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COLUMBUS, Ohio - In advance of Saturday's football game between Ohio State and Rutgers, here's a look at the two universities by the numbers -- sports, money and academics.
The data is from the U.S. Department of Education, reports the schools file with the NCAA and cleveland.com/datacentral research.
The game is a matchup between two large state universities, one from New Jersey, one from Ohio.
Which school has higher tuition and graduation rates? How about the number of faculty or total students?
Scroll below to learn answers to those questions and more.
Student fees, other university cash for sports
Ohio State, with high-dollar ticket sales, Big Ten contracts and donations, is able to pay its entire athletic bill without help from student fees or money from other non-athletic university sources.
Rutgers, according to its most recent NCAA filing, subsidized its sports program with $30 million. This included $11.9 million in student fees. The rest was other support from the institution.
Athletic budget
The Ohio State athletic program spent $203.8 million during the 2017-18 school year, according to the school's latest financial filing with the NCAA.
Rutgers spent $102.5 million during the same time period.
Football ticket money
Ohio State collected $59,353,054 in football ticket revenue in 2017, the most recent year for which financial data has been reported to the NCAA.
Rutgers took in $8.4 million that same year.
The tuition bill
New Jersey residents pay about $4,500 more a year to attend Rutgers than Ohio residents do to attend Ohio State, including tuition, fees, room and board, according to federal data from the 2018-19 school year.
Here's the breakdown:
- In-state tuition: Rutgers $14,974; Ohio State, $10,726.
- Out-of-state tuition: Rutgers $31,282; Ohio State, $30,742.
- Room-and-board on campus: Rutgers $12,706; Ohio State, $12,474.
Student enrollment
Ohio State has 61,170 students at its Columbus campus, including 48,820 undergraduates.
Rutgers' enrollment is 50,254, including 36,039 undergraduates in New Brunswick, New Jersey, according to the most recent data from National Center for Education Statistics.
Home attendance
Ohio State last season ranked third in the country in attendance with an average of 101,947 per game, behind only Michigan (110,737) and Penn State (106,572).
Rutgers averaged 37,799 a game to rank 58th nationally.
Teaching faculty
Ohio State, with 4,065 full-time teaching faculty and 2,382 part-time, reports a student-to-teacher ratio of 19-to-1.
Rutgers reports a student-to-teacher ratio of 16-to-1, with 3,361 full-time teaching faculty and 2,475 part-time.
Graduation rates
Campuswide, 59% of students graduate Ohio State within four years and 84% within six, according to federal data based on students who started school in 2012.
At Rutgers, the graduation rates are 61% within four years and 80% within six years.
Sports program
Ohio State fields 36 teams with 956 athletes, according to its latest financial filing with the NCAA for 2017-18.
Rutgers has 24 teams and 677 athletes.
Paying the head coach
The financial filing each school is required to make with the NCAA is comprehensive when it comes to coaching pay. Schools must include wages, bonuses, allowances, speaking fees, retirement stipends, memberships, media income, tuition reimbursement and earned deferred compensation. And, if a job change occurs, totals for both coaches are combined.
For the 2017-18 school year, Ohio State reported pay and benefits of just under $7 million for head football coach Urban Meyer, well ahead of the $2.5 million spent by Rutgers.
Assistant coach pay
Pay and benefits for the 10 assistant football coaching positions at Ohio State totaled $8.6 million during the 2017-18 school year.
For nine assistant coaching positions, Rutgers reported pay and benefits of $4.3 million.
Winning football
Over the last 10 seasons, Ohio State ranks second nationally in winning percentage, behind Alabama, with a record of 115-19 from 2009 through 2018.
Rutgers ranks 85th, with a record of 56-69.
Nationally ranked
Ohio State has had nine top 25 finishes in the last 10 seasons, tied for second best nationally with Clemson and LSU. Only Alabama has finished in the AP top 25 in each of the last 10 seasons.
Rutgers last finished a season ranked in the top 25 in 2006, finishing 12th. Previous to that, Rutgers hadn't been in the top 25 at the end of a season since it was 17th in 1976.
Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner. See more data-related stories at cleveland.com/datacentral.
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