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Letter
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Containment
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Cost Containment:
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Part
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The above cost-containment measures have been achieved while continuing to provide quality education and services. Indeed, the strategic thrust of reallocation efforts is to enhance academic quality of the university. The success of these efforts is reflected in comparative information about Rutgers and its peer institutions in both undergraduate and graduate programs offered. The following tables underscore this point. Rutgers ranks 8th among public AAU institutions
in six-year graduation rates for all undergraduate students and
ranks near the very top in six-year graduation rates for its
African American, Asian, and Latino undergraduate students. Fall 1990 Full-Time, First-Year Students   In the recent past, a number of national studies
have constructed statistical models that allow institutions to
compare their actual graduation rates with rates that can be
expected given certain background and academic characteristics
of their undergraduate student body. Rutgers ranked favorably
on all these studies in that its actual graduation rate exceeded
its expected graduation rate.1 For example, Kroc et
al. (1995), in a study of graduation rates for a majority of
public AAU institutions, some land grant schools, and a selected
group of public research universities, showed that Rutgers actual
five-year graduation rate (66.2%) exceeded its predicted graduation
rate (60.2%) by six points. Rutgers ranked 9th out
of 44 institutions in this study.
When the size of the undergraduate student body
is taken into account Rutgers ranks 10th in the percentage
of students in an undergraduate class that received a doctoral
degree among all public AAU institutions.
In 1995, Rutgers awarded 13.6% of Ph.D. degrees
to minority students. The university ranked 6th in
the number of Ph.D. degrees awarded to African American students,
16th in the number of Ph.D. degrees awarded to Asian
students, and 11th in the number of Ph.D. degrees
awarded to Latino students among public AAU institutions.
Results of the recent National Research Council study of Ph.D. programs reveal the great strides Rutgers has made in the quality of its doctoral offerings. Thirteen programs were listed among the top 25 nationally based on criteria of faculty quality. The following table indicates that faculty quality ratings improved since the prior NRC study for 22 New Brunswick doctoral programs. Sixteen Rutgers-New Brunswick doctoral programs achieved faculty quality ratings higher than the averages of their public AAU peers, and 24 Rutgers-New Brunswick doctoral programs had higher faculty quality ratings than the averages for northeast public AAU institutions. Four Rutgers-Newark doctoral programs earned faculty quality ratings above the public Doctoral II institution averages (the Carnegie classification appropriate for the Newark Campus). Concerning change in program quality over the past
five years, 29 Rutgers-New Brunswick doctoral programs improved
more than the averages of their public AAU peers and more than
the averages for the northeast public AAU institutions. One Rutgers-Newark
doctoral program improved more than the public Doctoral II institution
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