A trio of Rutgers University Alumni Association (RUAA) officers will welcome the Class of 2024

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RUAA Commencement Speakers Three of More than 600,000 | Rutgers University Foundation

A trio of Rutgers University Alumni Association (RUAA) officers will welcome the Class of 2024—which numbers almost 18,000—into the alumni family at the university’s commencement ceremonies starting May 12.

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18K students in one graduating class is bonkers. RU is probably graduating more students than Rowan, TCNJ, Princeton, and Monmouth combined. No wonder they're the 3rd largest school in the country by student population.

 

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No wonder they're the 3rd largest school in the country by student population.

That's university-wide with all campuses combined, not just for the NB/Pisc, and also not just undergrads but including grad students. NB/Pisc flagship campus is about 70% of the university wide enrollment inclusive of its portion of RBHS.

Comparatively, I'd be curious to know how a school such as OSU which has historically been a good bit larger in enrollment (also where probably 95+% of its enrollment is in Columbus and very small numbers at its five other no-name regional campuses) somehow dropped precipitously more than 10% in enrollment a couple years ago. Whether that's for the flagship Columbus-only or even if inclusive of those small satellite locations (which are basically open enrollment campuses and maybe 5-10K students all combined), you'd expect the overwhelming bulk of it was observed at the main campus. In any case, seems unlikely OSU lost 7K students (~68K down to ~61K) from one year to the next.

Also important to note that not all of the enrollment reporting is totally consistent across different multi-campus universities (which various states may structure and govern differently as it is, as university systems). To my point, a list with Rutgers' all-in 69K enrollment as being 3rd largest in the country is misleading if PSU's all-in 88K enrollment is nowhere to be seen in the top 10 of the same list.