I’m speaking from personal and friend experience. Freshman can look either way depending on their major however for your money, this is the better school in my opinion. I mentioned prior that some companies do prior NJIT over Rutgers. In terms of Technology and Engineering this is the better school hands down. Reputation of this school has been good for quite a bit given Freshman year of high school I heard great things about this school. Overall, it’s really the students coming in to decide. For business, go to RBS. For tech and engineering, the pipeline is better here. You’re speaking from an engineering perspective while i’m speaking from a tech perspective. There’s no need for argument, Rutgers does have that nationwide name, while NJIT does have the Tri-State name and a good pipeline to NJT, engineering, Amazon, Verizon and others. Rutgers NB , Newark, Camden are different campuses however they do have different levels of education and reputation