The student fee provides financial support for student activities, student health services and insurance, and intercollegiate athletics. In addition, the fee is used to amortize the construction loan for the local college center and to provide partial support for overhead operating costs of general facilities that are available to students.

The per-term student fee varies according to college as follows:

Students at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the Rutgers Business School: Undergraduate, and the School of Engineering pay the fee indicated for their college of affiliation.