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.
As long as the kids are happy, and do well, that matters most. My well to do friend offered to lease his daughters Mercedes Benz sedans if they chose Rutgers, because he would come out ahead financially. They chose to go out of state, to Illinois and Penn State. Did very well, and got terrific jobs out of college. One lives in Jersey City, one lives in Philly.
If RU accepts more in state students they will need to decrease out of state acceptance.
No matter what happens, New Jersey people will always complain.
My father said he would buy me a car if I chose to go to the local state university. But he was half-hearted about it. The school in question, although now excellent, was pretty uneven in those days.
The number of 18 year olds in the United States is shrinking. Flagship state schools, such as Rutgers New Brunswick, are winning market share at the expense of regional schools.
I can't speak to Newark. I can tell you that Rutgers' central administration regards the Camden campus mostly as a way to show its "concern" about urban issues. The place is a 75-minute drive from New Brunswick and so New Brunswick doesn't feel invested in the place. Efforts by Camden chancellors to get the central administration to invest haven't borne much fruit.
This is very much lost on most of our generation and above ….
And that is precisely why Rutgers needs to stop treating RU Camden and RU Newark as stepchildren (at best).