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Mount Angel Seminary

Saint Benedict, Oregon Private nonprofit 4-year Rural area

Overview

Mount Angel Seminary is a private nonprofit four-year institution in Saint Benedict, Oregon. Its campus is in a rural area. It enrolled 127 students in fall 2024, including 41 undergraduates and 86 graduate students. Its religious affiliation is Roman Catholic.

Mount Angel Seminary offers certificates, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees across 5 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Philosophy, Theology, and Divinity/Ministry. It awarded 22 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

100% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 6 to 1.

Mission

Mount Angel Seminary, an apostolate of the Benedictine monks of Mount Angel Abbey, is a school whose primary purpose is the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral formation of men for the Roman Catholic priesthood. The Seminary is comprised of a College of Liberal Arts and a Graduate School of Theology, which also offers theological education to qualified laymen and women. The Seminary’s programs adhere to the norms established by the Holy See and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as stated in the Program of Priestly Formation. (Approved by the Seminary Board of Directors)

Mission statement as reported by Mount Angel Seminary

Key figures

127
Students enrolled
100%
First-year retention
22
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
5
Programs and majors
6:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Campus

Program levels

CertificateBachelorMasterPhD

Programs and majors offered 5

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Theology and Religious Vocations 4
Philosophy and Religious Studies 1

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

First-year retention, full-time students
100%
Student-to-faculty ratio
6:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Bachelor's degrees
6
Master's degrees
13
Other doctoral degrees
3

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
127
Undergraduates, fall 2024
41
Graduate students, fall 2024
86
Full-time, fall 2024
72%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
134
Undergraduates, 2024-25
43
Graduate students, 2024-25
91
Full-time, 2024-25
72%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
3%
Men
97%
White
39%
Hispanic or Latino
28%
Black or African American
2%
Asian
12%
Two or more races
5%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
2%
International (U.S. nonresident)
11%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Students studying fully online
0%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Rural area
Academic calendar
Semester
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institutions
President-Rector
Very Rev. Jeff Eirvin
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Accepts AP credit

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