Newark (RU-N) Chancellor Nancy Cantor today announced a major new financial aid initiative called the Talent & Opportunity Pathways program—or RU-N to the TOP—which will make college more affordable for wide swaths of New Jersey students, especially residents of Newark, those transferring from county colleges, and those with great potential to make an impact on the world.
RU-N to the TOP provides the following specific guarantees for RU-N undergraduate applicants, effective fall 2016:
All Newark residents who gain admission and whose household adjusted gross income (AGI) is $60,000 or less will be offered scholarships covering 100% of undergraduate tuition and fees (after federal, state, and external scholarships have been awarded).
Admitted students who are transferring to RU-N after earning an associate’s degree from a New Jersey county college, and whose household AGI is $60,000 or less, will be offered scholarships covering 100% of undergraduate tuition and fees (after federal, state, and external scholarships have been awarded).
All students admitted to RU-N’s innovative new Honors Living-Learning Community will receive 100% residential scholarships covering the full cost of room and board.
“With RU-N to the TOP we are firmly planting a stake in the ground for college affordability for Newarkers and New Jerseyans,” says Cantor.
“We are saying to the young people of the city of Newark and our great state: We see your talent. We honor your talent. We want you to learn with us—and we want to learn from you—and together with our communities of experts across Newark, the state, the nation, and the world, we are going to make a difference.”
Please contact a Rutgers Newark admissions counselor today.