Colorado, Illinois and Missouri and New York have Archdiocesan seminaries to train priests who do not have any affililation with a specific religious order. The Quigley seminary in Illinois offers scholarships to high school aged men who are part of a family that regularly worships at a weekly Mass, and who spend time in prayer daily. The other schools are for high school graduates.
Pontifical College Josephinum in Ohio has a college level, pre-theological school, and a seminary that attracts an international student body and provides an education for priests to serve the worldwide church. It focuses on forming future priests in pastoral, intellectual, spiritual and human aspects of their being.
Washington Theological Union in the nation's capital has a large student body, and is one of the largest Catholic seminaries in the U.S. It was formed when six religious orders merged their seminaries into one after Vatican II. Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California features Dominican, Franciscan and Jesuit seminaries as three of the nine denominational seminaries that make up GTU. Students take classes together with students from Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Unitarian Universalist seminaries and the interdenominational Pacific School of Religion. Catholic Theological Union in Chicago is supported by 25 religious communities and is also a founding member of the Association of Chicago Theological schools that includes 10 other member schools.
Benedictines emphasize ongoing conversion of the heart and liturgical excellence. St John's School of Theology in Collegeville, Minnesota educates a large number of Benedictines. Jesuits have Ignatian spiritual exercises to help one make a complete self-offering to Christ. Franciscans serve the poor, Dominicans are teachers and preachers. Archdiocesan and Pontifical seminaries are not affiliated with any specific order.