For Rutgers, the premier public research university in New Jersey, diversity is an everyday part of university life and one of the institution’s greatest strengths.
- The Class of 2016, which enrolled
at Rutgers this past fall, is the most diverse in university history; more than
half of first-year students self-identify as nonwhite. Race/ethnicity full-time
enrollment statistics identify 19.8 percent of students as Asian, 11.4 percent
as Latino, 10 percent as African American, 6.2 percent as foreign and 5.5
percent as other. 47.1 percent are white.
- More than 3,300 international
students from 125 countries come to Rutgers to study.
- More than 40 student organizations
dedicated to religious and religious-cultural interests can be found at
Rutgers.
- Fifty percent of undergraduates
are women
- Rutgers is a member of the
Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization comprising North
America’s 62 leading research universities. Compared to its 35 AAU public peers
in some key student diversity categories (as of 2010), Rutgers is first in
master’s degrees earned by African Americans, first in doctorates earned by
women, second in baccalaureate degrees earned by African Americans, second in
all degrees earned by African Americans and second in African-American
enrollment.
- Among its AAU public peers,
Rutgers is fourth in full-time female faculty, 14th in full-time
African-American faculty and 15th in full-time minority faculty.
- Forty-five percent of Rutgers
faculty and staff identify themselves as non-white.
- Rutgers’ Office for the Promotion
of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics; the Office of Institutional
Diversity and Equity; and Rutgers Future Scholars are examples of
universitywide initiatives to increase diversity within the Rutgers community
of students, faculty and staff.
- Rutgers is listed as one of the nation’s top 100 campuses for the LGBT community in the Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students.