Department:

• Faculty in the department: 37  (the combined total of full-time, part-time, and other faculty at all ranks is 40)
• Undergraduate physics majors: 86
• Graduate students in the program: 78
• Graduate student admission:  14 students were accepted
  out of 187 applicants for the Fall 2010
• Research expenditures: $7 million per year
• Department location: Sharp Lab
• Department chair: Edmund Nowak
• Bartol Research Institute director: Stephen Barr
• 2010 NRC ranking of Physics Ph.D. programs: 44th in the US
• 2013 Performance ranking of scientific papers (by National Taiwan University): 76 in the US
• Citation impact from Google Scholar for DPA researchers
   

University:

• Setting: Main campus is in Newark ("New Ark"), which offers the charm of a small college town, with easy access to major metropolitan areas (distances to Sharp Lab: New York City 133 miles; Washington DC  96 miles; Philadelphia 44 miles; Baltimore 58 miles).
• Total faculty: 1,150
• Total students: 15,318
• Total graduate students: 3,600
  
• President: Dennis Assanis
• University officer for graduate studies: Ann Ardis
• Control: Both private and public