Summary
The student-faculty ratio at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick is 15:1, and the school has 38.7 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick include: Psychology, General; Speech Communication and Rhetoric; Economics, General; Biology/Biological Sciences, General; and Political Science and Government, General. The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 91.5 percent.
Faculty & Classes
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Majors
| Five most popular majors for 2011 graduates | |||||||||||
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Academic Programs & Offerings
| Degrees offered | Bachelor's, Master's, Doctorate - research/scholarship | ||||||||||||
| Combined-degree programs | 5-Year B.A. or B.S./M.B.A. Program in Rutgers Business School; 5-Year BA or BS/ Masters of Education Degree; 5-Year BA/BS Program in Liberal Arts & Engineering; 5-Year BS/BS in Bioenviromental Engineering; 5-year accelerated BA-MBA with Rutgers Business School; 8-Year Bachelor/Medical Dual Degree Program with UMDNJ; BA or BS in Science Discipline/MBA; BA/ MLER (School of Management and Labor Relations); BA/M.C.R.P., M.P.H. or M.P.P; BA/Masters of Communitcations and Information Studies; BS in Business Discipline/MBA; BS/Master of Business and Science (MBS); Baccalareate in Business major/Master of Human Resource Management; Pharm.D./MBA program with Rutgers Business School; Pharm.D./Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science; Pharm.D./Ph.D. in Toxicology (with UMDNJ) | ||||||||||||
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Graduation & Retention
| Average freshman retention rate | 92% |
| 4-year graduation rate | 53 |
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* Academic Life details based on 2011 data
