Rutgers Climbs To No. 56 In U.S. News Ranking Of Best Colleges

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — On Monday morning, US News & World Report issued its annual Best Colleges rankings and Rutgers University climbed 13 places this year, to number 56 from number 69.

The Rutgers–New Brunswick campus is also fourth among the public Big Ten schools (tied with Ohio State and Purdue, and one ahead of Penn State) and 17th among public universities in the nation. For the 2018-19 school year, Rutgers has a $31,282 out-of-state tuition and $14,974 in state. The entire list can be found here: https://www.usnews.com/best-co...

The top three in the list of Best Colleges 2018 are:

Princeton (#1), Harvard (#2) with Columbia, MIT, University of Chicago and Yale all tied for #3.

Writes U.S. News & World Report:

Rutgers University—New Brunswick is a public institution that was founded in 1766. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 35,641, its setting is city, and the campus size is 2,685 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Rutgers University—New Brunswick's ranking in the 2019 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 56. Its in-state tuition and fees are $14,974 (2018-19); out-of-state tuition and fees are $31,282 (2018-19).

Rutgers University—New Brunswick, the flagship campus of New Jersey's state university, is split into five minicampuses, each with a unique setting and identity, student center and dining options. Freshmen are not required to live on campus. Students can join more than 400 student clubs and organizations, including more than 80 fraternities and sororities. The Rutgers Scarlet Knights compete in the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference. Among its graduate offerings, Rutgers has a highly ranked Graduate School of Education. The university also awards one of the highest numbers of doctorate degrees a year among U.S. schools. As a public research university, Rutgers is home to unique institutions such as the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, where students take hands-on courses in the sciences and work on community projects.

Is Rutgers part of the Big Ten?
After more than two decades in the Big East conference, Rutgers joined the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference in 2014, where it competes with the University of Maryland—College Park, University of Iowa and other schools. It offers football, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf, wrestling, track and field, and a host of other sports programs. The women’s basketball team won the WNIT championship in 2014, and the men’s track team won its first Big East Outdoor Championship in 2005.

It is harder to get accepted into Rutgers than other universities. Rutgers had a 57 percent acceptance rate for the fall of 2016, according to U.S. News data. The university admits prospective students through a rolling admissions process.

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