Men's colleges in the United States

The few remaining well-known men's colleges are traditional independent liberal arts colleges, though at present the majority are preparatory institutions for religious vocations, primarily in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish traditions which permit only male clergy.

The Department of Justice argued that since VMI was a public institution, it could not prevent women from attending based on gender alone.

[6] Deep Springs College in California, a small two-year school with approximately two dozen students, began admitting women in 2018.

[10][11] Taking inspiration from Williamson, the Harmel Academy was opened in 2020 as a Catholic vocational school for men.

[14] In each of these cases, the individual colleges have their own residence systems, advisors, staff, student governments, and traditions separate from their male or female counterpart.

While some Roman Catholic seminaries offer degrees limited to men, often, but not necessarily the MDiv, as of 2024, a number of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States offer degrees to women, and are thus no longer exclusively colleges for men only.

This is not an exhaustive list of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States, but instead only includes institutions that are confirmed to offer degrees exclusively to men.

Minor seminaries generally confer degrees at the associate's level before students transfer to other institutions for further study.

Hampden–Sydney College , founded in 1775, is the oldest of only three non-religious, four-year, all-male colleges in the U.S.
Morehouse College is the nation's only historically Black men's college and the largest of the three private, non-religious, four-year, all-male colleges in the U.S.