<p>for your information
I found this information in a Princeton Review book “Hillel Guide to Jewish Life on Campus”. Colleges with more than 10% Jewish students, undergrad plus grad. I can’t vouch for the accuracy. Round numbers suggest estimates.</p>
<p>alphabetical by state</p>
<p>U of Arizona 11%
Cal St Northridge 14%
Pitzer 24%
Occidental 10%
San Diego St 10%
Stanford 15%
UC Berkeley 13%
UCLA 12%
UC San Diego 14%
UC Santa Barbara 11%
UC Santa Cruz 20%
U Denver 14%
Connecticut C 11%
U Hartford 18%
Wesleyan U 21%
Yale U 39%
American U 23%
George Washington U 19%
Georgetown U 23%
Lynn U 11%
Nova Southeastern 20%
U Florida 11%
U Miami 15%
U Tampa 14%
Emory 24%
Northwestern 14%
U Chicago 16%
Earlham 10%
Tulane 22%
Goucher 25%
U Maryland at Baltimore 18%
U Maryland College Park 22%
Amherst 16%
Babson 26%
Boston U 20%
Brandeis 57%
Clark 18%
Curry C 41%
Emerson C 23%
Hampshire C 17%
Harvard 26%
Lesley C 40%
Simmons C 33%
Tufts 33%
U Mass Amherst 13%
Wheelock C 10%
Williams C 12%
U Michigan 17%
Western Michigan U 10%
Macalester 10%
Washington U St Louis 26%
New England C 28%
Drew U 11%
Fairleigh Dickinson U Madison 13%
Monmouth C 12%
Princeton U 12%
Richard Stockton C of NJ 14%
Rider U 10%
Rutgers Douglas 17%
Stevens Institute of Tech 13%
Adelphi 12%
Alfred U 10%
Bard C 16%
SUNY Binghamton 38%
Colgate 17%
Columbia 32%
Cooper 11%
Cornell U 16%
CUNY Baruch 13%
CUNY Brooklyn C 24%
CUNY Hunter 18%
CUNY Queens 38%
Hamilton 10%
Hobart & Wm Smith 17%
Hofstra 21%
Ithaca C 15%
NYU 32%
Pratt Institute 15%
Skidmore 20%
SUNY Albany 34%
SUNY Buffalo 13%
SUNY Stony Brook 17%
SUNY New Paltz 15%
SUNY Oswego 15%
SUNY Plattsburgh 12%
SUNY Purchase 14%
Syracuse U 17%
Touro C 76%
Union C 20%
U of Rochester 13%
Vassar 18%
Yeshiva 69%
Duke 18%
Case Western 13%
Oberlin 28%
Reed 38%
Bryn Mawr 17%
Carnegie Mellon 16%
Dickinson 15%
Franklin and Marshall 12%
Haverford 27%
Lehigh 13%
Muhlenberg 25%
Penn St University Park 10%
Penn St Abington 40%
Swarthmore 20%
U Pennsylvania 39%
Brown U 22%
Johnson and Wales 10%
Roger Williams 11%
U Rhode Island 14%
UVA 10%
Marquette 10%
U Wisconsin Madison 11%</p>
<p>First of all, the percentages without stating actual student population doesn’t give much information. Second, I know at least some of the information you posted is inaccurate. You indicate Georgetown has 23% Jewish students–no way. On the Hillel website, the undergraduate population is 6500 and the Jewish population is 600–I know this anecdotally because my son’s best friend attends.</p>
<p>For those who are interested, you can go to the Hillel website and choose “Guide to Jewish Life on Campus” to get this info.</p>
<p>dg5020-
I double-checked and that is what it said about Georgetown in the book. Don’t forget, this is undergrad plus grad. About one third of the grad students at Georgetown are jewish.</p>
<p>The Hillel website is more accurate than the book. The book was put out by Hillel some time ago and then they switched to the online format. Some of the information in the book is not totally up to date. We are an Orthodox Jewish family so getting this kind of information as well as info on kosher, services, etc. was a very big part of son’s college search.</p>
<p>I’m from Houston. I have no idea yet where son will end up as he is busy finishing his applications. With one or two exceptions, he’s looking out of state. We’ll just have to see how things go…</p>
<p>the sources posted above say UCLA has around 11 or 12% jewish students, but when translated to numbers, that’s about 4000 students, which is more than the total population at other universities! and yes, it does feel like there are a lot of jewish students at UCLA.</p>
<p>The shear percentage of Jewish students tells you very little about the Jewish life on campus.<br>
To find out about Jewish life on campus, you have to ask a lot of questions. We found that for many schools, their Hillel often made Jewish life sound much more vibrant than it was - always ask - “and how many students typically attend that activity?” when you are told about some wonderful programming by a school’s Hillel.
The percentage of Jewish students who become actively engaged in Jewish life on-campus will vary among schools - and it may surprise you as to how low it can be.
Each student has to decide what about Jewish life on campus is important to him/her - eg, on-campus services, kosher food, holiday activities, Israel programming, a chance to socialize with other Jewish students, social action programming, etc. And then ask a ton of questions to see if any given school meets those needs.</p>
<p>Oh and as for those stats - I am having trouble believing Yeshiva University supposedly has 31% non-Jews!! – unless they are including grad programs like Einstein Medical School – in which case it just goes to show you how misleading those stats can be.</p>