Student Population at Rutgers University-New Brunswick

2023 Student Population	Undergraduate	Graduate
50,637	36,344	14,293

For the academic year 2022-2023, total of 50,637 students have enrolled in Rutgers University-New Brunswick with 36,344 undergraduate and 14,293 graduate students.

By gender, 23,354 male and 27,283 female students are attending the school.

It has significantly more students compared to similar colleges (33,713 students in average - public Research University (very high research activity)).

3,758 students are enrolled exclusively, and 19,667 students are enrolled in some online courses.

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

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Student Population by Gender

Rutgers University-New Brunswick has a total of 50,637 enrolled students for the academic year 2022-2023. 36,344 students have enrolled in undergraduate programs and 14,293 students joined graduate programs.

By gender, 23,354 male and 27,283 female students (the male-female ratio is 46:54) are attending the school. The gender distribution is based on the 2022-2023 data.

Total Student Enrolled By Gender
	Total	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total	50,637	36,344	14,293
Men	23,354	18,156	5,198
Women	27,283	18,188	9,095

Student Distribution by Race/Ethnicity

By race/ethnicity, 17,098 White, 3,939 Black, and 14,185 Asian students out of a total of 50,637 are attending at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Comprehensive enrollment statistic data by race/ethnicity is shown in the next chart (Academic year 2022-2023 data).

All Students

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Total)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	34	14	20
Asian	14,185	6,918	7,267
Black	3,939	1,371	2,568
Hispanic	7,291	2,909	4,382
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	40	22	18
White	17,098	7,863	9,235
Two or more races	1,760	792	968
Race Unknown	1,072	469	603

Undergraduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Undergraduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	29	13	16
Asian	11,792	6,070	5,722
Black	2,471	987	1,484
Hispanic	5,472	2,389	3,083
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	33	20	13
White	11,772	6,050	5,722
Two or more races	1,302	630	672
Race Unknown	756	379	377

Graduate

Race/Ethnicity Distribution (Graduate)
Race	Total	Men	Women
American Indian or Native American	5	1	4
Asian	2,393	848	1,545
Black	1,468	384	1,084
Hispanic	1,819	520	1,299
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders	7	2	5
White	5,326	1,813	3,513
Two or more races	458	162	296
Race Unknown	316	90	226

Student Age Distribution

By age, Rutgers has 94 students under 18 years old and 39 students over 65 years old. There are 38,753 students under 25 years old, and 11,884 students over 25 years old out of 50,637 total students.

In undergraduate programs, 94 students are younger than 18 and 7 students are older than 65. Rutgers has 34,476 undergraduate students aged under 25 and 1,868 students aged 25 and over.

It has 4,277 graduate students aged under 25 and 10,016 students aged 25 and over.

All Students

Student Age Distribution (Total)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	94	39	55
18-19	13,044	6,722	6,322
20-21	15,322	7,793	7,529
22-24	10,293	5,330	4,963
25-29	6,290	3,700	2,590
30-34	2,498	1,529	969
35-39	1,274	854	420
40-49	1,222	877	345
50-64	561	413	148
Over 65	39	26	13

Undergraduate

Student Age Distribution (Undergraduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women
Under 18	94	39	55
18-19	13,044	6,722	6,322
20-21	15,200	7,716	7,484
22-24	6,138	2,707	3,431
25-29	1,072	520	552
30-34	374	199	175
35-39	164	97	67
40-49	168	120	48
50-64	83	63	20
Over 65	7	5	2

Graduate

Student Age Distribution (Graduate)
Age	Total	Men	Women

Online Student Enrollment

Distance learning, also called online education, is very attractive to students, especially who want to continue education and work in field. At Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 3,758 students are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 19,667 students are enrolled in some online courses.

2,910 students lived in New Jersey or jurisdiction in which the school is located are enrolled exclusively in online courses and 848 students live in other State or outside of the United States.

Online Student Population
	All Students	Enrolled Exclusively Online Courses	Enrolled in Some Online Courses
All Students	50,637	3,758	19,667
Undergraduate	36,344	773	17,644
Graduate	14,293	2,985	2,023

Online Student Population by Locality
	New Jersey Residents	Other States in U.S.	Outside of U.S.
All Students	2,910	699	149
Undergraduate	650	61	62
Graduate	2,260	638	87

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)

Among 36,344 enrolled in undergraduate programs, 2,144 students have transferred-in from other institutions. The percentage of transfer-in students is 5.90%.2,040 students have transferred in as full-time status and 104 students transferred in as part-time status.

Transfer-in Students (Undergraduate)
	Number of Students
Regular Full-time	32,627
Transfer-in Full-time	2,040
Regular Part-time	1,573
Transfer-in Part-time	104

Student Population at Rutgers University-New Brunswick

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