Rutgers University-Camden
Public Research University in Camden, NJ. Six-year graduation rate 67%. Median 10-year earnings $74,479.
A decade after enrolling, the median Rutgers University-Camden student earns $74,479 — comfortably above what the typical bachelor's-granting institution returns. Completion is a strength: 67% of students finish within six years. Graduates carry a median of $21,500 in debt — in line with the national norm.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
66% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. 32,840 students applied, a pool deep enough to make the acceptance rate meaningful. A 2% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 23% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 540–640 | 120 (23%) |
| SAT Math | 510–660 | |
| ACT Composite | 19–25 | 14 (3%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 67% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention is strong at 80%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. Transfer-out runs to 15% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 3,819 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $19,821 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $13,797 while those at $110k+ pay $30,639. Most students get help: 90% receive grants worth $14,282 on average. 48% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 575 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $13,797 |
| $30–48k | $14,357 |
| $48–75k | $16,184 |
| $75–110k | $20,475 |
| $110k+ | $30,639 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,843 of these 3,819 students, totalling $14,980,602 — an average of $8,128 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Camden County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)