Roman Catholic universities and colleges in the United States
Encyclopedia
There are 244 Catholic universities and colleges in the United States. They make up a significant number within the whole amount of Catholic universities and colleges
Catholic University
A Catholic University is a private university run by the Catholic Church or by Catholic organizations like religious institutes. Those with closer ties to the Holy See are called pontifical universities....

 in the world.

Catholic Honor Society

Delta Epsilon Sigma
Delta Epsilon Sigma
Delta Epsilon Sigma is a national scholastic honor society that was established in 1939 for students of Catholic universities and colleges in the United States. The society was founded at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa in 1939 by Father Fitzgerald. Requirements for membership are as follows...

 is the official national scholastic honor society
Honor society
In the United States, an honor society is a rank organization that recognizes excellence among peers. Numerous societies recognize various fields and circumstances. The Order of the Arrow, for example, is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America...

 for student
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...

s, faculty, and alumni of college
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...

s and universities
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 with a Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

 tradition.

Augustinian (Hermits of St. Augustine) Official Site

  1. Merrimack College
    Merrimack College
    Merrimack College is an independent college in the Roman Catholic, Augustinian tradition located in North Andover, Massachusetts, north of Boston, Massachusetts. It offers undergraduate degrees in business, education, science, engineering, and the liberal arts...

     (North Andover, MA) Official Site
  2. Villanova University
    Villanova University
    Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States...

     (Villanova, PA) Official Site

Assumptionists
Assumptionists
The Augustinians of the Assumption constitute a congregation of Catholic religious , founded in Nîmes, southern France, by Fr. Emmanuel d'Alzon in 1845, initially approved by Rome in 1857 and definitively approved in 1864 . The current Rule of Life of the congregation draws its inspiration from...

 (Augustinians of the Assumption) Official Site

  1. Assumption College
    Assumption College
    Assumption College is a private, Roman Catholic, liberal arts college located on 185 acres in Worcester, Massachusetts. Assumption has an enrollment of about 2,117 undergraduates...

     (Worcester, MA) Official Site

Basilian
Basilian
Basilian may refer to one of the following.* Basilian monk of the Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic Churches* The Congregation of St. Basil, a Latin-rite order of priests of the Roman Catholic Church....

 (Congregation of St. Basil
Congregation of St. Basil
The Basilian Fathers, also known as The Congregation of Saint Basil, is an international order of Catholic priests and students studying for the priesthood, who focus on education and ministering through oratories....

) Official Site

  1. University of St. Thomas (Houston, TX) Official Site

Benedictine
Benedictine
Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 (Order of Saint Benedict
Order of Saint Benedict
The Order of Saint Benedict is a Roman Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of St. Benedict. Within the order, each individual community maintains its own autonomy, while the organization as a whole exists to represent their mutual interests...

) Official Site

Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities Official Site
  1. Belmont Abbey College
    Belmont Abbey College
    Belmont Abbey College is a private liberal-arts Catholic college located in Belmont, North Carolina, USA west of Uptown Charlotte. It was founded in 1876 by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey...

     (Belmont, NC) Official Site
  2. Benedictine College
    Benedictine College
    Benedictine College is a co-educational university in Atchison, Kansas, founded in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College for men and Mount St. Scholastica College for women. It is a Roman Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts, and residential college located on bluffs overlooking the...

     (Atchison, KS) Official Site
  3. Benedictine University
    Benedictine University
    Benedictine University is a private Catholic university located in Lisle, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. The institution has retained close relations with the Benedictine Order. Originally named St. Procopius College and located in the Pilsen community of Chicago, the school was founded in 1887 by...

     (Lisle, IL) Official Site
  4. Saint Leo University
    Saint Leo University
    Saint Leo University is a private, non-profit, Roman Catholic liberal arts university established in 1889 and located in Saint Leo, Florida, 35 miles north of Tampa. The University is associated with the Holy Name Monastery, a Benedictine convent, and Saint Leo Abbey, a Benedictine monastery...

     (Saint Leo, FL
    St. Leo, Florida
    St. Leo is a town in Pasco County, Florida, United States. It is a suburb included in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 595 at the 2000 census. As of 2006, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 1,249.It is best known as...

    ) Official Site
  5. College of Saint Benedict (St. Joseph, MN) Official Site
  6. The College of St. Scholastica
    The College of St. Scholastica
    The College of Saint Scholastica is a private college with its main campus located in Duluth, Minnesota. The College was founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters who offered college courses to six young women. Today St. Scholastica educates more than 4,000 students annually and...

     (Duluth, MN) Official Site
  7. Mount Marty College
    Mount Marty College
    Mount Marty College, an academic community in the Roman Catholic Benedictine liberal arts tradition, is located in Yankton, South Dakota. Mount Marty is a private, Roman Catholic, Benedictine co-educational liberal arts college...

     (Yankton, SD) Official Site
  8. Saint Anselm College
    Saint Anselm College
    Saint Anselm College is a nationally ranked, private, Benedictine, Catholic liberal arts college in Goffstown, New Hampshire. Founded in 1889 by Abbot Hilary Pfrängle, O.S.B. of Saint Mary's Abbey in Newark, New Jersey, at the request of Bishop Denis M. Bradley of Manchester, New Hampshire, the...

     (Goffstown, NH) Official Site
  9. Saint Gregory's University (Shawnee, OK) Official Site
  10. Saint John's University
    College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
    The College of Saint Benedict , for women, and Saint John's University , for men, are partnered liberal arts colleges respectively located in St. Joseph and Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Students attend classes and activities together, and have access to the resources of both campuses...

     (Collegeville, MN) Official Site
  11. Saint Martin's University
    Saint Martin's University
    Saint Martin's University is a coeducational, Catholic, liberal arts university in the United States. Located in Lacey, Washington, it was founded in 1895 as an all-boys boarding school by monks of the Benedictine Order. Saint Martin's began offering college-level courses in 1900 and became a...

     (Lacey, WA) Official Site
  12. Saint Vincent College
    Saint Vincent College
    Saint Vincent College is a four-year, coeducational, Roman Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, located about 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1846 by Boniface Wimmer, a monk from Bavaria, Germany. It was the first Benedictine monastery in the...

     (Latrobe, PA) Official Site
  13. University of Mary
    University of Mary
    The University of Mary is a four year Catholic university near Bismarck, North Dakota.The university is the largest degree granting institution in Bismarck...

     (Bismarck, ND) Official Site

Christian Brothers
Congregation of Christian Brothers
The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. The Christian Brothers, as they are commonly known, chiefly work for the evangelisation and education of youth, but are involved in many ministries, especially with...

 (Congregation of Christian Brothers
Congregation of Christian Brothers
The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Blessed Edmund Rice. The Christian Brothers, as they are commonly known, chiefly work for the evangelisation and education of youth, but are involved in many ministries, especially with...

) Official Site

  1. Iona College
    Iona College (New York)
    Iona College is located in New Rochelle, New York, 20 miles north of Manhattan in suburban Westchester County. The college occupies 35 acres on North Ave. The college also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River, Rockland County, New York....

     (New Rochelle, NY), Official Site

Diocesan

  1. Carroll College
    Carroll College (Montana)
    Carroll College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in Helena, Montana, USA. Carroll College has earned national and regional awards for its academic programs. Carroll's colors are purple and gold...

     (Helena, MT), Official Site Diocese of Helena, Montana
  2. Catholic Distance University
    Catholic Distance University
    Catholic Distance University , located in Hamilton, Virginia, is a private undergraduate and graduate institution that is "in the vanguard of Catholic distance learning." Established in 1983 in the Arlington diocese by Bishop Welsh, CDU offers an accredited bachelor degree in theology completion...

     (Hamilton, VA), Official Site Diocese of Arlington
  3. Gannon University
    Gannon University
    Gannon University is a private, co-educational Catholic university offering associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees, certificates and doctoral degrees and is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. Gannon University has an alumni base numbering around 31,500. Current enrollment is 4,238.Gannon's...

     (Erie, PA), Official Site Diocese of Erie
  4. Loras College
    Loras College
    Loras College is a four-year Catholic college located in Dubuque, Iowa, with a general attendance of approximately 1,700 students. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs...

     (Dubuque, IA), Official Site Archdiocese of Dubuque
  5. Mount St. Mary's University (Emmitsburg, MD) Official Site
  6. St. Ambrose University (Davenport, IA) Official Site Diocese of Davenport
  7. St. Thomas University
    St. Thomas University (Florida)
    St. Thomas University is a private Roman Catholic university in the Miami, Florida, United States suburb of Miami Gardens.-History:The University traces its roots to the Universidad Católica de Santo Tomás de Villanueva, founded in 1946 in Havana, Cuba, named after Saint Thomas of Villanova, by...

     (Miami, FL) Official Site Archdiocese of Miami
  8. Seton Hall University
    Seton Hall University
    Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall is also the oldest and largest Catholic university in the...

     (South Orange, NJ), Archdiocese of Newark
  9. Thomas More College (Crestview Hills, KY) Official Site
  10. University of Dallas
    University of Dallas
    The University of Dallas is a private, independent Catholic regional university located in Irving, Texas, established in 1956, which is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. According to U.S...

     (Dallas, TX), Official Site Diocese of Dallas
  11. University of St. Thomas
    University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
    The University of St. Thomas is a private, Catholic, liberal arts, and archdiocesan university located in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States...

     (St. Paul, MN), Official Site Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Dominican
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

 (Order of Preachers
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

) Official Site

  1. Albertus Magnus College
    Albertus Magnus College
    Albertus Magnus College is a small private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It is located about two miles from the central campus of Yale University in a residential area near the border with Hamden. The neighborhood is on Prospect Street just above Edgerton park and...

     (New Haven, CT) Official Site
  2. Aquinas Institute of Theology
    Aquinas Institute of Theology
    Aquinas Institute of Theology is a Roman Catholic graduate school and seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded by the Dominican Order and sponsored by the Province of St...

     (St. Louis, MO) Official Site
  3. Aquinas College
    Aquinas College (Michigan)
    Aquinas College is a small Catholic college that aims to provide a liberal arts education located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Aquinas is considered one of the best liberal arts colleges in the Midwest region by U.S. News and World Report ....

     (Grand Rapids, MI) Official Site
  4. Aquinas College
    Aquinas College (Tennessee)
    Aquinas College is a Roman Catholic institution of higher learning located in Nashville, Tennessee, named in honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas.Aquinas College was founded by the Dominican Order in 1928 as St. Cecilia Normal School, and was first a school for nuns located at the St. Cecilia Motherhouse...

     (Nashville, TN) Official Site
  5. Barry University
    Barry University
    Barry University is a private, Catholic university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb north of Downtown Miami. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami....

     (Miami, FL) Official Site
  6. Caldwell College
    Caldwell College
    Caldwell College is a Catholic liberal arts college in Caldwell, New Jersey, United States.Founded in 1939 by the Sisters of St. Dominic, the college is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, chartered by the State of New Jersey and registered with the Regents of the...

     (Caldwell, NJ) Official Site
  7. Dominican College
    Dominican College (New York)
    Dominican College also known as Dominican College of Blauvelt is an independent, four-year and master's-level liberal arts college, chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York and fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools,...

     (Orangeburg, NY
    Orangeburg, New York
    Orangeburg hamlet , in the Town of Orangetown Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Tappan; south of Blauvelt; east of Pearl River and west of Piermont...

    ) Official Site
  8. Dominican University
    Dominican University (Illinois)
    Dominican University is a coeducational, comprehensive, Catholic institution of higher education and research in River Forest, Illinois. Affiliated with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, it offers bachelor's and master's degrees and certificate programs...

     (River Forest, IL) Official Site
  9. Dominican University of California
    Dominican University of California
    Dominican University of California is a four year, accredited, private, Catholic-heritage, and co-educational institution located in San Rafael, California. Founded in 1890 as Dominican College, Dominican is one of the oldest universities in California. The U.S. News and World Report ranks...

     (San Rafael, CA) Official Site
  10. Edgewood College
    Edgewood College
    Edgewood College is a Dominican Catholic liberal arts college in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Madison. Overlooking the shores of Lake Wingra, it occupies on Madison's near west side....

     (Madison, WI) Official Site
  11. Molloy College
    Molloy College
    Molloy College is located in Rockville Centre, New York, a Nassau County community on Long Island, in the United States. with a brand new, state-of-the art residential facility. It also has a new 550 seat performing arts facility-- The Madison Theatre...

     (Rockville Centre, NY) Official Site
  12. Mount Saint Mary College
    Mount Saint Mary College
    Mount Saint Mary College is a private, co-educational, four-year liberal arts college, located in Newburgh in the mid-Hudson Valley region of New York State...

     (Newburgh, NY) Official Site
  13. Ohio Dominican University
    Ohio Dominican University
    Ohio Dominican University is a private four-year liberal arts institution, founded in 1911 in the Catholic and Dominican traditions. The main campus spans over in the North Central neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, United States. The university has just over 3,100 students and offers undergraduate...

      (Columbus, OH) Official Site
  14. Providence College
    Providence College
    Providence College is a private, coeducational, Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city. With a 2010–2011 enrollment of 3,850 undergraduate students and 735 graduate students, the College specializes in academic...

     (Providence, RI) Official Site
  15. St. Catharine College (St. Catharine, KY) Official Site
  16. St. Thomas Aquinas College
    St. Thomas Aquinas College
    St. Thomas Aquinas College is a private four-year liberal arts college in Rockland County, New York that occupies a forty-eight acre campus. Located at 125 Route 340 in Sparkill, New York, the college is named after the medieval philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas...

     (Sparkill, NY
    Sparkill, New York
    Sparkill, formerly known as Tappan Sloat, is an affluent, suburban hamlet in the Town of Orangetown, Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Palisades; east of Tappan; south of Piermont and west of the Hudson River...

    ) Official Site
  17. Siena Heights University
    Siena Heights University
    Siena Heights University is a Roman Catholic postsecondary institution in Adrian, Michigan. It is affiliated with the St. Joseph Academy and Montessori Children’s House.-History:...

     (Adrian, MI) Official Site

Edmundite
Society of Saint Edmund
The Society of Saint Edmund is a religious congregation of the Catholic Church founded in 1843, in Pontigny, France by Rev. Jean Baptiste Muard. They adhere to vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. The order is named after Saint Edmund....

 (Society of Saint Edmund
Society of Saint Edmund
The Society of Saint Edmund is a religious congregation of the Catholic Church founded in 1843, in Pontigny, France by Rev. Jean Baptiste Muard. They adhere to vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. The order is named after Saint Edmund....

) Official Site

  1. Saint Michael's College
    Saint Michael's College
    Saint Michael's College is a private, residential liberal arts Catholic college. The campus is located in Colchester, Vermont. It was founded in 1904 by the Society of Saint Edmund, a French order of Catholic priests.-History:...

     (Colchester, VT) Official Site

Franciscan
Franciscan
Most Franciscans are members of Roman Catholic religious orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. Besides Roman Catholic communities, there are also Old Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, ecumenical and Non-denominational Franciscan communities....

 

  1. Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities
    Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities
    The Association of Franciscan Colleges and Universities is an association of 20 Franciscan colleges and universities located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin....

     Official Site

First Order of Saint Francis (Order of Friars Minor) Official Site

  1. Franciscan School of Theology
    Franciscan School of Theology
    The Franciscan School of Theology is a Roman Catholic graduate theological school, owned and operated by the Province of Saint Barbara of the Order of Friars Minor...

     (Berkeley, CA) Official Site
  2. Quincy University
    Quincy University
    Quincy University a private liberal arts Catholic university in the Franciscan tradition. It is located in Quincy, Illinois and currently enrolls around 1,300 students.-History:...

     (Quincy, IL) Official Site
  3. St. Bonaventure University
    St. Bonaventure University
    St. Bonaventure University is a private, Franciscan Catholic university, located in Allegany, Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students....

     (Olean, NY) Official Site
  4. Siena College
    Siena College
    Siena College is an independent Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Loudonville, in the town of Colonie, New York, United States. Siena is a four-year, coeducational, independent college in the Franciscan tradition, founded by the Franciscan Friars in 1937. It has 3,000 full-time students and...

     (Loudonville, NY) Official Site

Third Order of Saint Francis 

  1. Alvernia University (Reading, PA) Official Site Bernardine Franciscan Sisters
  2. Alverno College
    Alverno College
    Alverno College is a Roman Catholic, four-year, independent, liberal arts college, historically and still primarily a women's college located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin....

     (Milwaukee, WI) Official Site School Sisters of St. Francis
  3. Briar Cliff University
    Briar Cliff University
    Briar Cliff University is a private, Franciscan Roman Catholic liberal arts university located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. -History:In March 1929, Mother Mary Dominica Wieneke, Major Superior of...

     (Sioux City, IA) Official Site Sisters of St. Francis Dubuque
  4. Cardinal Stritch University
    Cardinal Stritch University
    Cardinal Stritch University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.The university also has sites located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and Rochester, Minnesota, as well as multiple Outreach programs throughout Wisconsin.Cardinal...

     (Milwaukee, WI) Official Site Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi
  5. Felician College
    Felician College
    Felician College is a private Roman Catholic college with two campuses, located in Lodi and Rutherford, New Jersey.It was founded as the Immaculate Conception Normal School by the Felician Sisters in 1923, and became Immaculate Conception Junior College in 1942. With the authorization of its first...

     (Lodi, NJ), Official Site Felician Sisters
  6. Franciscan University of Steubenville
    Franciscan University of Steubenville
    Franciscan University of Steubenville is a Catholic institution located in Steubenville, Ohio, west of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school was founded in 1946 by the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular. In 1974, Fr...

     (Steubenville, OH), Official Site Franciscans, Third Order Regular
  7. Hilbert College
    Hilbert College
    Hilbert College is a private Franciscan college located in the Town of Hamburg, about 20 minutes south of Buffalo, New York. The college is named after Mother Collette Hilbert of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph, who founded the school to train teachers in 1957...

     (Hamburg, NY
    Hamburg (village), New York
    Hamburg is a village in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 10,116 at the 2000 census. The village is reportedly named after Hamburg, a city in Germany...

    ) Official Site Franciscan Sisters of St. Joseph
  8. Lourdes College
    Lourdes College
    Lourdes University is a independent, private, Catholic university in Sylvania, Ohio, northwest of Toledo. The university also operates an extension location for its nursing program in Sandusky, Ohio....

     (Sylvania, OH) Official Site Sisters of St. Francis Sylvania
  9. Madonna University
    Madonna University
    Madonna University is a private, non-profit, Catholic university located in suburban Livonia, Michigan, on the western perimeter of metropolitan Detroit. Conducted by the Felician Sisters, it has extension campuses in Southwest Detroit, Orchard Lake, Michigan Madonna University is a private,...

     (Livonia, MI) Official Site Felician Sisters of Livonia
  10. Marian University (Indianapolis, IN) Official Site Sisters of St. Francis Oldenburg
  11. Neumann University (Aston, PA) Official Site The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
  12. Our Lady of the Lake College
    Our Lady of the Lake College
    Our Lady of the Lake College is a private, independent Catholic institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is sponsored by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, North American Province. It was started in 1923 as Our Lady of the Lake School of Nursing to educate students to...

     (Baton Rouge, LA), Official Site Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady
  13. Saint Francis College
    Saint Francis College
    St. Francis College is a private, coeducational college located in Brooklyn Heights, New York, in the United States. It was founded in 1859 by the Franciscan friars as the St. Francis Academy. St...

     (Brooklyn Heights, NY
    Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
    Brooklyn Heights is a culturally diverse neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Originally referred to as 'Brooklyn Village', it has been a prominent area of Brooklyn since 1834. As of 2000, Brooklyn Heights sustained a population of 22,594 people. The neighborhood is part of...

    ) Official Site Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn
  14. Saint Francis University
    Saint Francis University
    Saint Francis University is a four-year, coeducational Catholic liberal arts university in Loretto, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1847 and conducted under the tradition of the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular...

     (Loretto, PA), Official Site Franciscans, Third Order Regular
  15. Silver Lake College
    Silver Lake College
    Silver Lake College is a four-year, Catholic liberal arts college located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Green Bay. Founded as an academy in 1885 by the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, the college achieved four-year college status in 1935 and was then called Holy Family College...

     (Manitowoc, WI) Official Site Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity
  16. University of St. Francis
    University of Saint Francis (Illinois)
    The University of St. Francis is a Catholic, Franciscan university, serving more than 3,300 students at locations throughout the nation. USF's main campus is located at 500 Wilcox Street in Joliet, Illinois. It is located about southwest of Chicago in a residential neighborhood and serves 1,300...

     (Joliet, IL) Official Site Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate
  17. University of Saint Francis
    University of Saint Francis (Indiana)
    The University of Saint Francis is a liberal arts university located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, the university promotes Catholic and Franciscan values...

     (Fort Wayne, IN) Official Site Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration
  18. Villa Maria College
    Villa Maria College
    Villa Maria College is a private college located in Cheektowaga, New York specializing in music and the arts. It was founded in 1961 by the Felician Sisters of Buffalo....

     (Buffalo, NY) Official Site Felician Sisters
  19. Viterbo University
    Viterbo University
    Viterbo University is a Roman Catholic liberal arts university located in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States in the Diocese of La Crosse.-History:...

     (La Crosse, WI) Official Site Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

Holy Cross (Congregation of Holy Cross
Congregation of Holy Cross
The Congregation of Holy Cross or Congregatio a Sancta Cruce is a Catholic congregation of priests and brothers founded in 1837 by Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau, CSC, in Le Mans, France....

) Official Site

  1. Holy Cross College
    Holy Cross College (Indiana)
    Holy Cross College is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, residential institution of higher education in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community northeast of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States — as are Saint Mary's College and the University of Notre Dame...

     (Notre Dame, IN) (also associated with Brothers of Holy Cross),Official Site
  2. King’s College
    King's College, Pennsylvania
    King's College is a liberal arts college located in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, King's has been ranked among the best colleges in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for 16 straight years...

     (Wilkes-Barre, PA), Official Site
  3. Notre Dame College
    Notre Dame College (New Hampshire)
    Notre Dame College was a Roman Catholic college located in Manchester, New Hampshire and affiliated with the Sisters of Holy Cross of Montreal, Canada...

     (Manchester, NH) Closed 2002
  4. Our Lady of Holy Cross College
    Our Lady of Holy Cross College
    Our Lady of Holy Cross College is a liberal arts college in New Orleans, Louisiana.-History:OLHCC was founded in 1916 as a two year normal school by the Marianites of Holy Cross. Its original location was in the Bywater area of New Orleans. It became a 4 year institution in 1938. In 1947, a ...

     (New Orleans, LA), Marianites of Holy Cross
  5. Saint Edward's University (Austin, TX) Official Site
  6. Saint Mary's College
    Saint Mary's College (Indiana)
    Saint Mary's College is a private Catholic liberal arts college founded in 1844 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. It is located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community northeast of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States — as are the University of Notre Dame and Holy...

     (Notre Dame, IN), Sisters of the Holy Cross
  7. Stonehill College
    Stonehill College
    Stonehill College is a private Roman Catholic college located in Easton, Massachusetts, United States, founded in 1948. Situated in North Easton, Massachusetts, a suburban community of 23,329 people, Stonehill is located south of Boston on a campus, the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames...

     (Easton, MA), Eastern Province of Priests and Brothers
  8. University of Notre Dame
    University of Notre Dame
    The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

     (South Bend, IN) Official Site
  9. University of Portland
    University of Portland
    The University of Portland is a private Roman Catholic university located in Portland, Oregon. It is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross and is the sister school of the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1901, UP has a student body of about 3,600 students...

     (Portland, OR) Official Site

Jesuit (Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

) Official Site

Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and two theological centers in the United States committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities, sharing resources, and advocating and...

 (AJCU) Official Site
  1. Boston College
    Boston College
    Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

     (Chestnut Hill, MA) Official Site
  2. Canisius College
    Canisius College
    Canisius College is a private Roman Catholic college in Buffalo, New York, United States. The college was founded in 1870 by members of the Society of Jesus from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius. The college is one of 28 institutions in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and...

     (Buffalo, NY) Official Site
  3. College of the Holy Cross
    College of the Holy Cross
    The College of the Holy Cross is an undergraduate Roman Catholic liberal arts college located in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA...

     (Worcester, MA) Official Site
  4. Creighton University
    Creighton University
    Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by...

     (Omaha, NE) Official Site
  5. Fairfield University
    Fairfield University
    Fairfield University is a private, co-educational undergraduate and master's level teaching-oriented university located in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the New England region of the United States. It was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1942, and today is one of 28 member institutions of the...

     (Fairfield, CT) Official Site
  6. Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

     (New York, NY & West Harrison, NY) Official Site
  7. Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

     (Washington, D.C.) Official Site
  8. Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...

     (Spokane, WA) Official Site
  9. John Carroll University
    John Carroll University
    John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...

     (Cleveland, OH) Official Site
  10. Le Moyne College
    Le Moyne College
    Le Moyne College, named after Simon Le Moyne, is a private, Jesuit college enrolling over 3,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1946, Le Moyne is the first Jesuit college to be founded as a co-educational institution...

     (Syracuse, NY) Official Site
  11. Loyola Marymount University
    Loyola Marymount University
    Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

     (Los Angeles, CA) Official Site
  12. Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

     (Chicago, IL) Official Site
  13. Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, MD) Official Site
  14. Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

     (New Orleans, LA) Official Site
  15. Marquette University
    Marquette University
    Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

     (Milwaukee, WI) Official Site
  16. Regis University
    Regis University
    Regis University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic, Jesuit university in the United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1877, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

     (Denver, CO) Official Site
  17. Rockhurst University
    Rockhurst University
    Rockhurst University is a private, coeducational Jesuit university located in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1910 as Rockhurst College. The school adheres to the motto etched into the stone of the campus bell tower: "Learning, Leadership, and Service in the Jesuit Tradition." It is one of 28...

     (Kansas City, MO) Official Site
  18. Saint Joseph's University
    Saint Joseph's University
    Saint Joseph's University is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located partially in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia and partially in Lower Merion Township and located in the Pennsylvania Main Line, Pennsylvania, United States.The school was founded in 1851 as Saint...

     (Philadelphia, PA) Official Site
  19. Saint Louis University
    Saint Louis University
    Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

     (St. Louis, MO) Official Site
  20. Saint Peter's College, New Jersey
    Saint Peter's College, New Jersey
    Saint Peter's College is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic college in the United States. Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, it was founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus. Today, Saint Peter's College is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

     (Jersey City, NJ) Official Site
  21. Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University
    Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...

     (Santa Clara, CA) Official Site
  22. Seattle University
    Seattle University
    Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the First Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7,500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member...

     (Seattle, WA) Official Site
  23. Spring Hill College
    Spring Hill College
    Spring Hill College is a private, Roman Catholic Jesuit liberal arts college in the United States. It was founded in 1830 on the Gulf Coast in Mobile, Alabama, by Most Rev. Michael Portier, Bishop of Mobile, Alabama...

     (Mobile, AL) Official Site
  24. University of Detroit Mercy
    University of Detroit Mercy
    University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi is the president. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university...

     (Detroit, MI) Official Site
  25. University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

     (San Francisco, CA) Official Site
  26. University of Scranton
    University of Scranton
    The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Catholic and Jesuit university, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College. It was elevated to a...

     (Scranton, PA) Official Site
  27. Wheeling Jesuit University
    Wheeling Jesuit University
    Wheeling Jesuit University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. Located in Wheeling, West Virginia, it was founded as Wheeling College in 1954 by the Society of Jesus . Today, Wheeling Jesuit University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of...

     (Wheeling, WV) Official Site
  28. Xavier University
    Xavier University (Cincinnati)
    Xavier University is a co-educational Jesuit university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation and has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,000 students and graduate enrollment of 2,600 students. Xavier is primarily...

     (Cincinnati, OH) Official Site

Lasallian (Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools is a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and now based in Rome...

) Official Site

International Association of Lasallian Universities Official Site
  1. Christian Brothers University
    Christian Brothers University
    Christian Brothers University is the oldest collegiate degree-granting institution in the city of Memphis. The university is run by the Christian Brothers, a Roman Catholic religious order founded by St. John Baptist de la Salle, the patron saint of teachers...

     (Memphis, TN) Official Site
  2. La Salle University
    La Salle University
    La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the school was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. As of 2008 the school has approximately 7,554...

     (Philadelphia, PA) Official Site
  3. Lewis University
    Lewis University
    Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university located in Romeoville, Illinois, United States . The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students...

     (Romeoville, IL) Official Site
  4. Manhattan College
    Manhattan College
    Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City, United States. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers...

     (Riverdale, NY) Official Site
  5. Saint Mary's College of California
    Saint Mary's College of California
    Saint Mary's College of California is a private, coeducational college located in Moraga, California, United States, a small suburban community about east of Oakland and 20 miles east of San Francisco. It has a 420-acre campus in the Moraga hills. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church...

     (Moraga, CA) Official Site
  6. Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
    Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
    Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is a private, comprehensive, coeducational university with an undergraduate campus in the city of Winona, Minnesota, United States...

     (Winona, MN) Official Site

Legionaries of Christ 

  1. University of Sacramento
    University of Sacramento
    The University of Sacramento was a private, Catholic university that opened in 2005 under the sponsorship of the Legion of Christ, an order of Catholic priests. It developed an ethics program in 2006. Dr...

     (Sacramento, CA) Official Site

Missionaries of the Precious Blood
Missionaries of the Precious Blood
The Missionaries of the Precious Blood form a community of priests and brothers within the Latin Church, one of the 23 sui iuris churches which make up the universal Catholic Church. The Society was founded by Saint Gaspar del Bufalo in 1815...

 

  1. Calumet College of St. Joseph
    Calumet College of St. Joseph
    Calumet College of St. Joseph is a private college affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church through the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Its main campus is in Whiting, Indiana, with additional campuses located in Chicago, Illinois, and Merrillville, Indiana...

      (Whiting, IN) Official Site
  2. Saint Joseph's College (Indiana)  (Rensselaer, IN) Official Site

Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a Roman Catholic female religious congregation, founded in 1880 by Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini....

 

  1. Cabrini College
    Cabrini College
    Cabrini College is a coeducational Roman Catholic residential college in the Philadelphia metropolitan area of Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, founded by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1957. It was one of the first colleges in the United States to make community service a...

     (Radnor, PA) Official Site

Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales are a congregation of Roman Catholic priests and brothers who base their spirituality on the teachings of St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal. The Oblates of St. Francis de Sales (Latin: Oblati Sancti Francisci Salesii, O.S.F.S.) are a congregation of...

 

  1. DeSales University
    DeSales University
    DeSales University is a private Catholic university for men and women, located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Before 2001, it was known as Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales.- History :...

     (Center Valley, PA) Official Site

Opus Dei
Opus Dei
Opus Dei, formally known as The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei , is an organization of the Catholic Church that teaches that everyone is called to holiness and that ordinary life is a path to sanctity. The majority of its membership are lay people, with secular priests under the...

 Official Site

  1. Lexington College
    Lexington College
    Lexington College is a women's college with a Catholic inspiration located in Chicago, Illinois. The curriculum is focused entirely on hospitality management studies. , the college had 56 students....

     (Chicago, IL) Official Site

Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters
Sinsinawa Dominican Congregation of the Most Holy Rosary of the Order of Preachers is a Catholic religious order for women. The mother house is located in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin in the Diocese of Madison.-Overview:...

 

  1. Edgewood College
    Edgewood College
    Edgewood College is a Dominican Catholic liberal arts college in Madison, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Madison. Overlooking the shores of Lake Wingra, it occupies on Madison's near west side....

     (Madison, WI) Official Site
  2. Dominican University
    Dominican University (Illinois)
    Dominican University is a coeducational, comprehensive, Catholic institution of higher education and research in River Forest, Illinois. Affiliated with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, it offers bachelor's and master's degrees and certificate programs...

     (River Forest, IL) Official Site

Sisters of Charity
Sisters of Charity
Many religious communities have the term Sisters of Charity as part of their name. The rule of Saint Vincent for the Daughters of Charity has been adopted and adapted by at least sixty founders of religious orders around the world in the subsequent centuries....

 

  1. Clarke College
    Clarke College
    Clarke University is a four-year Catholic college located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States, with a general attendance of approximately 1,200 students. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate degree programs...

     (Dubuque, IA), Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  2. College of Saint Elizabeth
    College of Saint Elizabeth
    The College of Saint Elizabeth is a private Roman Catholic, four-year, liberal arts college for women. It is located in an unincorporated community called Convent Station, in Morris Township, New Jersey...

     (Morristown, NJ), Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth of New Jersey
  3. College of Mount Saint Vincent
    College of Mount Saint Vincent
    For the university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, see Mount Saint Vincent University The College of Mount Saint Vincent is a Catholic liberal arts college located in the northeast corner of the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York, adjacent to the Yonkers border. It is the northernmost location in...

     (Riverdale, NY), Sisters of Charity of New York
  4. College of Mount St. Joseph
    College of Mount St. Joseph
    The College of Mount St. Joseph is a private, Catholic, co-educational college located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also known as “the Mount,” the College was founded in 1920 by the Sisters of Charity and educates students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional curricula emphasizing...

     (Cincinnati, OH), Sisters of Charity of Ohio Official Site
  5. Seton Hill University
    Seton Hill University
    Seton Hill University is a small Catholic liberal arts university of about 2100 students in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Formerly a women's college, it became a coeducational university in 2002....

     (Greensburg, PA), Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill of Greensburg
  6. University of the Incarnate Word
    University of the Incarnate Word
    The University of the Incarnate Word is a private Catholic university located within the cities of San Antonio and Alamo Heights in Texas, United States....

     (San Antonio, TX), Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word
  7. University of St. Mary
    University of Saint Mary (Kansas)
    The University of Saint Mary is a private liberal arts university in Leavenworth, Kansas. It is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, who established it as Saint Mary College. Though it was originally a school for women, the school is now coeducational. St. Mary's Academy for high...

     (Leavenworth, KS), Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Official Site

Sisters of Divine Providence (Congregation of Divine Providence
Congregation of Divine Providence
The Congregation of Divine Providence was founded by Father Jean-Martin Moye, a French priest who saw the lack of educational opportunities for females in his parish in Lorraine, France....

)

  1. La Roche College
    La Roche College
    La Roche College is a private college in McCandless, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. It was founded in 1963 by the Sisters of Divine Providence as a Roman Catholic college and now sits on an campus in McCandless. The current president, Sister Candace Introcaso, CDP, Ph.D., was installed in...

     (McCandless, PA), Sisters of Divine Providence, Maria de la Roche Province
  2. Our Lady of the Lake University
    Our Lady of the Lake University
    Our Lady of the Lake University is an independent Catholic, co-ed university located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was founded in 1895 by the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence, a religious order originating in Lorraine, France, during the 18th century...

     (San Antonio, TX)

Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth
The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth are a Roman Catholic religious order which was founded in Rome in 1875 by Blessed Mary of Jesus the Good Shepherd . The Sisters of the Holy Family are an apostolic, international congregation, located on four continents and in thirteen countries. There are...

 

  1. Holy Family University (Philadelphia, PA)

Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
The Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary is a teaching order founded at Longueuil, Québec, Canada in 1843 by Blessed Mother Marie-Rose for the Christian education of young girls.Their motto is: "Jésus et Marie, Ma Force et Ma Gloire" .Since 1843, the...

 

  1. Holy Names University
    Holy Names University
    Holy Names University is a private, coeducational university located in Oakland, California. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and is administered by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.-History:...

     (Oakland, CA) Official Site
  2. Marylhurst University
    Marylhurst University
    Marylhurst University is a private Catholic liberal arts university located in Marylhurst, Oregon, United States, nine miles south of Portland on the Willamette River. It is among the oldest collegiate degree-granting institutions in Oregon, awarding its first degree in 1897...

     (Portland, OR) Official Site

Sisters of Mercy
Sisters of Mercy
The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy is an order of Catholic women founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831. , the order has about 10,000 members worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations....

 Official Site

Conference for Mercy Higher Education Official Site
  1. Carlow University
    Carlow University
    Carlow University is a Roman Catholic university founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, on September 24, 1929, by the Sisters of Mercy from Carlow, Ireland. Originally called Mount Mercy College, the name was changed to Carlow College in April 1969. In 2004, Carlow College achieved university...

     (Pittsburgh, PA) Official Site
  2. Misericordia University (Dallas, PA) Official Site
  3. College of Saint Mary
    College of Saint Mary
    College of Saint Mary is a Catholic women's college located in Omaha, Nebraska. , there were 820 undergraduates and 243 graduate students.The academic programs at Saint Mary are primarily career-focused, with majors offered in fields such as medical technology, business administration, and nursing....

     (Omaha, NE) Official Site
  4. Georgian Court University
    Georgian Court University
    Georgian Court University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Lakewood in Central New Jersey. The university is operated by the Sisters of Mercy...

     (Lakewood, NJ) Official Site
  5. Gwynedd-Mercy College
    Gwynedd-Mercy College
    Gwynedd-Mercy College is an independent, co-educational institution located in Gwynedd Valley of Lower Gwynedd Township, PA, northwest of downtown Philadelphia. Founded in 1948 by the Sisters of Mercy as a junior college, Gwynedd-Mercy College was rechartered in 1963 as baccalaureate institution...

     (Gwynedd Valley, PA) Official Site
  6. Maria College (Albany, NY) Official Site
  7. Marian Court College
    Marian Court College
    Marian Court College is a two-year college in Swampscott in the North Shore region of Massachusetts. Marian Court College is a Roman Catholic institution founded in 1964 and sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy....

     (Swampscott, MA) Official Site
  8. Mercyhurst College
    Mercyhurst College
    Mercyhurst College is a Catholic liberal arts college in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA.-History:On September 20, 1926, Mercyhurst College opened its doors just a few blocks away from the city's southern boundary. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy of the Erie Diocese, who were led by Mother M. Borgia...

     (Erie, PA) Official Site
  9. Mount Aloysius College
    Mount Aloysius College
    Mount Aloysius College is a Catholic, private college in Cresson, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a liberal arts college that awards bachelor’s, associate’s, and master’s degrees in the arts and sciences fields...

     (Cresson, PA) Official Site
  10. Mount Mercy University (Cedar Rapids, IA) Official Site
  11. Salve Regina University
    Salve Regina University
    Salve Regina University is a university in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, the university is a Catholic, co-educational, private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of Rhode Island in 1934. In 1947 the university acquired Ochre Court and welcomed its first class...

     (Newport, RI) Official Site
  12. St. Joseph College (West Hartford, CT) Official Site
  13. St. Joseph's College
    Saint Joseph's College of Maine
    Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is a Catholic liberal arts college in Standish, Maine that grants bachelor's degrees in a traditional on-campus setting, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees via online education. The college’s campus in southern Maine is located on the shores of Sebago Lake,...

     (Standish, ME) Official Site
  14. St. Xavier University
    St. Xavier University
    Saint Xavier University is a four-year, coeducational institution of higher learning located in the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois.- History :...

      (Chicago, IL) Official Site
  15. Trocaire College
    Trocaire College
    Trocaire College is a coeducational junior college specializing in health care training, located in Buffalo, New York. Trocaire has a second location, the Russell J. Salvatore School of Hospitality & Business, located in Lancaster, New York...

     (Buffalo, NY) Official Site
  16. University of Detroit Mercy
    University of Detroit Mercy
    University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi is the president. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university...

     (Detroit, MI) Official Site

Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld
Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld
The Sisters of Notre Dame of Coesfeld is a Christian religious order.The congregation was founded in Coesfeld, Germany, during a time of religious and social need. In 1849 a young teacher, Hilligonde Wolbring, out of love for the poor, took orphaned and neglected children into her home. Together...

 Official Site

  1. Notre Dame College
    Notre Dame College
    Notre Dame College, also known as Notre Dame College of Ohio or simply NDC, is a Catholic, coeducational, liberal arts college in South Euclid, Ohio, USA. Established in 1922 as a women's college it has been coeducational since January 2001...

     (South Euclid, OH), Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is the name of a Roman Catholic order of religious sisters, dedicated to providing education to the poor.The order was founded in Amiens in 1803, but the opposition of the local bishop to missions outside his diocese led to the moving of headquarters to then...

 Official Site

  1. Emmanuel College (Boston, MA)
  2. Notre Dame de Namur University
    Notre Dame de Namur University
    Notre Dame de Namur University — formerly the College of Notre Dame — is a private, Catholic University located in Belmont, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Notre Dame de Namur University is an accredited university in San Mateo County, and the fifth-oldest university in California...

     (Belmont, CA)

Sisters of St. Joseph
Sisters of St. Joseph
The title Sisters of St. Joseph applies to several Roman Catholic religious congregations of women. The largest and oldest of these was founded in Le Puy-en-Velay, France...

 

Association of Colleges of Sisters of Saint Joseph Official site
  1. Avila University
    Avila University
    Avila University is a private university in Kansas City, Missouri sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. It offers Bachelor's degrees in thirty-six majors and Master's degrees: Master of Science in Counseling Psychology, Master of Science in Counseling Psychology/Art Therapy, Master...

     (Kansas City, MO)
  2. Chestnut Hill College
    Chestnut Hill College
    Chestnut Hill College is a coeducational Roman Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was founded in 1924 as a women's college by the Sisters of St. Joseph. It was originally called Mount Saint Joseph College and assumed its current name in 1938. In...

     (Philadelphia, PA)
  3. Fontbonne University
    Fontbonne University
    Fontbonne University is a co-ed liberal arts Catholic institution of approximately 3,000 students in Clayton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. It is a member of the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Fontbonne is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North...

     (St. Louis, MO)
  4. Mount St. Mary's College
    Mount St. Mary's College
    Mount St. Mary's College is a private, independent, Catholic liberal arts college, primarily for women, in Los Angeles, California. The college was founded in 1925 by the Sisters of St...

     (Los Angeles, CA) Official site
  5. The College of St. Catherine (St. Paul, MN)
  6. The College of Saint Rose
    The College of Saint Rose
    The College of Saint Rose is a private, independent, coeducational college in Albany, New York, founded in 1920 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. The College enrolls a total of approximately 5,000 students ....

     (Albany, NY) Official site
  7. Regis College
    Regis College
    Regis College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts and sciences college located in Weston, Massachusetts. Founded as a women’s college in 1927, Regis became co-educational in 2007.-History:...

     (Weston, MA)
  8. Elms College
    Elms College
    The College of Our Lady of the Elms, often called Elms College, is a Catholic liberal arts college located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, near Springfield.- History :...

     (Chicopee,MA)Official site

School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of Notre Dame
School Sisters of Notre Dame is a worldwide order of Roman Catholic nuns devoted to primary, secondary, and post-secondary education. Their life in mission centers on prayer, community life and ministry...

 

  1. College of Notre Dame of Maryland
    College of Notre Dame of Maryland
    Notre Dame of Maryland University is an independent, Catholic-affiliated, liberal arts college located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, that primarily serves female students.-History:...

     (Baltimore, MD)
  2. Mount Mary College
    Mount Mary College
    Mount Mary College is a Catholic women's college based on the liberal arts, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of science in nursing in partnership with Columbia College of Nursing degrees in over 60 undergraduate majors, and master of arts,...

     (Milwaukee, WI)

Sisters of Providence (Montreal, Quebec) 

  1. University of Great Falls
    University of Great Falls
    The University of Great Falls , a private Roman Catholic university located in Great Falls, Montana, is fully accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges...

     (Great Falls, MT), Official Site

Marianists (Society of Mary
Society of Mary (Marianists)
The Society of Mary, a Roman Catholic Marian Society, is a congregation of brothers and priests called The Marianists or Marianist Brothers and Priests. The Society was founded by Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, a priest who survived the anti-clerical persecution during the French Revolution. ...

) Official Site

Association of Marianist Universities Official Site
  1. Chaminade University of Honolulu
    Chaminade University of Honolulu
    Chaminade University of Honolulu is a private co-educational university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. Founded in 1955 by the Society of Mary, a Roman Catholic religious order also known as the Marianists, Chaminade is located in the historic Kaimuki district of Honolulu. Chaminade offers...

     (Honolulu, HI) Official Site
  2. St. Mary's University
    St. Mary's University, Texas
    St. Mary's University is a Catholic and Marianist liberal arts institution located on northwest of downtown San Antonio, Texas, United States. St. Mary’s is a nationally recognized master’s level school ranked among the top colleges in the west for best value and academic reputation by U.S. News...

     (San Antonio, TX) Official Site
  3. University of Dayton
    University of Dayton
    The University of Dayton is a private Roman Catholic university operated by the Society of Mary located in Dayton, Ohio...

     (Dayton, OH) Official Site

Spiritans (Congregation of the Holy Spirit) Official Site

  1. Duquesne University
    Duquesne University
    Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...

     of the Holy Ghost (Pittsburgh, PA) official site

Ursuline (Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph)

  1. Brescia University
    Brescia University
    Brescia University is a coeducational Catholic university located in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the United States. It was founded in 1950 by the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph as Brescia College. It attained university status in 1998 with the addition of Master's degree programs in...

     (Owensboro, KY) Official Site

Vincentian (Congregation of the Mission) Official Site

  1. DePaul University
    DePaul University
    DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...

     (Chicago, IL)
  2. Niagara University
    Niagara University
    Niagara University is a Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition, located in the Town of Lewiston in Niagara County, New York. Originally founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1856 as Our Lady of Angels Seminary, it became Niagara University in 1883. The University is still run by...

     (Niagara Falls, NY)
  3. St. John's University (Jamaica, NY)

Independent

  1. Augustine Institute
    Augustine Institute
    The Augustine Institute , located in Denver, Colorado, is a private graduate institution that answers Pope John Paul II's call for a "New Evangelization." Established in 2005 in the Denver Archdiocese, AI offers masters degrees in theology and biblical studies...

     (Denver, CO) Official Site
  2. Ave Maria University
    Ave Maria University
    Ave Maria University or AMU is a private Catholic university in southwest Florida, United States, founded in 2003. The university moved to its permanent campus, situated in the planned town of Ave Maria, east of Naples, Florida, in August 2007...

     (Naples, FL) Official Site
  3. Ave Maria College
    Ave Maria College
    Ave Maria University - Latin American Campus ' is a branch campus of Ave Maria University in Florida, United States. It is located in the small town of San Marcos, Carazo, Nicaragua...

     (Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

    ) Official Site
  4. Bellarmine University
    Bellarmine University
    Bellarmine University is an independent, private, Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky. The liberal arts institution opened on October 3, 1950, as Bellarmine College, established by Archbishop John A. Floersh of the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Cardinal Saint Robert...

     (Louisville, KY
    Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

    ) Official Site
  5. The Catholic University of America
    The Catholic University of America
    The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...

     (Washington, DC) Official Site
  6. Christendom College
    Christendom College
    Christendom College is a small Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, Virginia, United States, which is located in the Shenandoah Valley.-Educational Mission:...

     (Front Royal, VA) Official Site
  7. The College of New Rochelle
    The College of New Rochelle
    The College of New Rochelle is a private Catholic college with its main campus located in New Rochelle, New York. The College of St. Angela was founded by the Order of the Ursulines as the first Catholic women's college in New York state in 1904, a time when women were generally excluded from...

     (New Rochelle, NY) Official Site Founded in 1904 as the first Catholic college for women in New York State.
  8. The College of Saint Mary Magdalen (Warner, NH) Official Site
  9. College of Saint Thomas More
    College of Saint Thomas More
    The College of Saint Thomas More is a private, Catholic liberal arts college based in Fort Worth, Texas. It was founded in 1981 as the Saint Thomas More Institute. It is located next to the Texas Christian University campus. It awards a Bachelor of Arts degree.-References:*...

     (Fort Worth, TX) Official Site
  10. Dominican University of California
    Dominican University of California
    Dominican University of California is a four year, accredited, private, Catholic-heritage, and co-educational institution located in San Rafael, California. Founded in 1890 as Dominican College, Dominican is one of the oldest universities in California. The U.S. News and World Report ranks...

     (San Rafael, CA) Official Site Founded in 1890 by the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael as an independent university of Catholic heritage.
  11. Immaculata University
    Immaculata University
    Immaculata University is a Catholic University on King Road in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.-History:Immaculata was founded as Villa Maria College, a women's college in 1920. It was the first Catholic college for women in the Philadelphia area...

     (Malvern, PA) Official Site Sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
    Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
    The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are a Catholic teaching order for women. It is divided among three separate congregations. The original community of the order is headquartered in Monroe, Michigan. The Mother house currently houses more than 400 sisters, more than 100 of which...

    .
  12. John Paul the Great Catholic University
    John Paul the Great Catholic University
    John Paul the Great Catholic University is located in San Diego, California. It currently offers Bachelor of Science degrees in Communications Media and Business, each with two or more concentrations offered...

     (San Diego, CA) Official Site
  13. Holy Apostles College and Seminary
    Holy Apostles College and Seminary
    Holy Apostles College and Seminary was founded in 1956 on a property in Cromwell, Connecticut, south of Hartford, by the Very Reverend Eusebe M. Menard, O.F.M., to provide a program of education and formation for men intending to enter the priesthood. Holy Apostles was then a college level,...

     (Cromwell, CT) Official Site
  14. Marygrove College
    Marygrove College
    Marygrove College is an independent, Catholic, liberal arts college located in Detroit, Michigan. The college is sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.-History:...

     (Detroit, MI) Official Site Sponsored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
    Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
    The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are a Catholic teaching order for women. It is divided among three separate congregations. The original community of the order is headquartered in Monroe, Michigan. The Mother house currently houses more than 400 sisters, more than 100 of which...

    .
  15. Mary Manse College
    Mary Manse College
    Mary Manse College was a Catholic institution of higher education located in Toledo, Ohio from 1922 until 1975. The college was founded in 1922 at the request of the Bishop of Toledo, Samuel Stritch. Operated by the Ursuline Order of nuns, Mary Manse opened in September 1922 with thirty students...

     (Toledo, OH) Operated by the Ursuline Order
    Ursulines
    The Ursulines are a Roman Catholic religious order for women founded at Brescia, Italy, by Saint Angela de Merici in November 1535, primarily for the education of girls and the care of the sick and needy. Their patron saint is Saint Ursula.-History:St Angela de Merici spent 17 years leading a...

     of nuns from 1922 to 1975.
  16. Marymount University
    Marymount University
    Marymount University is a coeducational, four-year Catholic university that has its main campus located in Arlington, Virginia. Marymount offers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in a wide range of disciplines and has a diverse and welcoming academic community with approximately 3,600...

     (Arlington, VA) Official Site Founded in 1950 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
  17. Notre Dame de Namur University
    Notre Dame de Namur University
    Notre Dame de Namur University — formerly the College of Notre Dame — is a private, Catholic University located in Belmont, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Notre Dame de Namur University is an accredited university in San Mateo County, and the fifth-oldest university in California...

     (Belmont, CA) Official Site Notre Dame de Namur University is a fully accredited, independent, Catholic university founded in 1851 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
  18. Our Lady of the Lake College
    Our Lady of the Lake College
    Our Lady of the Lake College is a private, independent Catholic institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is sponsored by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, North American Province. It was started in 1923 as Our Lady of the Lake School of Nursing to educate students to...

     (Baton Rouge, LA) Official Site Founded by Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, who still sponsor the similarly named hospital.
  19. Thomas Aquinas College
    Thomas Aquinas College
    Thomas Aquinas College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college offering a single integrated academic program. It is located in Santa Paula, California north of Los Angeles. It offers a unique education with courses based on the Great Books and seminar method...

     (Santa Paula, CA) Official Site
  20. Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
    Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
    The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts is located in Merrimack, New Hampshire. The college emphasizes classical education in the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition and is named after Thomas More. The school has approximately 100 students.-Founding:...

     (Merrimack, NH) Official Site
  21. University of San Diego
    University of San Diego
    The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic university in San Diego, California. USD offers more than sixty bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral programs...

     (San Diego, CA) Official Site
  22. Ursuline College
    Ursuline College
    For the English Catholic Sports College, based in Westgate, see Ursuline College .Ursuline College is a small, Roman Catholic liberal arts women's college in Pepper Pike, Ohio. It was founded in 1871 by the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for...

     (Pepper Pike, OH) official site Maintains close ties to its founding religious congregation, the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland.
  23. Wyoming Catholic College
    Wyoming Catholic College
    Wyoming Catholic College is a private, Catholic liberal arts college in Lander, Wyoming. It is the only private four-year institution of higher education in the state.-Accreditation:...

     (Lander, WY) Official Site

Catholic medical schools

  1. Creighton University
    Creighton University
    Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by...

     School of Medicine (Omaha, NE) Official Site
  2. Georgetown University
    Georgetown University
    Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

     School of Medicine (Washington, DC) Official Site
  3. Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

     Strich School of Medicine (Maywood, IL) Official Site
  4. Saint Louis University
    Saint Louis University
    Saint Louis University is a private, co-educational Jesuit university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by the Most Reverend Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg SLU is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River. It is one of 28 member institutions of the...

     School of Medicine (Saint Louis, MO) Official Site

Catholic law schools

  1. Ave Maria
    Ave Maria School of Law
    The Ave Maria School of Law, founded in 1999, is a fully ABA accredited Roman Catholic law school, located in Naples, Florida. In the 2009-2010 academic year, there were over 375 students enrolled from a variety of states, countries, and undergraduate institutions...

  2. Barry University
    Barry University
    Barry University is a private, Catholic university, which was founded in 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, a suburb north of Downtown Miami. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami....

     (Orlando, FL)
  3. Boston College
    Boston College Law School
    Boston College Law School is one of the six professional graduate schools at Boston College. Located approximately 1.5 miles from the main Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Boston College Law School is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts.With approximately 800 students and...

  4. The Catholic University of America
    The Catholic University of America
    The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...

  5. Creighton University School of Law
    Creighton University School of Law
    Creighton University School of Law is a part of Creighton University. Founded in 1904, Creighton Law is one of 14 Jesuit Catholic law schools in the U.S. One out of every 10 American law students is enrolled in a Jesuit law school. Situated primarily in urban centers, these schools were...

     (Omaha, NE)
  6. DePaul University
    DePaul University
    DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...

     (Chicago, IL)
  7. Duquesne University
    Duquesne University
    Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...

  8. Fordham
  9. Georgetown
    Georgetown University Law Center
    Georgetown University Law Center is the law school of Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C.. Established in 1870, the Law Center offers J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees in law...

  10. Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University
    Gonzaga University is a private Roman Catholic university located in Spokane, Washington, United States. Founded in 1887 by the Society of Jesus, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and is named after the young Jesuit saint, Aloysius Gonzaga...

  11. Loyola Marymount University
    Loyola Marymount University
    Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in Los Angeles, California, United States...

     (Los Angeles, CA)
  12. Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago
    Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

     (Chicago, IL)
  13. Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans
    Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational and Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit patron, Saint Ignatius of Loyola...

     (New Orleans, LA)
  14. Marquette University
    Marquette University
    Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...

  15. Notre Dame Law School
    Notre Dame Law School
    The Notre Dame Law School, or NDLS, is the professional graduate law program of its parent institution, the University of Notre Dame. Established in 1869, NDLS is the oldest Roman Catholic law school in the United States. NDLS is ranked 22nd among the nation's "Top 100 Law Schools" by U.S. News &...

  16. Saint Louis University School of Law
    Saint Louis University School of Law
    Saint Louis University School of Law , also known as SLU LAW, is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is one of the professional graduate schools of Saint Louis University. Opened in 1843, it is the first law school west of the Mississippi River. The school has been ABA...

  17. Santa Clara University School of Law
    Santa Clara University School of Law
    The Santa Clara University School of Law is the law school of Santa Clara University, a Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley region. The School of Law was founded in 1911...

  18. Seattle University School of Law
  19. Seton Hall University
    Seton Hall University
    Seton Hall University is a private Roman Catholic university in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1856 by Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, Seton Hall is the oldest diocesan university in the United States. Seton Hall is also the oldest and largest Catholic university in the...

  20. St. John's University (Jamaica, NY)
  21. St. Mary's University School of Law
    St. Mary's University School of Law
    St. Mary's University School of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of St. Mary's University. The law school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and is the oldest Catholic law school in the American Southwest. The University is a private Catholic university...

     (San Antonio, TX)
  22. St. Thomas University
    St. Thomas University (Florida)
    St. Thomas University is a private Roman Catholic university in the Miami, Florida, United States suburb of Miami Gardens.-History:The University traces its roots to the Universidad Católica de Santo Tomás de Villanueva, founded in 1946 in Havana, Cuba, named after Saint Thomas of Villanova, by...

     (Miami, FL)
  23. University of Dayton School of Law
    University of Dayton School of Law
    The University of Dayton School of Law is a private ABA-approved law school. It is located in Dayton, Ohio, and is affiliated with the University of Dayton, which is a Catholic university of the Marianist Order.-Mission:...

  24. University of Detroit Mercy
    University of Detroit Mercy
    University of Detroit Mercy is a private, Roman Catholic co-educational university in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with the Society of Jesus and the Sisters of Mercy. Antoine M. Garibaldi is the president. With origins dating from 1877, it is the largest Roman Catholic university...

  25. University of San Diego
    University of San Diego
    The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic university in San Diego, California. USD offers more than sixty bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral programs...

  26. University of San Francisco
    University of San Francisco
    The University of San Francisco , is a private, Jesuit/Catholic university located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1855, USF was established as the first university in San Francisco. It is the second oldest institution for higher learning in California and the tenth-oldest university of...

  27. University of St. Thomas
    University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
    The University of St. Thomas is a private, Catholic, liberal arts, and archdiocesan university located in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States...

     (Minneapolis, MN)
  28. Villanova University
    Villanova University
    Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States...


Formerly Catholic colleges and universities

Schools that have ended their affiliation with the Church:
  1. College of Santa Fe
    College of Santa Fe
    Santa Fe University of Art and Design is an institution of creative and performing arts based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The university offers programs in creative writing, theatre, art, graphic design, moving image arts , music, and photography, based on a liberal arts core curriculum...

     (Santa Fe, NM)
  2. Lynn University
    Lynn University
    Lynn University is a private, non-profit university in Boca Raton, Florida, founded in 1962.The university currently hosts students from 40 states and 90 nations...

     (Boca Raton, FL) – formerly Marymount College of Boca Raton
  3. Manhattanville College
    Manhattanville College
    Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...

     (Purchase, NY)
  4. Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
  5. Marymount Manhattan College
    Marymount Manhattan College
    Marymount Manhattan College is an urban, coeducational, independent, private, liberal arts college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York with a focus in performing arts. The mission of the College is to educate a socially and economically diverse student body by fostering intellectual...

     (New York, NY)
  6. Medical College of Wisconsin
    Medical College of Wisconsin
    Medical College of Wisconsin is a private, freestanding medical school and graduate school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was formerly affiliated with Marquette University....

     (Milwaukee, WI) – formerly Marquette University College of Medicine
  7. Mercy College
    Mercy College
    Mercy College can refer to:* Mercy College of Northwest Ohio* Mercy College , Sydney, NSW* Mercy College , Ireland* Mercy College , Dobbs Ferry, NY* Mercy College , Western Australia...

     (Dobbs Ferry, NY)
  8. Nazareth College
    Nazareth College (New York)
    Nazareth College of Rochester, NY, is a private liberal arts college in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester.-History:Nazareth was founded in 1924 by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The first class, comprising 25 young women, began their studies in a large mansion on Lake Avenue in Rochester, New...

     (Rochester, NY); founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph (SSJ) of Rochester.
  9. St. John Fisher College (Rochester, NY); founded by the Basilian Fathers (CSB).
  10. Stevenson University (Stevenson, MD) – formerly Villa Julie College; founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1947
  11. Trinity Washington University
    Trinity Washington University
    Trinity Washington University, founded in 1897 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, is a Roman Catholic university located in Washington, D.C. across from Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies...

     (Washington, DC)
  12. University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
    The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the state-run health sciences institution of New Jersey, United States. It has eight distinct academic units...

     (Newark, NJ) – sold by Seton Hall University to the State of New Jersey in the 1960s
  13. Webster University
    Webster University
    Webster University is an American non-profit private university with its main campus in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Webster University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools...

     (Webster Groves, MO) – founded by the Sisters of Loretto
    Sisters of Loretto
    Sisters of Loretto or the Loretto Community is a Catholic religious institution, which, according to their mission statement, "strive[s] to bring the healing Spirit of God into our world" and is committed "to improving the conditions of those who suffer from injustice, oppression, and deprivation...

    ; became secular/independent in 1967
  14. New York Medical College
    New York Medical College
    New York Medical College, aka New York Med or NYMC, is a private graduate health sciences university based in Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City and a part of the New York Metropolitan Area...

     -now part of Touro University
    Touro University
    Touro University is a division of Touro College. It may refer to:*Touro University California, a medical, pharmacy and physician assistant's school in Vallejo, California, USA....


Closed/extant Catholic universities and colleges

  1. Barat College
    Barat College
    Barat College of the Sacred Heart was a small Catholic college located in Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago. The college was named after Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, founder of the Society of the Sacred Heart...

     (Lake Forest, IL)
  2. College of St. Teresa (Winona, MN)
  3. Duchesne College (Omaha, NE)
  4. Marymount College
    Marymount College, Tarrytown
    Marymount College of Fordham University was a women's college in the United States, eventually to become part of Fordham University. The Marymount campus was located in Tarrytown, New York. Enrollment peaked at 1,112 in 1978, but by 2004 it enrolled 844 students...

     (Tarrytown, NY)
  5. Southern Catholic College
    Southern Catholic College
    Southern Catholic College was a private, co-educational Roman Catholic four-year college located in Dawsonville, Georgia. It was founded in 2000 by Thomas J. Clements and the first classes were held in the fall of 2005 and its last classes were held in April of 2010...

     (Dawsonville, GA)
  6. St. Viator College
    St. Viator College
    St. Viator College was a Catholic liberal arts college in Bourbonnais, Illinois. It is no longer in operation.-History:St. Viator's grew out of the original Bourbonnais village school, founded in 1865 by the Viatorians, to an academy for boys with the help of Father P...

     (Bourbonnais, IL)
  7. University of Albuquerque
    University of Albuquerque
    The University of Albuquerque was a Catholic university in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which closed in 1986. Its former campus on Albuquerque's westside now houses St. Pius X High School, a Catholic high school....

    (Albuquerque, NM)
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