Founded in 1957, classes are held at Yeshiva University’s Wilf campus, in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and Beren campus, in New York’s Murray Hill neighborhood.
The Wurzweiler School was founded to serve the needs of Jewish communal agencies for well-educated social workers.
This led to its involvement in starting schools of social work at Bar Ilan University in Israel and in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
[citation needed] Previous deans of school were Sheldon Gelman[2] and Carmen Ortiz Hendricks.
[3] As of 2024, it is ranked tied for 77th out of 319 schools for social work in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.