SAT scores, first-year students (mean combined math and verbal scores; first-year students on the Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick campuses combined)
2002: 1197 (fall 2002 incoming class)
Today: 1215 (fall 2007 incoming class)
Total Rutgers faculty in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2002: 44
Today: 49
Annual fundraising
2002: $86.8 million
Today: $103.2 million
Annual funding for Rutgers research (federal, state, corporate, and nonprofit sources)
2002: $242.3 million
Today: $309.7 million