List of rabbinical schools

Following is a listing of rabbinical schools, organized by denomination. The emphasis of the training will differ correspondingly:
Orthodox semikhah centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha, while in other programs, the emphasis may shift to "the other functions of a modern rabbi such as preaching, counseling, and pastoral work.” Conservative yeshivot occupy a position midway, in that their training places more emphasis on halacha and Talmud than other non-Orthodox programs.

Reform

In Reform Judaism, rabbinic programs span five years and incorporate a master's degree. Studies are mandated in pastoral care, the historical development of Judaism, academic biblical criticism, in addition to the study of traditional rabbinic texts. Rabbinical students also are required to gain practical rabbinic experience by working at a congregation as a rabbinic intern during each year of study from year one onwards. All Reform seminaries ordain women and LGBTQ people as rabbis and cantors.

The seminary of Reform Judaism in the United States is Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. It has campuses in Cincinnati, New York City, and Los Angeles.
In Israel, the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew Union College is the only seminary for training Reform Jewish clergy.
In the United Kingdom, the Reform and Liberal movements maintain Leo Baeck College in London for the training and ordination of rabbis.
In Germany the Abraham Geiger College trains and ordains candidates for the Progressive rabbinate.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, the Reform Movement maintains the Instituto Iberoamericano de Formación Rabinica Reformista.
Conservative

institutions, in ordaining men, women and LGBT people as rabbis and cantors, provide an "integrated program" of academic learning and professional development, spanning five or six years.
In addition to knowledge and mastery of the study of Talmud and halakhah, Conservative semikhah also requires that its rabbinical students receive intensive training in Tanakh, classical biblical commentaries, biblical criticism, Midrash, Kabbalah and Hasidut, the historical development of Judaism from antiquity to modernity, Jewish ethics, the halakhic methodology of Conservative responsa, and classical and modern works of Jewish theology and philosophy.
Conservative programs include also synagogue administration, pastoral care, chaplaincy, non-profit management, and navigating the modern world in a Jewish context, and incorporate professional placement. Students are required to study for one year - usually the program's third - in Israel.
Ordination is granted at:

The Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York
Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
Budapest University of Jewish Studies in Budapest, Hungary
Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam
Seminario Rabinico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Orthodox

are institutions of Torah study generally, "Torah lishma", and are not focused on the training of rabbis per se. Their curricula emphasize Talmud along with the study of halacha ; if less emphasized, Tanakh and Jewish thought / Musar / Hasidic philosophy are also studied.
Rabbinical training proper - often culminating up to a decade of study - generally takes one of three forms.
Many yeshivot host a specific Rabbinic kollel, or other program, focusing on Semikhah ; these are then an integral part of the yeshiva. These programs build students' ability to "pasken", i.e. decide cases in Halacha, extending and relying on the textual and analytical skills built over the several prior years of Talmud study; this, in parallel, includes preparation of the specific sections of Shulchan Aruch required for certification-testing.
See and § Talmud study.
These programs span 2–4 years, depending on the topics covered. Alongside their Rabbinic studies, students here typically participate in the Yeshiva's senior Talmud shiur.
Institutions:

Most Religious Zionist Rabbis are trained at Mercaz HaRav and / or the various Hesder Yeshivot typically preparing for the "Semikhah of the Rabbanut"
Haredi yeshivot in Israel generally do not offer a "semikha program" per se, although students often prepare to be tested by the Rosh Yeshiva. Well known Ashkenazi yeshivot are Mir and Ponevezh; the leading Sephardi yeshiva is Porat Yosef. Students here also, often sit the Rabbanut exams.
In the US, well known Haredi semachot are through "Rabbinical Seminary of America", Telz, and Ner Yisroel.
In Europe Gateshead Talmudical College is probably the best known; others include the Yeshiva of Aix-les-Bains and Torat Chayim in Moscow; elsewhere, Yeshiva Gedolah in Sydney, Yeshiva Gedolah of Johannesburg.
Many Hasidic dynasties have their own yeshivot - see for example under Satmar, Belz, Bobov, Pupa, and Breslov - focusing on general learning as opposed to semicha, which is granted on a limited basis as at Charedi yeshivot.
The Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidim operate the global Tomchei Tmimim network, many of which, in contrast, include a semicha program. Since the 1950's, unlike in other streams, semicha is obtained by the bulk of Chabad yeshiva students: the Lubavitcher Rebbe instructed students to obtain ordination before getting married; formally studying kashrut and shabbos before starting a home; although, this often with a more practical orientation, and spanning one year, the final of four.

Some institutions specifically focus on rabbinic training; these are essentially "post-graduate", admitting students with an advanced Yeshiva background. These programs typically prepare all of the above topics, and extend the curriculum to other applicable areas of Jewish law ; these often place a parallel emphasis on "hashkafa", i.e. a systematic discussion of contemporary issues in light of Jewish philosophy;
they may also offer some element of "practical Rabbinics", always secondary, however. These programs average 3 years, but may be up to 5 years.
Institutions well known for their Rabbinic training include:

In Israel: the Meretz Kollel, Ohr Torah Stone's Straus Rabbinical Seminary, and Machon Ariel which trains Rabbis and Dayanim ; Kollel Eretz Hemda trains Dayanim; there are several specialized kollels preparing candidates for the Chief Rabbinate Dayanut test. See a more complete listing in the Hebrew, at category כוללי אברכים בארץ ישראל. The Machon HaGavoah LeTorah at Bar-Ilan University offers a Halacha program, and subsequent Rabbinical training, to students with a Yeshiva background.
Israel-based programs preparing Rabbis for Diaspora communities: The Shehebar Sephardic Center, The Jerusalem Kollel, Ohr Somayach's Ohr La'Golah, Aish HaTorah's semicha program, The Center for Kehilla Development, Ner Le'Elef, Mizrachi's Musmachim program as well as its Manhigut Toranit program, Institute for Community Rabbis in the Diaspora, and similarly, Eretz Hemda.
In Europe, the leading institutions are Rabbinerseminar zu Berlin and Judith Lady Montefiore College
Most American Modern Orthodox Rabbis are trained at RIETS, the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and some at Hebrew Theological College. A number earn Semicha in Israel at Yeshivat HaMivtar.
A small number of Rabbis are ordained at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a more liberal "Open Orthodox" Yeshiva in New York. Its sister institution, Yeshiva Maharat, controversially ordains women Rabbis; one other Orthodox Yeshiva, Beit Midrash Har'el, also ordains women, and similarly with some controversy.
Common among Hassidim are Kollelim, such as Mechon L'Hoyroa and The "Chicago Chassidishe Kollel", among others, although they are many times not affiliated with any specific Hasidic sect. These Kollelim typically focus on Halacha, and will usually have their members tested by leading Poskim.
Various Chabad institutions are located globally, and include the Rabbinical College of America, Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand, Rabbinical College of Canada, Rabbinical College of Pretoria; the preparation and testing here, certifying community Rabbis, is standard, and thus more extensive and in more depth than at Tomchei Tmimim above.

Outside of these, it is common also for a student to prepare material independently, so as to be tested by a well known Rosh Yeshiva or posek, so called "private semicha"
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This Semikhah certifies solely the holder's ability, and thus right, to pasken.
Recently, several institutions are established around semicha-testing ; these publish syllabi, with a corresponding learning program, and may provide online training,
and are then a hybrid of Yeshiva and private;
they are sometimes referred to as "on-line semicha programs."
Not intended to produce community Rabbis, and testing a single Halakha-topic at a time, in some cases, the study-program can be completed in one year.

Semicha-testing programs: Pirchei Shoshanim, Iyun Halacha, Chonen Daas, Virtual Halacha Program, Kinyan Hilchos Shabbos, Nefesh HaChaim
Chabad programs: The Institute For Rabbinical Studies, Machon Smicha, HSSP, Machon Limud Halacha, Havineini Institute
WebYeshiva, a fully online Yeshiva, offers semikha culminating a four year Halakha-program.
Other denominations
The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is located in Pennsylvania; it ordains women as well as men as rabbis and cantors. The first three years of the five-year program cover “Jewish beliefs, texts and traditions” - as approached by Reconstructionist Judaism - and include a year of study in Israel; the final two years center on an “immersive field education”. In 2015 the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College voted to accept rabbinical students in interfaith relationships, making Reconstructionist Judaism the first type of Judaism to officially allow rabbis in relationships with non-Jewish partners.
Jewish Renewal has an ordination program, ALEPH, but no central campus. The program entails 60 credits of graduate level study, over 5 years, in the areas of Talmud and Halakha, Tanach, philosophy, history, and Hassidut and Kabbalah; the plurality of the courses are in practical Rabbinics, here preparing graduates to function as “Kli Kodesh” or "vessels of holiness". ALEPH ordains women as well as men as rabbis and cantors. It also ordains openly LGBT people.
Humanistic Judaism has the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, which currently has two centers of activity: one in Jerusalem and the other in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Both ordain women as well as men as rabbis, and do not ordain cantors, though they did so previously. Both ordain openly LGBTQIA people. Ordination requires 62 credit hours, completion of a master's degree, and a Rabbinical internship and practicum.
The Union for Traditional Judaism, an offshoot of the right-wing of Conservative Judaism, operated the non-denominational Institute of Traditional Judaism, also known as "The Metivta"; ITJ ran from 1991 through 2010. The Metivta provided a traditional Semikhah Program for men only, focused on Talmud and codes, as well the advanced Semikha Yadin Yadin. Graduates of the rabbinical program were hired by both Conservative and Modern Orthodox synagogues, although the RCA did not recognize the ordination. ITJ did not ordain openly LGBT men. The positioning of UTJ is sometimes described as “Conservadox”.

List of rabbinical schools

Reform

Conservative

Orthodox

Other denominations