Rutgers University-Newark Student Population

How many students at Rutgers-Newark? For the academic year 2024-2025, a total of 11,315 students have enrolled in Rutgers University-Newark with 7,989 undergraduate and 3,326 graduate students.

By gender, 5,385 male and 5,930 female students are attending the school.

It has much fewer students compared to similar colleges (16,875 students on average - public Research University (high research activity)).

1,183 students are enrolled exclusively, and 2,905 students are enrolled in some online courses.

You can check the student demographics by gender ratio, race/ethnicity, age distribution, and online enrollment.

Student Population by Gender

Rutgers University-Newark has a total of 11,315 enrolled students for the academic year 2024-2025. 7,989 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 3,326 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 5,385 male and 5,930 female students (the male-female ratio is 48:52) are attending the school.

• Enrollment Trends

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 2,773 White, 1,763 Black, and 2,053 Asian students out of a total of 11,315 are attending at Rutgers University-Newark. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the chart below (academic year 2024-2025 data).

Rutgers University-Newark is quite diverse with a diversity index of 79.9% measured by Census Bureau Diversity Index. The institution demonstrates strong racial and ethnic diversity among its student body.

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• Undergraduate
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Student Age Distribution

By age, Rutgers-Newark has 70 students under 18 years old and 19 students over 65 years old. There are 7,530 students under 25 years old, and 3,785 students over 25 years old out of 11,315 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 70 students are younger than 18 and 13 students are older than 65. Rutgers-Newark has 6,720 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,269 students aged 25 and over.

It has 810 graduate students aged under 25 and 2,516 students aged 25 and over.

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• Undergraduate
• Graduate

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially those who want to continue education and work in the field. At Rutgers University-Newark, 1,183 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 2,905 students are enrolled in some online courses.

1,029 students who live in New Jersey or the jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 154 students live in another State or outside of the United States.

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• By Locality

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 7,989 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 722 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 9.04%.635 students have transferred in as full-time status and 87 students transferred in as part-time status.