Mount Angel Seminary

Private · Moderately Selective · OR

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School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationOR · West

SettingRural

Undergrads38

Student:faculty6:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate50%

6-yr grad rate50%

Drop-out rate0%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$31k

Out-of-state tuition$31k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity71%

Gender diversity0%

International5.3%

IdentityRoman Catholic

Overview

Mount Angel Seminary, at Mount Angel Abbey in Oregon's Willamette Valley, is a Benedictine Catholic seminary and one of the older seminaries in the American West. Run by the Benedictine monks of the abbey, it forms Catholic seminarians through sequential study in philosophy and theology alongside monastic-influenced spiritual formation.

Campus & student life

The seminary sits atop a butte overlooking the Willamette Valley, sharing its hilltop campus with the working Benedictine abbey itself, which gives daily life a distinctly monastic rhythm built around communal prayer alongside academic study. The campus library, designed by the noted architect Alvar Aalto, is a well-known piece of modernist architecture and a notable landmark in its own right.

Worth knowing

The abbey's active monastic community shapes seminary life more directly than at a typical diocesan seminary — students live alongside working monks and participate in a schedule oriented around communal prayer as much as coursework. The Aalto-designed library is a genuine architectural draw independent of the seminary's religious mission.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate100%

Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot used

Rec letters3

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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