The Board of Trustees, Administration and Faculty of Saint Joseph’s Seminary are dedicated to the fulfillment of the Seminary’s Mission Statement and to providing all of its students with all the services and resources needed for them to graduate on time and to achieve the Intended Student Learning Outcomes for their respective degree programs.

The students who attend Saint Joseph’s Seminary fall into a number of categories: Major Seminarians who are studying for the Priesthood, candidates for Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate, graduate students in Philosophy (many of whom are preparing for entrance into the Major Seminary), as well as lay men and women, ordained clergy and men and women in consecrated life who wish to study Theology for a wide variety of ministerial, professional and personal reasons. 

Saint Joseph’s Seminary presently offers three degree programs at its four locations: Master of Divinity (M.Div. – for major seminarians at the main campus in Yonkers), Master of Arts in Theology (MA Theo – for students at the Yonkers, Huntington, Douglaston and Poughkeepsie locations), and Master of Arts in Catholic Philosophical Studies (MACPS – for students at the Douglaston location).

Program Completion Rate:
 
Saint Joseph’s Seminary has been offering the M.Div. degree program to seminarians in priestly formation since 1961 and, on average, seminarians in the program complete their degrees in 4 years, although extensions can be granted for various reasons.
 
The MA Theo degree program has been offered since 1987 and, until 2012, was completed within one year.  With the 2012 Interdiocesan partnership, the expansion of the Seminary’s Mission and subsequent curriculum revisions in 2013, students presently pursuing the MA Theo degree generally finish within 4 years, although they have up to six years to complete the program. 
 
The Seminary began offering the MACPS Program in 2013 and students typically finish the degree within two years, although they are allowed up to six years to complete their studies.   
 
The Program completion rates of the Seminary’s academic degree programs are as follows:
 

• Master of Divinity Degree: 81.7% Completion Rate
  • New Enrollees from 2003-2013: 153
  • Students completing their degrees from 2007-2017: 125
• Master of Arts in Theology: 85.4% Completion Rate
  • New Enrollees from 2007-2015: 137
  • Students completing their degrees from 2008-2017: 117
• Master of Arts in Catholic Philosophical Studies Degree: 93.8%
  • New Enrollees from 2013-2015: 16
  • Students completing their degrees from 2015-2017: 15

 
Employment Placement Rate:

All of the seminarians who completed their Master of Divinity at Saint Joseph’s Seminary between 2007 and 2017 have been ordained as Catholic Priests and serve in their own local Dioceses, Eparchies or Religious Communities. The employment placement rate for these graduates is 100%.

Students in the MA Theo program pursue the degree for various ministerial, personal and professional reasons.  Of the Seminary’s 117 MA Theo graduates over the past ten years, 113 are currently utilizing their degree for ministerial or professional purposes, yielding an employment placement rate of 96.6%.

Because the MACPS program is relatively new, the only students who have completed the degree thus far at Saint Joseph’s Seminary are currently full-time seminarians pursuing Theology studies for ordination to the Priesthood and are not yet employed.  Thus, there is no data to report at this time regarding the employment placement rate of these graduates.  However, given the intimate relationship between Philosophy and Theology, they all are presently utilizing their degrees in their Theology studies.