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Admissions 104 & 105: The Top 60 Schools Choose* & the Top 25 By Percentage of Jews*

Jewish % of Jewish Jewish JAFI/Hillel Reform Reform PRIVATE SCHOOLS Population Student Studies Studies Engagement Worship Groups/ (Undergrad) Population Courses Major Interns on Campus Events top 25 schools by 1 (New York, NY) 6,000 28% 70 Yes No Yes Yes Yes percentage of jews 2 University (Boston, MA) 4,500 28% 65 Yes No No Yes Yes 3 University (New York, NY) 3,080 96% 138 Yes No No No No 4 (New York, NY) 3,000 30% 25 No Yes Yes Yes Yes 1 Jewish Theological 5 George University (Washington, DC) 3,000 29% 30 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Seminary of America  6 (Ithaca, NY) 3,000 23% 46 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 200 Jewish , 100% 7 University of (Philadelphia, PA) 2,500 25% 50 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 2  8 (Syracuse, NY) 2,500 19% 20 Yes No Yes Yes No 3,080 Jewish Students, 96% 9 (, LA) 2,250 32% 50 Yes Yes Yes Yes No 3 American Jewish University  10 (Atlanta, GA) 2,100 30% 61 Yes No No Yes Yes 110 Jewish Students, 92% 11 University of Southern (, CA) 2,000 11% 14 No Yes Yes Yes Yes 12 (Waltham, MA) 1,750 50% 60 Yes No No Yes Yes 4 Brandeis University  13 (Cambridge, MA) 1,680 25% 40 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 1,750 Jewish Students, 50% 14 University of (Coral Gables, FL) 1,600 15% 15 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 5 Muhlenberg  15 (Washington, DC) 1,600 23% 25 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 750 Jewish Students, 35% 16 (Evanston, IL) 1,600 20% 35 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 6 University of Hartford  17 (New Haven, CT) 1,500 27% 50 Yes Yes No N/A N/A ISRAEL FEST, UNIVERSITY AT 1,500 Jewish Students, 33% 18 Washington University (St. Louis, MO) 1,500 25% 60 Yes No Yes Yes Yes ALBANY HILLEL. 19 University of Hartford (West Hartford, CT) 1,500 33% 20 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 7  20 Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY) 1,350 18% 14 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 770 Jewish Students, 33% 21 (Medford, MA) 1,250 25% 25 Yes No Yes Yes No 8  22 , Campus (Brooklyn, NY) 1,200 22% 0 No No No N/A N/A 400 Jewish Students, 33% 23 (Nashville, TN) 1,050 16% 35 Yes No No Yes Yes 9 Tulane University  24 (Boston, MA) 1,000 7% 38 Yes No No Yes Yes 2,250 Jewish Students, 32% 25 (Providence, RI) 1,000 17% 30 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 26 (Rochester, NY) 900 20% 8 No No No Yes Yes 10 Columbia University  27 Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA) 900 7% 5 No No Yes Yes No 3,000 Jewish Students, 30% 28 University of (Chicago, IL) 850 16% 30 Yes Yes Yes Yes No 11 Emory University  29 Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) 850 29% 23 Yes No No Yes Yes 2,100 Jewish Students, 30% 30 DePaul University (Chicago, IL) 800 4% 10 No Yes Yes Yes Yes 12  PUBLIC SCHOOLS 450 Jewish Students, 30% 13 George Washington University 1 (Gainesville, FL) 6,500 17% 77 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes INDIANA 3,000 Jewish Students, 29% 2 , New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ) 6,400 16% 50 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes UNIVERSITY 14 Oberlin College  3 University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL) 6,000 10% 15 No No Yes Yes No HILLEL STUDENTS 850 Jewish Students, 29% 4 University of , College Park (College Park, MD) 5,800 22% 40 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes HELP REBUILD 15  5 Pennsylvania State University, University Park (University Park, PA) 5,000 13% 80 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes NEW ORLEANS 6,000 Jewish Students, 28% 6 (Ann Arbor, MI) 4,500 18% 120 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes DURING 7 (Bloomington, IN) 4,200 14% 60 Yes No No Yes Yes ALTERNATIVE 16 

8 College (Flushing, NY) 4,010 26% 46 Yes No Yes No Yes Courtesy of Rebuilding Together New Orleans SPRING BREAK. 4,500 Jewish Students, 28% 9 University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI) 4,000 13% 75 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 17 Yale University  10 University of , Austin (Austin, TX) 4,000 8% 30 Yes Yes Yes Yes No 1,500 Jewish Students, 27% 11 California State University, Northridge (Northridge, CA) 4,000 10% 14 Yes Yes No Yes Yes 12 State University (Tempe, AZ) 3,600 6% 40 Yes Yes No Yes No 18 CUNY,  13 University at Albany (Albany, NY) 3,500 27% 20 No Yes No Yes Yes 3,500 Jewish Students, 27% 14 McGill University (Montreal, QC) 3,500 10% 100 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 19 University at Albany  15 CUNY, Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY) 3,500 27% 43 Yes Yes Yes No No 3,500 Jewish Students, 27% 16 (Vestal, NY) 3,500 25% 30 Yes No Yes Yes Yes 20 Queens College  17 Florida International University (Miami, FL) 3,500 13% 15 No Yes No Yes Yes 4,012 Jewish Students, 26% 18 University of at Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL) 3,250 10% 61 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 19 (Tucson, AZ) 3,250 10% 45 Yes Yes Yes Yes No 21 University of Pennsylvania  20 (Tallahassee, FL) 3,220 10% 30 No No Yes Yes No 2,500 Jewish Students, 25% 21 (Columbus, OH) 3,200 7% 100 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 22 Harvard University  22 York University (Toronto, ON) 3,000 6% 62 Yes No Yes No No 1,675 Jewish Students, 25% 23 University of Western Ontario (, ON) 3,000 10% 25 Yes Yes Yes No No 23 Washington University  24 Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) 3,000 8% 25 No Yes No Yes Yes 1,500 Jewish Students, 25% 25 , Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA) 2,750 14% 40 No No Yes Yes Yes 26 University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) 2,600 9% 50 Yes Yes Yes Yes No 2 4 Tufts University  CHALLAH 27 University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) 2,600 7% 12 No No Yes Yes No 1,250 Jewish Students, 25% BAKING, A 28 University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA) 2,600 17% 32 Yes No No Yes Yes WEEKLY RITE 25  29 University of California, Davis (Davis, CA) 2,500 10% 23 Yes Yes No Yes No AT TEXAS 680 Jewish Students, 25% 30 University of , Amherst (Amherst, MA) 2,500 14% 75 Yes Yes No Yes Yes HILLEL. * NOTES: Estimated population figures and other campus information are self-reported For Reform college programs: urj.org/college. N/A means information was not made available by local Hillels. Contact : 202-449-6500, hillel.org/guide. to Reform magazine.