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Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma

Union, New Jersey Private nonprofit 4-year Large suburb

Overview

Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma is a private nonprofit four-year institution based in Union, New Jersey. Its campus is in a large suburban area. Fall 2024 enrollment was 47 students.

Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma offers associate degrees and bachelor's degrees across 1 program, the largest being Talmudic Studies. It awarded 24 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

56% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 12 to 1.

Mission

Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma has established certain and specific goals to facilitate the implementation of its mission. To provide an intensive and rigorous program of classical Talmudic studies, which are a composite of Talmud, Bible, Jewish Law and Tradition, Ethics and Philosophy, and constitute the foundation of all Jewish learning and scholarship. To teach students how to study Talmud independently together with a body of interpretive literature that spans more than 12 centuries of scholarship, which results, as a by-product, in the development of the intellectual skills needed for all other facets of their lives.

Mission statement as reported by Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma

Key figures

47
Students enrolled
56%
First-year retention
24
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
1
Programs and majors
12:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Campus

Program levels

AssociateBachelor

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
56%
Student-to-faculty ratio
12:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

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

Bachelor's degrees
10
Associate degrees
14

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
47
Undergraduates, fall 2024
47
Full-time, fall 2024
100%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
56
Full-time, 2024-25
100%
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
86%
International (U.S. nonresident)
14%

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 suburb
Academic calendar
Semester
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institutions
Administrator
Rabbi Michael Eli Lang
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Credit for life experience

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