#112, overall score 48/100
Fun Fact:
Students at Goucher created the popular campus game Humans vs. Zombies.
CAMPUS INFORMATION
- Location: Towson, Md.
- Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Campus type: Suburb
- Public/Private: Private
- Liberal Arts: Yes
- Undergraduate enrollment: 1,473
- Jewish undergraduate enrollment: 450
- Jewish population share: 31%
- Student origin: 35% in-state / 65% out-of-state
- Student newspaper: The Quindecim
- NCAA Division: III
- NCAA team: Gophers
- Ultimate Frisbee teams: Guilty Swallows / All You Can Eat
COST & AID Score: 3.33/15
- Score: 3.33/15
- Tuition: $43,440
- Room & board costs: $12,670
- Average annual scholarship/grant package: $27,416
- Average loan debt: $33,702
ACADEMICS Score: 5/20
- Score: 5/20
- Acceptance rate: 79%
- Student/faculty ratio: 10:1
- Median SAT range: 1050-1260
- Jewish Studies program: Yes
- Jewish Studies minor: Yes
ISRAEL Score: 12/20
- Score: 12/20
- Size of Birthright trip: 13
- School-approved study abroad program in Israel: Yes
- Israel Studies center: No
- Israel-related clubs: Go-pher Israel
- BDS vote in last four years: Never Introduced
SAFETY Score: 9/11
- Score: 9/11
- Anti-Semitic incidents in 2017: 0
- Campus crime rate: 9.21/1,000 students (high)
- City crime rate: 65.59/1,000 people (high)
- LGBT center: Yes
JEWISH LIFE Score: 18.67/34
- Score: 18.67/34
- Hillel: Goucher Hillel
- Chabad: The Rohr Chabad Jewish Center at Towson and Goucher
- OU-JLIC: No
- Jewish fraternities: No
- Jewish sororities: No
- Can you get kosher food on the school meal plan? Yes
- Average Shabbat attendance – Chabad: 60
- Synagogues within 10 miles: 19 (10 Orthodox, 5 Conservative, 4 Reform)
- Eruv: No
- Most famous Jewish alum: Jonah Goldberg
- Where do Jewish students come from? All over the country.
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