and/or are willing to spend for education. No need for the Rutgers lovers to sneer or criticize decisions of other parents/kids.
Yield rate going up means acceptance rate goes down. Good for the school, but is it good for more families ?congrats to all, I hear Rutgers is an outstanding schoolthose that talked yield rate are right, we need to get that up!
OSU is huge! my son's friend goes there and wants to transfer as it's just too big for him.
absolutely it is
Sure there are other options, public and private. But there’s a tipping point where selectivity undermines public good. Especially in a state without another big public u to go to instead. Arizona-ASU, Indiana-Purdue, Colorado, Penn, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, etc all have second or third Carnegie R1 university alternate options and most of the ones that don’t have small populations.
we are nowhere near any tipping at Rutgers in fact, the school needs to be more selective.
Can’t afford to offer top 5% in NJ free tuition. There are a lot of kids in NJ. They offer top 500 for honors college.
Unless the state doubles its support for RU. Instead of $1B raise it to $2B. And if the state does that, half of the posters here would complain about tax payer money.
Rutgers New Brunswick doesn't have trouble filling its class. Rutgers Newark and especially Rutgers Camden face major enrollment challenges.
