Rutgers-Newark acceptance rate and your odds of getting in

Rutgers-Newark, a public university in New Jersey, reports a 71% acceptance rate and sits in the moderately selective band. In practice that means it admits more applicants than it rejects, so a strong application is judged against an applicant pool that is already self-selected.

Use this page to see what Rutgers-Newark 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-Newark with a 3.1 GPA and a 1120 SAT?

About 88% (Safety), by CollegeCalcAI's deterministic model, for an applicant with a 3.1 unweighted GPA and a 1120 SAT, the middle of Rutgers-Newark's admitted range, applying Regular Decision without a hook. A 3.4 GPA with a 1180 SAT comes out near 97%. Courses, activities, essays and the application round move the number; the free calculator includes them.

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There is no formula that guarantees a spot at Rutgers-Newark, but the applicants who get in tend to do the same four things. Here is what the numbers say each one looks like.

Rutgers-Newark admitted 13,997 of the 17,779 students who applied for fall 2023, which works out to 78.7%. 1,408 enrolled. Only about 10% 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-Newark enrolls about 7,709 undergraduates in total, 53% of them women, with a student-to-faculty ratio of 14 to 1.

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

Rutgers-Newark reports that it neither requires nor recommends test scores, so admission turns on your transcript, rigor, and the rest of the file.

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

The factors that carry the most weight at Rutgers-Newark are 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-Newark's reported Common Data Set, so the full chart below reflects what the school itself says it values, not a generic guess.

Rutgers-Newark's published cost of attendance, before any aid, is roughly $35,654 per year. Tuition and fees are $17,250 for NJ residents and $36,762 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 $19,703 a year, and it ranges from $16,420 for families earning under $30,000 to $33,018 for families earning over $110,000. 59% 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-Newark student who received federal aid earns $74,479 a year, up from $61,263 at six years. 64% of first-time, full-time students graduate within six years, and 84% return for a second year. Among graduates who borrowed, median federal debt at graduation is $21,500; 32% 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-Newark ranks #10 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.

Applicants targeting Rutgers-Newark often weigh University of Delaware, University of South Alabama, and Virginia Military Institute, which sit at a similar level. 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.