Yeshiva University

The mission of Yeshiva University - the world’s flagship Jewish university - is to educate, empower and inspire its students to become the next generation of leaders, guided at all times by its core values. The University achieves this through a transformative, world-class, and interdisciplinary education that is deep and broad and that cultivates in its students a sense of meaning, purpose and drive to make the world a better place — for themselves and for future generations.
Yeshiva University has grown from a small yeshiva offering some secular education to Jews on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1886 to a prestigious, multifaceted institution that integrates the knowledge of Western civilization and the rich treasures of Jewish culture.
Yeshiva University today supports three undergraduate schools (including honors programs and Torah studies programs), seven graduate and professional schools, renowned affiliates such as the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a diverse multitude of scholarly centers and institutes, and several libraries, a museum and a university press, located on campuses both in the United States and Israel.
One of the notable aspects of a Yeshiva University education is the way the University’s multiple disciplines intersect. Students pursuing semicha at the Seminary can also take advanced courses in counseling and therapy from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology or Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Students at Sy Syms School of Business are tutored by renowned Roshei Yeshivas on Jewish law and contracts, while science researchers at Stern College for Women convene conferences that bring together leading figures in science, bioethics and religion. Computer science majors attend lectures by chief information officers of major institutions as they explore the ethical dilemmas posed by big data and algorithms.
In addition to this intellectual environment, activities such as humanitarian missions to flood-ravaged areas, numerous student publications, student-founded national non-profit organizations like College EDge and START Science, and a respected athletics program demonstrate that Yeshiva University is a vibrant, forward-looking institution that offers its students multiple ways to design lives and careers of service and purpose.