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Beth Medrash Govoha

Lakewood, New Jersey Private nonprofit 4-year Small city

Overview

Beth Medrash Govoha is a private nonprofit four-year institution based in Lakewood, New Jersey. The campus sits in a small city. Fall 2024 enrollment was 9,657, made up of 4,027 undergraduates and 5,630 graduate students.

Beth Medrash Govoha offers certificates, bachelor's degrees, and master's degrees across 1 program, the largest being Talmudic Studies. It awarded 2,119 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

The student-to-faculty ratio is 19 to 1.

Mission

Beth Medrash Govoha is an institution of Higher Education that specializes in advanced Talmudic scholarship. Its primary objective is to produce Talmudic scholars and to thereby provide firm, lifelong foundations for its students, graduates and their communities. Beth Medrash Govoha strives to offer the broadest Talmudic curriculum available in any such institute in the world, providing its students with the opportunity to study almost any area in the widest spectrum of Talmudic study. Beth Medrash Govoha is dedicated to helping its students achieve the highest level of scholarship along with intensive commitment to academic excellence in every area of Talmudic Studies.

Mission statement as reported by Beth Medrash Govoha

Key figures

9,657
Students enrolled
2,119
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
1
Programs and majors
19:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Program levels

CertificateBachelorMaster

Programs and majors offered 1

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Philosophy and Religious Studies 1

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

Student-to-faculty ratio
19:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Bachelor's degrees
859
Master's degrees
609
Post-master's certificates
651

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
9,657
Undergraduates, fall 2024
4,027
Graduate students, fall 2024
5,630
Full-time, fall 2024
87%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
10,800
Undergraduates, 2024-25
4,885
Graduate students, 2024-25
5,915
Full-time, 2024-25
80%
Size category
5,000 to 9,999 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
0%
Men
100%
White
99%
International (U.S. nonresident)
1%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
0%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Small city
Academic calendar
Semester
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institutions
President
Rabbi Aryeh M. Kotler
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling

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