Listing the schools’ rating might be helpful so I’m using computer-science-schools.com (which I’m not sure is trustable)
Rowan 461
Ramapo 969
TCNJ 526
Rutgers NB 70
Rutgers NWK 311
Rutgers Cam 356
Stockton 478
RPI 72
NJIT 17
I’d like to apply to as few schools as possible because we’re broke so that’s why I’m asking, therefore waiting for FAFSA doesn’t help me since I’d have to apply to them first. The net price calculator is what I’m using as a sort of filter in order to then know what NOT to apply to for sure.
With regard to the net price calculator, I took the values without adjusting for loans. Those are the prices without loan reduction applied, so along with those costs I could additionally lower them with loans if that makes sense.
@njdadjets I know about the buses at rutgers nb as an issue and to me that is definitely one of the two problems I have with RutgersNB. The bus travel at Rutgers is notoriously a major drawback for me wanting to apply to Rutgers new brunswick. I’d like to know if Camden or Newark have the same issue since I’ve never gone there. I look at them over google earth and I can’t tell because I don’t know if the various campuses for each are places that I have to travel to.
Even though NJIT is less than 30 minutes away from home and I could potentially save on dorm/meal costs, my issue is- will I get a job? Look at their graduation rate-58.1% for 2014. I can’t tell if they have a good student employment rate because they don’t list it anywhere as other schools do. These are concrete issues that I considered for all these schools on my spreadsheet.
If anyone is curious why Hunter College came out so cheap, it’s because there are no dorms there so it wasn’t added to the cost. Thanks for the helps.