, tied with the University of Maryland and Florida State . As we’ve climbed in the rankings, students have taken notice. This year, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School received 5,800 applications, an 83% increase from 2012. The New Jersey Medical School received 5,880 applications in 2023, a 70% jump from 2012.
Don’t miss an issue of our Opinion newsletter! Get it delivered each Wednesday right into your inbox by adding your email below and hitting"subscribe."New research support also has found its way to Rutgers. Today, we’re a research powerhouse, with expenditures. In 2022, Rutgers faculty generated $872.8 million in research grants and sponsored programs. More than half of that was RBHS-related research. RBHS has also brought $3.
A crowning achievement — and affirmation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Rutgers integration — was the award in 2019 of a from the National Institutes of Health to help translate clinical research into patient care and treatments. The ongoing partnership between Rutgers Health with RWJBarnabas Health has continued to produce the most comprehensive academic health system in the state. The longstanding affiliation with University Hospital in Newark and other partnerships have allowed Rutgers Health to continue to strive toward its mission of equitable health care access and outcomes for all New Jerseyans.
These efforts are having a direct impact on the state’s economy, too. Before the creation of RBHS, new pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies were rarely drawn to New Jersey, opting instead for states such as California or Massachusetts to be close to Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford. Today, companies are coming to New Jersey because of Rutgers and RBHS.