Yeshiva University climbed slightly in the “national universities” category of the 2025 U.S. News & World Report “best colleges” rankings to No. 98, up from No. 105 in last year’s ranking.
The Washington, D.C.-based publication ranks colleges and universities based on data from the prior year, so the 2025 rankings draw on information that schools self-reported and filed with federal and state agencies in 2024. The “best colleges” rankings are of undergraduate programs. U.S. News ranks graduate schools separately.
Yeshiva is tied for No. 98 with six other schools—Florida International University, Gonzaga University, Rutgers University-Camden, Temple University, the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Iowa. As of fall 2023, Yeshiva had an undergraduate enrollment of 2,319, while enrollments of undergraduates at the other six schools with which Yeshiva tied ranged, according to U.S. News, from 3,922 to 44,045.
The Yeshiva University Commentator, a student publication, reported in 2023 that the school was tied with 10 other schools that year for No. 105. That ranking represented a drop of 38 numbers in the rankings, the paper reported.
“YU has fallen in college rankings before. In 2017, YU dropped 28 spots to 94th place after spending almost two decades mostly between the 40s and low 50s,” per the Commentator. “In 2019, YU was ranked 97th, before recovering in recent years.”
A spokesperson for the university, who declined to be named, told JNS that Yeshiva “is the No. 2 ranked national university in the country for universities with undergraduate schools of 3,000 or fewer students, right behind CalTech.”
“We are ranked No. 16 in the country for teacher-to-student ratio, reflecting the individual attention we offer each student,” the spokesperson said. “We are ranked No. 1 in New York City for value, highlighting the extraordinary return on investment for each student.”
“In six years, we have doubled our graduate school population, adding more than 20 new degrees and just recently announced our new campus for health sciences in midtown, in one of the largest real estate deals in New York City this year,” the university told JNS. “Our academic excellence and values-based education is driving our incredible growth and distinguishes us as the nation’s flagship Jewish university.”
