Jewish Students at Colleges & Universities

Hillel’s Guide to Jewish Life on Campus (available at Hillel.org) provides information for colleges and universities around the world. The College Finder: Choose the School That’s Right for You!  by Steven Antonoff, provides hundred of interesting college lists, including a list of private, and a list of public, colleges with the highest percentages of Jewish Students. Reform Judaism Magazine published a Top 60 List of Jewish Students on Campus, using estimated population statistics provided by Hillel.

These colleges and universities have large percentages of Jewish students:

Jewish Student Percentage Above 90%

• Yeshiva University (NYC)

Jewish Student Percentage Above 60%

• Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts)

Jewish Student Percentage Above 40%

• Barnard College (New York)

Jewish Student Percentage Above 30%

• Emory University (Georgia)
• Pratt Institute (New York)
• University of Hartford (Connecticut)
• George Washington University (D.C.)
• Tufts University (Massachusetts)
• University of Pennsylvania
• Harvard University

Jewish Student Percentage Above 25%

• Oberlin College (Ohio)
• Washington University (Missouri)
• Tulane (Louisiana)
• Brown University (Rhode Island)
• Columbia University (New York)
• CUNY (Brooklyn & Queens, New York)
• SUNY (Binghamton & Albany, New York)

Jewish Student Percentage Above 20%

• Northwestern (Illinois)
• Yale (Connecticut)
• Long Island University (New York)
• Cornell University (New York)
• New York University (New York)
• Syracuse University (New York)
• University of Denver (Colorado)
• University of Rochester (New York)
• University of California at Santa Cruz

Jewish Student Percentage Above 15%

• University of Maryland (College Park)
• University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
• Rutgers (New Jersey)
• McGill (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• University of Florida

The College Finder: Choose the School That’s Right for You!  by Steven Antonoff, provides hundreds of interesting college lists, on virtually every subject imaginable.   In addition to providing including a list of private, and a list of public, colleges with the highest percentages of Jewish Students, The College Finder also provide lists of colleges with Kosher Kitchens and Colleges with Active Jewish Communities.