Rutgers Academic Gains Seen Buoyed by Big Ten Payment
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Rutgers University will benefit academically by switching to the Big Ten Conference, an athletics powerhouse, school officials say. Yet, that may depend on how it spends its new-found wealth.
The move means Rutgers will play against football titans Ohio State University and the University of Nebraska, and step up into a more exclusive academic club. Like Rutgers, all Big Ten colleges except Nebraska are in the Association of American Universities, an invitation-only group of 62 research schools. The conference also makes up the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, which facilitates sharing of academic resources.