Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yeshiva University is a private university in New York City, with six campuses in New York and one in Israel. Founded in 1886, it is classified as a very high research activity university and it ranked as 50th in the US among national universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2008 and among 400 in world by THES—QS World University Rankings. Yeshiva University's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, and Sy Syms School of Business "offer a unique dual curriculum inspired by the Modern Orthodox Judaism philosophy of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge")" — self-claimedly “combining the finest, contemporary academic education with the timeless teachings of Torah.”