By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger
NEW BRUNSWICK — The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics unveiled a searchable database today that gives the public a glimpse into how much state colleges are spending on sports.
The database — called the Athletic and Academic Spending Database for NCAA Division I — details academic, athletic and football spending data at more than 220 public Division 1 colleges. The information comes from several publicly-available reports.
[…]At Rutgers University, annual academic sending increased 12 percent per student (from $19,509 to $21,930) between 2005 and 2011, according to the database. Meanwhile, Rutgers increased spending on athletics by 106 percent per athlete (from $48,037 to $98,997) during the same time period.
The database also includes information on Rutgers’ spending on football scholarships, coaching salaries, instructional spending and debt on facilities.
Similar information is also available for New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, which is a Division 1 school without a football team. In 2011, NJIT spent $16,029 per student on academic spending while spending $41,902 per athlete on athletics, according to the database.
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