I got a physics degree from Rutgers New Brunswick and I had a great time!

One thing that's missing from here is what else you like about each school. I went to Rutgers, but studied abroad for one semester, which cost me an extra $20,000, since it was through another university. That one study abroad semester made me competitive for a state department job, which I got, which really helped me get my foot in the door in my career, and ultimately get into my dream grad school.

If I was weighing only cost, I never would have taken that semster abroad. I'm all for being as financially conservative as you can with an undergrad education, but with a field like physics, it seems to me that the institution is important. Depending on what you want to do long term.

And as Others have said, If you do decide to take change majors (it happens), Rutgers has pretty much anything you could want.

I went to Rutgers New Brunswick, so I can't say anything specific to Rutgers Newark if that is what you were talking about. I don't know how the campuses are or are not regarded differently when getting hired or applying to advanced degrees.

Where’s your sense of adventure? There aren’t many places left to go for a good down-home stabbin’ these days. Now if you had said “I don’t want to pay to park and then get stabbed” I would totally get that.

New Jersey got this dead beat mall instead of new train tunnels

Pretty much how the mall’s been since the “phase 2” opening (shops/restaurant/water park) in March 2020 was pushed back due to the early stage of the COVID pandemic in NJ & delayed that by 7 months.

Still, gonna get the popcorn ready for the legal drama we’ll see for American Dream in the months (& years) to come over debt & how it’s both in an over saturated retail market, and too much of a Jack of All Trades business.

I don’t want to get stabbed while shopping

Brothers is our go-to for pizza (except on Mondays lol). Looks yum

I’d assume you’re comparing NJIT to Rutgers - Newark? If not, New Brunswick or Camden?

Kristine's in Princeton is great for French food!

This is the right answer if you're serious about grad school OP; if there's research happening at either school that you're interested in and you can work your way into a lab as an undergrad assistant, that's huge for any grad schools that you'd apply to.

Not sure how the GI bill works for grad school but I have a friend who made a lot of connections in her department doing undergrad research and she was able to finesse a fellowship for a master's. Didn't pay a dime for tuition and got a stipend for living expenses while she was in the program.

As an NJIT alum it was a good school. Many years ago when I was there you could actually take classes and dual enroll in both schools, not sure if they allow it anymore but you could tack on concentrations from Rutgers to your major from NJIT (probably worked in reverse too). Guess it depends what you’re after. Do you want to live in a dorm and have the ‘college’ experience? Then it’s probably Rutgers. I was a commuter kid who worked 8 hours and then took 4 nights of night classes + some online classes in Newark so college social scene was non existent to me.

Yeah when the DOT was building route 15 through Sparta they uncovered partial mastodon skeleton. It’s in the public library now.

Lol kean is just as bad. I’m just being honest

13.75 on 300 mil !!?? Those deals should be posted on wallstreetbets 😂🤣

Love the flair. So appropriate

at least its not Trenton

I lovveee this. Going to get a book of Jersey specific plant life.

Well of course, if you lived in Ewing you'd tell everyone you lived in Princeton.

Very warm water.. much easier to find food.

But still shipping hazards they don't normally see with that much food.

It means almost nothing unless it’s an Ivy League. Especially in STEM.

tripel horse was my favorite beer man i could drink a million of those things

WOoLY MaMmoth

Hey, that’s disrespectful to Kean. Stockton is merely a party school.

For what it’s worth, my experience in the workforce with graduates from both schools is exactly the opposite of this.