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You are a student thinking about yeshiva, seminary or college

The year in Israel, then the degree, and nobody prints the price of either where you can read it. This is what each of those years actually costs, who pays for the institutions you are choosing between, and what the two brackets say when you answer for yourself.

Answer for yourself first

Nobody prints these prices where you can read them, so the brackets ask you the questions and price the answer.

Map of the United States with a circle for every college in the database, sized by how well it matches the reader’s answers Start here Campus Bracket Answer eight questions and 246 colleges narrow to a Final Four. Two hundred and forty-six colleges from the NACAC Jewish Schools and Jewish Students database, on one map. Eight questions about cost, distance, size and Jewish life move every circle, and the last four standing are yours. Open the tool
Ranked cards for university cities scored on rent, the size of the observant community, kosher food and the strength of the program Best Graduate School Cities Forty-eight university cities, weighted the way your family weighs them. Open Seventeen Israeli institutions ranked by what a year would cost, with the ones American aid cannot reach marked Israel Bracket Seventeen Israeli institutions, priced against what your family is willing to become. Open

Read these three first

Short, and each one answers a question you already have. They run from the plainest to the most technical.

Stacked bars for five groups of Israel programs showing how many print this year’s tuition, an older price, a directory listing, or nothing at all Higher education · 15 min read

What does a gap year in Israel cost?

About $36,000 for the average Orthodox program that prints its tuition, before the flight. Of eighty-five yeshivot, seminaries and year programs, sixteen print this year's price where a family can read it and fifty-two print nothing at all.

 Bars for seventeen campuses showing the posted price of a year against the estimated bill after aid for the reader’s income Higher education

How much will university cost?

Every college posts a price and almost no one pays it. Seventeen campuses with an Orthodox Union JLIC couple, opened one clue at a time, from the posted price to what a year actually costs a family at your income.

 Bar chart of fifteen ultra-Orthodox yeshivas showing what share of revenue came from the federal Pell Grant and New York’s TAP Higher education · 11 min read

How can these ultra-Orthodox yeshivas exist?

Most of the families cannot pay tuition and most of the schools have almost no donors. Fifteen ultra-Orthodox yeshivas in New York and New Jersey, read through their own reports to Washington and Albany, where two government grants add up to most of the budget.

Then the rest of it

Longer, more technical, and worth it once the shape is familiar.

Not quite you?

We’re newly married and planning ahead We’re a family looking for a more affordable community We’re weighing a move to Israel I sit on a school board, or fund one We’re deciding where to give