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Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary

Los Angeles, California Private nonprofit 4-year Large city

Overview

Located in Los Angeles, California, Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary is a private nonprofit four-year institution. The campus sits in a large city. It enrolled 163 students in fall 2024.

Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary offers bachelor's degrees across 1 program, the largest being Talmudic Studies. It awarded 15 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

95% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 12 to 1.

Mission

The mission of the institution is to provide students with a program of intensive, postsecondary Talmudic Studies and rabbinical training, leading to a Bachelor of Rabbinical Studies Degree. Accordingly, the course of study offered at Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad is essentially comparable to the curriculum of any postsecondary Talmudic or Rabbinical college in this country. The main difference however, is the important focus in our curriculum on the study of Chabad Philosophy.

Mission statement as reported by Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad West Coast Talmudical Seminary

Key figures

163
Students enrolled
95%
First-year retention
15
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

Bachelor

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
95%
Student-to-faculty ratio
12:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

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

Bachelor's degrees
15

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
163
Undergraduates, fall 2024
163
Full-time, fall 2024
100%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
163
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
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
Large city
Academic calendar
Semester
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institutions
CEO
Rabbi Ezra Schochet
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling

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