Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
About
The Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia is a Haredi Litvish yeshiva in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its heads of school are Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rabbi Shimon Yehudah Svei and Rabbi Sholom Kaminetsky.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients here graduate at a 26.2-point higher rate than non-Pell students, unusual and worth a closer look.
Source: IPEDS Graduation Rates (GR) — Pell/SSL cohort, 2024 cohort.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, Accreditation Commission
Action history · 4
- Dec 2025Renewal of AccreditationAssociation of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, Accreditation Commission
- Feb 2022Renewal of AccreditationAssociation of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, Accreditation Commission
- May 2020Renewal of AccreditationAssociation of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, Accreditation Commission
- Jan 2011Renewal of AccreditationAssociation of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools, Accreditation Commission
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 45 students received $412K in Pell grants.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 0 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 13.2% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
Academic programs at Meterware
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Meterware vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Meterware selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectTalmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia | 50% | — | 112 | $11,008 | — |
| 33% | 57.6% | 132 | $6,838 | — | |
| 59% | 94.8% | 765 | $4,543 | — | |
| 53% | 78.9% | 206 | $10,909 | — | |
| 58% | 88.9% | 112 | $10,273 | — | |
| 10% | 53.8% | 124 | $9,766 | — | |
| 20% | — | 419 | $672 | — | |
| 26% | — | 168 | $13,075 | — | |
| 22% | 56.3% | 156 | $12,875 | — | |
Johnson University Florida | 24% | 23.3% | — | $22,226 | — |
| 63% | — | 205 | $3,822 | — | |
| 33% | 100.0% | 131 | $16,515 | — | |
| 46% | 100.0% | 160 | $24,213 | — | |
| 67% | — | 122 | — | — | |
| — | — | 527 | $18,237 | — | |
| 41% | 100.0% | 232 | $32,594 | — | |
| 36% | — | 114 | $6,223 | — | |
| 39% | 97.9% | 602 | $2,840 | — | |
| 22% | 77.2% | 400 | $10,755 | — | |
| 58% | — | 2,241 | $6,640 | — | |
| 70% | — | 2,957 | $4,156 | — | |
| 100% | 98.0% | 161 | $11,673 | — | |
| 22% | — | 226 | $5,646 | — | |
| 80% | 73.7% | 499 | $11,588 | — | |
| 74% | 70.1% | 515 | $22,870 | — | |
| 12% | 58.2% | 163 | $14,959 | — | |
| — | 36.7% | 152 | $10,753 | — | |
| 30% | 100.0% | 132 | $12,217 | — | |
| 31% | 44.2% | 227 | $5,356 | — | |
| 43% | — | 223 | $11,549 | — | |
| 69% | 93.7% | 1,389 | $8,929 | — | |
| Peer group median | 41% | 78.1% | 206 | $10,832 |
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