by our College Data Analytics TeamHere we dig into Football at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, a fall sport — team by team, topic by topic, with gender and cross-sport comparisons throughout. Rutgers New Brunswick plays at the level of NCAA Division I-FBS as a member of Big Ten Conference.
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The Rutgers New Brunswick men’s football team fields 137 players, with an NCAA multi-year squad size of 369. The NCAA tracked 447 athletes in this program for its academic reporting.
Among the 18 varsity sports Rutgers New Brunswick sponsors, football ranks #2 by total roster size.
The men’s football program employs 11 coaches — 1 head coach and 10 assistants. In all, 11 are full-time and 0 part-time. Leading the program is Greg Schiano.
Across the school’s 18 sports, football sits #3 by total coaching staff.
These numbers are reported to the U.S. Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey.
The Rutgers New Brunswick men’s football program reported $75,922,954 in revenue against $75,922,954 in expenses, breaking even on the year. This comes to about $105,469 in operating expense per athlete, or $14,449,212 per team.
Against the school’s 18 sports, football sits #1 by revenue, or about 44% of the school’s total athletics revenue.
The men’s football team posted an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 982 (979 on a multi-year basis) and a Graduation Success Rate of 85%. The program kept 97% of its athletes, with 98% remaining academically eligible.
Compared with the school’s average team APR of 991, football trails the average at 982.
When Rutgers New Brunswick places on one of our Best Schools for a Sport list, we note it here. College Factual’s sports rankings weigh both athletics and academics.
Some figures may be missing where the school did not report them.