INSIDER’S GUIDE TOCOLLEGE LIFEADMISSIONS
PRIVATE
SCHOOLS
1 New York University (New York, NY)
2 Boston University (Boston, MA)
3 Yeshiva University (New York, NY)
4 Columbia University (New York, NY)
5 George Washington University (Washington, DC)
6 Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
7 University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
8 Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
9 Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
10 Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
11 University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
12 Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
13 Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
14 University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
15 American University (Washington, DC)
16 Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
17 Yale University (New Haven, CT)
18 Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
19 University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT)
20 Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY)
21 Tufts University (Medford, MA)
22 Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus (Brooklyn, NY)
23 Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
24 Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
25 Brown University (Providence, RI)
26 University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
27 Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
28 University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
29 Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
30 DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
Jewish % of
Population Student
(Undergrad) Population
6,000
4,500
3,080
3,000
3,000
3,000
2,500
2,500
2,250
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2,000
1,750
1,680
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1,500
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1,350
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SCHOOLS
1 University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
6,500
2 Rutgers University, New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ)
6,400
3 University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL)
6,000
4 University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
5,800
5 Pennsylvania State University, University Park (University Park, PA) 5,000
6 University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
4,500
7 Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
4,200
8 Queens College (Flushing, NY)
4,010
9 University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI)
4,000
10 University of Texas, Austin (Austin, TX)
4,000
11 California State University, Northridge (Northridge, CA)
4,000
12 Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
3,600
13 University at Albany (Albany, NY)
3,500
14 McGill University (Montreal, QC)
3,500
15 CUNY, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY)
3,500
16 Binghamton University (Vestal, NY)
3,500
17 Florida International University (Miami, FL)
3,500
18 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL)
3,250
19 University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
3,250
20 Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)
3,220
21 Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
3,200
22 York University (Toronto, ON)
3,000
23 University of Western Ontario (London, ON)
3,000
24 Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
3,000
25 University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
2,750
26 University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
2,600
27 University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
2,600
28 University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
2,600
29 University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
2,500
30 University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA)
2,500
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Jewish Studies
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top 25 schools by
percentage of jews
1 Jewish Theological
Seminary of America 200 Jewish Students, 100%
2 Yeshiva University 3,080 Jewish Students, 96%
3 American Jewish University 110 Jewish Students, 92%
4 Brandeis University 1,750 Jewish Students, 50%
5 Muhlenberg College 750 Jewish Students, 35%
6 University of Hartford ISRAEL FEST,
UNIVERSITY AT
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1,500 Jewish Students, 33%
7 Barnard College 770 Jewish Students, 33%
8 Sarah Lawrence College 400 Jewish Students, 33%
9 Tulane University 2,250 Jewish Students, 32%
10 Columbia University 3,000 Jewish Students, 30%
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11 Emory University 2,100 Jewish Students, 30%
12 Goucher College 450 Jewish Students, 30%
13 George Washington University
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
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3,000 Jewish Students, 29%
14 Oberlin College 850 Jewish Students, 29%
15 New York University 6,000 Jewish Students, 28%
16 Boston University 4,500 Jewish Students, 28%
17 Yale University 1,500 Jewish Students, 27%
18 CUNY, Brooklyn College 3,500 Jewish Students, 27%
19 University at Albany 3,500 Jewish Students, 27%
20 Queens College 4,012 Jewish Students, 26%
21 University of Pennsylvania 2,500 Jewish Students, 25%
22 Harvard University 1,675 Jewish Students, 25%
23 Washington University 1,500 Jewish Students, 25%
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24 Tufts University 1,250 Jewish Students, 25%
25 Wesleyan University 680 Jewish Students, 25%
For Reform college programs: urj.org/college. N/A means information was not made available to Reform Judaism magazine.