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2017 Top 60 Schools by Jewish Population

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March 15, 2018

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Applying to colleges isn’t easier, but we’re here to help you narrow down your choices. Below are the lists of the 2017 top schools Jews choose, as published in the Hillel College Guide Magazine and on Hillel’s College Guide web page. 

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Top 60 Public Universities by Jewish Population 
  1.  (Gainesville, FL)
  2.  (New Brunswick, NJ)
  3.  (Oviedo, FL)
  4.  (College Park, MD)
  5.  (Ann Arbor, MI)
  6.  (Madison, WI)
  7.  (Brooklyn, NY)
  8.  (Flushing, NY)
  9.  (Bloomington, IN)
  10.  (University Park, PA)
  11.  (Binghamton, NY)
  12.  (Albany, NY)
  13.  (Northridge, CA)
  14.  (East Lansing, MI)
  15.  (Tempe, AZ)
  16.  (North Miami Beach, FL)
  17.  (Toronto, ON, Canada)
  18.  (Tallahassee, FL)
  19.  (Champaign, IL)
  20.  (Tucson, AZ)
  21.  (Isla Vista, CA)
  22.  (Columbus, OH)
  23.  (Austin, TX)
  24.  (Montreal, QC, Canada)
  25.  (Berkeley, CA)
  26.  (Boulder, CO)
  27.  (Davis, CA)
  28.  (Los Angeles, CA)
  29.  (Boca Raton, FL)
  30.  (Newark, DE)
  31.  (Burlington, VT)
  32. (Bayside, NY)
  33.  (Stony Brook, NY)
  34.  (Storrs, CT)
  35.  (Towson, MD)
  36.  (Amherst, NY)
  37.  (Northridge, CA)
  38.  (Amherst, MA)
  39.  (Blacksburg, VA)
  40.  (San Francisco, CA)
  41.  (Santa Cruz, CA)
  42.  (Seattle, WA)
  43.  (Philadelphia, PA)
  44.  (Pittsburgh, PA)
  45.  (Eugene, OR)
  46.  (Kingston, ON, Canada)
  47.  (New York, NY)
  48.  (Lawrence, KS)
  49.  (Tampa, FL)
  50.  (Toronto, ON, Canada)
  51.  (Ft. Lauderdale, FL)
  52.  (Guelph, ON, Canada)
  53.  (Harrisonburg, VA)
  54.  (Waterloo, ON, Canada)
  55.  (Minneapolis, MN)
  56.  (Staten Island, NY)
  57.  (Oxford, OH)
  58.  (San Diego, CA)
  59.  (Oswego, NY)
  60.  (Toronto, ON, Canada)
Top 60 Private Universities by Jewish Population 
  1.  (Boston, MA)
  2.  (New York, NY)
  3.  (Washington, DC)
  4.  (Ithaca, NY)
  5.  (New Orleans, LA)
  6.  (New York, NY)
  7.  (Syracuse, NY)
  8.  (Coral Gables, FL)
  9.  (Los Angeles, CA)
  10.  (St. Louis, MO)
  11.  (Philadelphia, PA)
  12.  (Waltham, MA)
  13.  (Washington, DC)
  14.  (West Hartford, CT)
  15.  (New York, NY)
  16.  (Evanston, IL)
  17.  (Medford, MA)
  18.  (Atlanta, GA)
  19.  (Boston, MA)
  20.  (Nashville, TN)
  21.  (Providence, RI)
  22.  (Rochester, NY)
  23.  (Philadelphia, PA)
  24.  (New York, NY)
  25.  (Hempstead, NY)
  26.  (Chicago, IL)
  27.  (Cambridge, MA)
  28.  (Bethlehem, PA)
  29.  (New Haven, CT)
  30.  (Oberlin, OH)
  31.  (Durham, NC)
  32.  (Claremont, CA)
  33.  (Ithaca, NY)
  34.  (Cleveland, OH)
  35.  (Allentown, PA)
  36.  (Elon, NC)
  37.  (Boca Raton, FL)
  38.  (Stanford, CA)
  39.  (Poughkeepsie, NY)
  40.  (Saratoga Springs, NY)
  41.  (Princeton, NJ)
  42.  (Baltimore, MD)
  43.  (New York, NY)
  44.  (Chicago, IL)
  45. (Baltimore, MD)
  46.  (Hanover, NH)
  47.  (Irvine, CA)
  48.  (Washington, DC)
  49.  (Bronxville, NY)
  50.  (Worcester, MA)
  51.  (Waltham, MA)
  52.  (Pittsburgh, PA)
  53.  (Tampa, FL)
  54.  (Boston, MA)
  55.  (Cambridge, MA)
  56.  (Dallas, TX)
  57.  (Hamden, CT)
  58.  (Deland, FL)
  59.  (Amherst, MA)
  60.  (Chicago, IL)
Top 60 Schools Jews Choose (A breakdown by percentage)
The following are the top 60 schools with the largest percentage of Jewish students to the total undergraduate student population
  1. : 2,714 Jewish students, 100%
  2. : 158 Jewish students, 100%
  3. : 150 Jewish students, 100%
  4. : 1,600 Jewish students, 44%
  5. : 2,815 Jewish students, 41%
  6. : 850 Jewish students, 33%
  7. : 450 Jewish students, 31%
  8. : 1,500 Jewish students, 29%
  9. : 5,000 Jewish students, 28%
  10. : 400 Jewish students, 28%
  11. : 4,000 Jewish students, 28%
  12. : 3,700 Jewish students, 27%
  13. : 3,500 Jewish students, 27%
  14. : 3,000 Jewish students, 26%
  15. : 750 Jewish students, 26%
  16. : 613 Jewish students, 25%
  17. : 4,000 Jewish students, 25%
  18. : 1,500 Jewish students, 24%
  19. : 300 Jewish students, 24%
  20. : 1,750 Jewish students, 23%
  21. : 325 Jewish students, 23%
  22. : 1,200 Jewish students, 22%
  23. : 500 Jewish students, 21%
  24. : 3,000 Jewish students, 21%
  25. : 5,800 Jewish students, 20%
  26. : 1,600 Jewish students, 20%
  27. : 1,300 Jewish students, 19%
  28. : 6,500 Jewish students, 19%
  29. : 500 Jewish students, 19%
  30. : 2,000 Jewish students, 18%
  31. : 2,000 Jewish students, 18%
  32. : 120 Jewish students, 18%
  33. : 6,400 Jewish students, 18%
  34. : 400 Jewish students, 17%
  35. : 1,750 Jewish students, 17%
  36. : 2,500 Jewish students, 16%
  37. : 275 Jewish students, 16%
  38. : 800 Jewish students, 16%
  39. : 1,300 Jewish students, 16%
  40. : 4,500 Jewish students, 16%
  41. : 1,050 Jewish students, 15%
  42. : 1,050 Jewish students, 15%
  43. : 800 Jewish students, 15%
  44. : 1,500 Jewish students, 14%
  45. : 200 Jewish students, 14%
  46. : 1,000 Jewish students, 14%
  47. : 900 Jewish students, 14%
  48. : 825 Jewish students, 14%
  49. : 300 Jewish students, 14%
  50. : 3,500 Jewish students, 13%
  51. : 574 Jewish students, 13%
  52. : 300 Jewish students, 13%
  53. : 300 Jewish students, 13%
  54. : 4,200 Jewish students, 13%
  55. : 2,850 Jewish students, 13%
  56. : 2,000 Jewish students, 13%
  57. : 850 Jewish students, 12%
  58. : 2,250 Jewish students, 12%
  59. : 630 Jewish students, 12%
  60. : 803 Jewish students, 12%

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