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Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City.[4] The university's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Katz School of Science and Health, and Sy Syms School of Business—offer a dual curriculum inspired by ModernCentristOrthodox Judaism's hashkafa (philosophy) of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge"), combining academic education with the study of the Torah.[5]

This article is about the private university in NYC. For the unaffiliated high school in Los Angeles, see Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles. For other topics, see Yeshiva University (disambiguation).

Motto

Torah and secular knowledge

1886 (1886)[1]

$484 million (2022)

4,714

Urban, 300 acres (120 ha)

  • The YU Observer
  • The Commentator

  Yeshiva Blue
  Yeshiva Black
  Yeshiva Gray[3]

  • Maccabees
  • Taubermans

The Maccabee

While the majority of students at the university identify as Modern Orthodox,[6] many students, especially at the Cardozo School of Law, the Sy Syms School of Business, and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, are not Jewish.


Yeshiva University is an independent institution chartered by New York State.[7][8][9][10] It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education[11] and by several professional agencies.[12] It is classified among "Doctoral/Professional Universities".[13]

1915–40[18]

Bernard Revel

1943–75[19][20]

Samuel Belkin

1976–2003[21][22]

Norman Lamm

2003–17[23]

Richard M. Joel

2017–present[24]

Ari Berman

Yeshiva College (Yeshiva University)

Stern College for Women

Katz School of Science and Health

Sy Syms School of Business

Campuses[edit]

The university's main campus, Wilf Campus, is located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Yeshiva University's main office is located within the Wilf Campus, at 500 185th St.[37] A 1928 plan to build a spacious Moorish Revival campus around several gardens and courtyards was canceled by the Great Depression of 1929 after only one building had been erected. Building continued after the Depression in modern style and by the acquisition of existing neighborhood buildings.[38]


Since it was founded in 1886, Yeshiva University has expanded to comprise some twenty colleges, schools, affiliates, centers, and institutions, with several affiliated hospitals and healthcare institutions. It has campuses and facilities in Manhattan (Washington Heights, Murray Hill, Greenwich Village), the Bronx, Queens, and Israel.


The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University Museum is AAMG accredited and aims to provide a window into Jewish culture around the world and throughout history through multi-disciplinary exhibitions and publications.


The university's building in Jerusalem, in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood, contains a branch of the rabbinical seminary and an office coordinating the S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program.[39] Under the latter, first year students studying in selected Israeli Yeshivot are considered YU undergraduates.

Student life[edit]

Student publications[edit]

The undergraduate university newspaper is The Commentator, and the newspaper for Stern College is The Observer. Law students at Cardozo also edit and publish five law journals. There are numerous other publications on a wide range of topics, both secular and religious, produced by the various councils and academic clubs, along with many official university publications and the university press. The call letters of the student radio station are WYUR, and it is currently an Internet-only station.[40]

Official website