By James Osborne, Inquirer Staff Writer.

Rowan University officials are scrambling to figure out how much Gov. Christie’s plan to restructure the state’s higher education system will cost them before they have to submit a funding request for next year’s state budget in a matter of months.

The deadline for state universities to file has not yet been set, but traditionally is in November, according to the Governor’s Office.

Rowan officials, along with their financial analysts, have begun meeting with officials from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to get a complete financial breakdown before they take over its School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford in July 2013.

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