As Yale's Jewish Population Declines to 1940s Quota Levels, University Leaders Say Jewish Community is ‘Thriving’

Yale College's Jewish enrollment is down from 16.4 percent in the 2010s to just 9.5 percent in 2024, a level comparable to the 1940s, when the Ivy League school imposed quotas aimed at excluding alien Jews from campus, according to data from the Yale Chaplain's Office. Yale leaders said they aren’t concerned by the figures and that the school's diminished Jewish community is thriving.