86% of students receive grant aid, and the median award among them is $16,000 a year. These figures describe students already enrolled, so they are a record of what past classes received rather than a prediction of what you will be offered.
How much aid do students receive?
Grant aid, academic year 2024 to 2025
Among students who receive aid, awards run from $10,000 at the 25th percentile to $22,000 at the 75th. The average discount across all students, including those receiving nothing, is $13,945 a year.
Full cost panelABA 509 figures report grants and scholarships received by students. These may include need-based and merit aid; the table does not identify the basis of each award. Shares are of all students in the reported population.
Annual award among recipients
Across the whole class
- Average discount, all students (HFL estimate)
- $13,945 a year
- Full tuition, three years
- $155,679
The median award counts only students who received one. The average discount includes students who received nothing, so it is the more conservative of the two. Full tuition means tuition and mandatory fees, not living costs.
How awards divide
Shares are of all 1235 full-time students at Rutgers University, not of aid recipients only. Counts and shares are from the school's ABA 509 disclosure, covering the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Rutgers University reports 1 further student as receiving a grant without stating the amount, so they are shown separately rather than counted as receiving nothing.
Each band is a share of the tuition that student was charged at the time of the award, so a full tuition award is worth a different amount to a resident than to a non resident. For scale, tuition and mandatory fees for academic year 2025 to 2026 are $51,893 for non residents, or $35,607 for residents. That is the current year, not the year these awards were made, and it does not cover living costs.
How we estimate what students actually payABA 509 disclosures, 2025 release (tuition 2025 to 2026, grants 2024 to 2025)
Sticker price is published tuition plus mandatory fees. Actual average paid applies the school’s reported grant percentiles to its student body, so it includes the students who receive no aid at all.
Students with no scholarship pay the full sticker price. Grant recipients are split into quartiles using the reported 25th, 50th and 75th percentile awards, and each quartile is credited with the average award across its range. That uses every percentile the ABA publishes rather than the median alone.
We use non-resident tuition throughout, so the estimate is deliberately conservative. An individual offer can land well above or well below this average.
The two halves of this estimate are not from the same year. Tuition and fees are the 2025 to 2026 figures; the grant percentiles behind the discount are the 2024 to 2025 awards, which is the most recent year the ABA reports. A school that raised tuition or changed its aid budget between the two will sit slightly off.
Where your numbers fall
Entering class of Fall 2025
Grant aid, academic year 2024 to 2025
Rutgers University does not publish an award grid, and the ABA data does not record what any school weighs in making an offer. What follows is the class profile, which is context for where an applicant sits, not a schedule of what an award will be.
Full admissions panelThis school's middle 50 percent
LSAT
GPA
At or above 161 on the LSAT and 3.82 on GPA you are in the top quarter of this class on both. The medians are 158 and 3.66. These are admissions statistics: Rutgers University has not published any of them as an award threshold, and the ABA figures on this page cannot say whether either affected a grant. 11 students in the current class, 0.9%, hold a full tuition award or better, so full rides do exist here.
This is an inference from the class profile and the published award distribution, not a rule Rutgers University has stated. Awards also weigh the strength of the applicant pool that year and the rest of the file.
Check your own numbers
120 to 180
0.00 to 4.33
How this estimate is builtABA 509 disclosures, 2025 and LSAC admission index
Your LSAT and GPA are compared with the quartiles this school reported for the students who enrolled, not for everyone it admitted. The ABA publishes three points per measure, the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile, and three points cannot pin down an exact rank. So each comparison is shown as a range, and landing exactly on a published quartile gives the widest range of all.
The two numbers are combined using the index formula LSAC publishes for this school, so the weighting between LSAT and GPA is usually the school’s own rather than one we chose. LSAC publishes no formula for about one school in eight; there we use the median weighting across the schools that do publish one, which is a model of ours and is labelled as such on the page. Tested against the schools that publish a formula, that median puts an applicant in the same band 94.5 percent of the time.
Placing you against a formula evaluated at the school’s quartiles is an approximation either way: the index at the median LSAT and median GPA is not the class median index, because the same student rarely holds both.
The award range is a modeling assumption of ours, not a rule the school has published. We assume awards are ordered by numerical strength, then read your position against the school’s own reported figures: the share of the class receiving no grant, and the 25th, 50th and 75th percentile award among the students who received one. Applied across a whole class that reproduces exactly what the school filed, which is the only check possible without knowing what real applicants were offered.
The ABA reports amounts and counts, never the basis of an award, and its grant figures can mix need-based and merit aid. Because the data cannot identify a basis, we model an award wherever a school has not said it awards on need alone. Harvard, Yale and Stanford publicly award on demonstrated need, so no score-based estimate is shown for them.
Above the 75th percentile award the ABA publishes nothing, so the top of the range is a floor rather than a ceiling. The estimate assumes you are admitted and says nothing about whether you would be.
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Common questions about scholarships at Rutgers University
What LSAT score do I need for a scholarship at Rutgers University?
Rutgers University does not publish an LSAT threshold for aid, and the ABA data does not record why any award was made. What the data does show: 86% of students receive grant aid, with a median of $16,000 a year among recipients. The median admitted LSAT is 158, with a 75th percentile of 161.
Does Rutgers University give merit scholarships?
Rutgers University has not published a policy we have verified either way, and the ABA 509 disclosure does not identify the basis of an award. What it reports is that 86% of students receive grants or scholarships, with a median of $16,000 a year among recipients, running from $10,000 at the 25th percentile to $22,000 at the 75th.
How much is a full tuition scholarship at Rutgers University?
Tuition and mandatory fees at Rutgers University are $51,893 a year for non residents, or $155,679 across three years. A full tuition award covers tuition and mandatory fees. It does not cover living costs, which the school estimates separately.
What percentage of Rutgers University students receive grant aid?
86% of students at Rutgers University receive grants or scholarships, per the school's ABA 509 disclosure. That figure describes students already enrolled, so it is a record of what past classes received rather than a prediction of what an applicant will be offered.