Yeshiva University Overview

Yeshiva University is a private not-for-profit institution situated in New York, New York. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

What Is Yeshiva University Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Yeshiva since the student to facuty ratio is 7 to 1.
• The 0% student loan default rate at Yeshiva is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at Yeshiva.
• In <nil>, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Yeshiva with a bachelor's degree make about $67,963 a year. That's 67% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.2 years for students from Yeshiva to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Yeshiva University?

Contact details for Yeshiva are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	500 W 185Th St, New York, NY 10033-3299
Phone:	212-960-5400
Website:	www.yu.edu

How Do I Get Into Yeshiva?

You can apply to Yeshiva online at: yu.edu/admissions/apply/application-process/

Admission Requirements for Yeshiva

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Neither required nor recommended
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Recommended
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Yeshiva?

With an acceptance rate of 63%, Yeshiva does not let just anybody through their doors! Make sure you spend enough time polishing up your application so you will make a great impression.

Approximately 54% of accepted students are men and 46% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 64%, and the acceptance rate for women is 61%.

Can I Afford Yeshiva University?

The overall average net price of Yeshiva is $42,301. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Yeshiva, approximately 26% of students took out student loans averaging $6,923 a year. That adds up to $27,692 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Yeshiva is 0.2%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Yeshiva University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,657 undergraduate students at Yeshiva, with 2,536 being full-time and 121 being part-time.

There are also 2,844 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,536 full-time undergraduates at Yeshiva, 54% are male and 46% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Yeshiva University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	1,490
International Students	184
Other Races/Ethnicities	849

Geographic Diversity

New York students aren't the only ones who study at Yeshiva University. At this time, 24 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 64 countries are represented at Yeshiva. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, China, and Israel.

Online Learning at Yeshiva University

In 2020-2021, 1,210 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Yeshiva has changed over the last few years.

Online Growth Rankings of Yeshiva

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Yeshiva University was 80.8%. This is the #485 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Yeshiva regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.