2024 Best Jewish Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
84Judaic Studies Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in jewish studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #445 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for jewish studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 84 degrees in jewish studies to qualified students.
The judaic studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Jewish Studies rankings. We derive our Best Overall Jewish Studies School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Jewish Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Jewish Studies in the Great Lakes Region
The schools below may not offer all types of judaic studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It's hard to beat University of Chicago if you wish to pursue a degree in jewish studies. Located in the city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UChicago is a great university overall.
There were roughly 2 jewish studies students who graduated with this degree at UChicago in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in jewish studies has to check out Ohio State University - Main Campus. Ohio State is a very large public university located in the large city of Columbus. This university ranks 2nd out of 96 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.More information about a degree in jewish studies from Ohio State University - Main Campus
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in jewish studies. Located in the large city of Milwaukee, UWM is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 19th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were roughly 5 jewish studies students who graduated with this degree at UWM in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).