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Yeshiva Derech Chaim

Brooklyn, New York Private nonprofit 4-year Large city

Overview

Yeshiva Derech Chaim is a private nonprofit four-year institution in Brooklyn, New York. The campus sits in a large city. It enrolled 147 students in fall 2024, including 115 undergraduates and 32 graduate students.

Yeshiva Derech Chaim offers associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees across 1 program, the largest being Talmudic Studies. It awarded 33 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

75% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 8 to 1.

Mission

Yeshiva Derech Chaim strives to produce a student who aims to reach for the highest level of his personal potential. Great emphasis in the educational process is placed on scholarship, character building, self-discipline, diligence in pursuing educational achievement, and strong commitment to true values and ideals. Yeshiva Derech Chaim feels that students who are well educated in Torah and Talmud and possess high moral and ethical principles will be great assets to the community at large, preferably as educators and Rabbis, but as professionals and businessmen as well.

Mission statement as reported by Yeshiva Derech Chaim

Key figures

147
Students enrolled
75%
First-year retention
33
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
1
Programs and majors
8:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Campus

Program levels

AssociateBachelorMasterPhD

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.

First-year retention, full-time students
75%
Student-to-faculty ratio
8:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

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

Bachelor's degrees
13
Associate degrees
20

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
147
Undergraduates, fall 2024
115
Graduate students, fall 2024
32
Full-time, fall 2024
97%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
152
Undergraduates, 2024-25
121
Graduate students, 2024-25
31
Full-time, 2024-25
98%
Size category
Under 1,000 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
89%
International (U.S. nonresident)
11%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

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

Campus and services

Setting
Large city
Academic calendar
Semester
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institutions
President
Rabbi Chaim Rennert
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling

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