Rutgers-Camden acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

With an acceptance rate near 66%, Rutgers-Camden is a moderately selective public university in New Jersey. Because it admits more applicants than it rejects, admission turns on the strength of your whole profile rather than any one number.

Use this page to see what Rutgers-Camden weighs, where it ranks among New Jersey schools, and how a profile like yours is likely to land. Admitted students post a 75th-percentile SAT around 1180, a useful checkpoint for where your scores sit, though it is a reference range and not a cutoff.

What are my chances at Rutgers-Camden with a 3.1 GPA and a 1180 SAT?

About 87% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1180 SAT, the middle of Rutgers-Camden's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1300 SAT comes out near 97%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

Estimates, not guarantees. Get yours with your real courses and activities. Assistants and developers can fetch this table from the free API: /api/v1/colleges/rutgers-camden.

Here is how to get into Rutgers-Camden, built from what its admitted class actually looks like and what the school says it weighs.

For the fall 2023 entering class, Rutgers-Camden received 11,951 applications and admitted 9,292, an acceptance rate of 77.8%. 580 enrolled. Only about 6% of admitted students enrolled, so the school admits several students for every seat it expects to fill, which is why its acceptance rate reads higher than its selectivity feels. Rutgers-Camden enrolls about 3,753 undergraduates in total, 60% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 12 to 1.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS 2023 admissions and enrollment.

The middle 50% of admitted students at Rutgers-Camden scored between 1050 and 1300 on the SAT (average 1178). On the ACT the middle 50% runs from 19 to 25. A score above 1300 puts you in the top quarter of admits and turns the test into an asset; a score below 1050 puts you in the bottom quarter, where the rest of the application has to carry more weight. Rutgers-Camden is test-optional: scores are considered if you submit them but not required. Send a score at or above the middle of the admitted range; otherwise apply without one and let your transcript lead.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10.

In its review, Rutgers-Camden leans most on rigor of secondary school record, academic GPA, and standardized test scores. Solid grades in a challenging schedule do most of the work here, with the rest of the application providing context. These ratings come from Rutgers-Camden's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Rutgers-Camden's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $35,178 per year. Tuition and fees are $17,764 for NJ residents and $37,276 for out-of-state students, a $19,512 gap that makes residency the single biggest lever on cost. What families actually pay is different: the average net price after grants and scholarships is $18,745 a year, and it ranges from $13,797 for families earning under $30,000 to $30,639 for families earning over $110,000. 48% of undergraduates receive a federal Pell Grant.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Net price is what students receiving aid paid after grants, by family income.

Ten years after enrolling, the median Rutgers-Camden student who received federal aid earns $74,479 a year, up from $61,263 at six years. 67% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 80% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $21,500; 47% of undergraduates take federal loans.

Source: College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), release 2026-06-10. Earnings cover students who received federal aid.

Among the 20 New Jersey schools we track, Rutgers-Camden ranks #6 most selective by acceptance rate. Schools like Princeton University (5%) and Stevens Institute of Technology (48%) sit nearby, which makes New Jersey a useful frame for calibrating a balanced list. As a public university, residency matters: in-state applicants generally see meaningfully better odds than the headline rate suggests.

Build around Rutgers-Camden with peers at a comparable selectivity, such as Florida Atlantic University, Fort Valley State University, and Lincoln University (PA). Running the same profile against each one in the free calculator is the fastest way to see where you are a reach, a match, or a likely.

Acceptance rate, application counts, admitted test ranges, cost, and outcomes reflect publicly reported federal data (U.S. Department of Education: IPEDS 2023 and the College Scorecard) and each school's Common Data Set; figures are rounded and lag the current cycle by one to two years, so confirm deadlines and policies on the school's own site. The typical-admit GPA and SAT are CollegeCalcAI's modeled estimates. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.