Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 52.49
Liaison Angela Oberg
Submission Date Feb. 27, 2023

STARS v2.2

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.28 / 14.00 Angie Oberg
Associate Director
Office of Climate Action
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 3,048 1,247
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 44 46
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 361 292

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
17.30

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
117

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
59

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
50.43

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
Rutgers Office of Institutional Research provided a list of all courses offered during AY 21/22. Courses offered for research, independent study, and inter(extern)ships were removed from the list. Using course descriptions from the online course catalogue and syllabi (when available), the definitions of sustainability-focused and sustainability-inclusive provided in the STARS inventory template were applied.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
Each course offering was included only once regardless of the number of sections. This means that labs and recitations were removed from the course list to avoid double counting.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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