Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and by the Association of Theological Schools. Comprising one institution under a common administration, it consists of three divisions: College, Religious Studies and Theology.

The College Division shares and implements the philosophy of the overall formation program at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. Its specific programs are designed to clarify vocational awareness and to prepare seminarians for entrance into the Theology Division.
By providing a challenging context for prayer, study, and social experience, the College Division assists each seminarian in making his vocational commitment with discernment and reasonable certitude. Its programs seek to impart maturing insights appropriate to the initial phases of priestly formation.

The various programs of the College Division provide the seminarian with the human, spiritual, intellectual, and apostolic resources that he will need as a priest. Assisted by the structures of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary College Division, each seminarian can mature in his identification with Christ, with the Church, and with the people whom he will one day serve as a priest.

The Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary Formation Program is intended to aid the seminarian as he integrates the development of the various aspects of his life as elaborated in Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation, Pastores Dabo Vobis, viz., the human, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral (cf. also The Program of Priestly Formation, 257). Priestly formation is the work of the entire faculty but, in particular, the focus of the College Formation Committee.