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    Paul Quinn College

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    • Listing Type: Colleges & Universities
    • Top Majors: Biological Sciences, Business and Entrepreneurship, Communications, Education, Health Care, Law, Liberal Arts
    • Type: Private, Nonprofit
    • Degrees Awarded: 4 Year
    • Campus Setting: Urban
    • Testing Requirements: Test Optional
    • Financial Aid: Grants/Scholarships, Loans, Work Study
    • Gender: Coed
    • Country: United States
    • In State Tuition: $22,248
    • Out of State Tuition: $24,058
    • Delivery: Day, Residential, Online
    • Affiliation: Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU)
    • Religious Affiliation: None
    • CEEB: 6577
    • IPED: 227429
    • Location:Dallas, Texas
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    Overview

    Paul Quinn College, one of the most innovative small colleges in America, is a private, faith-based, four-year, liberal arts-inspired college that was founded on April 4, 1872 by a group of African Methodist Episcopal Church preachers in Austin, Texas. The school’s original purpose was to educate freed slaves and their offspring.

    Today, Paul Quinn has become a model for urban higher education by focusing on academic rigor, experiential learning, and entrepreneurship.

    Paul Quinn College, a finalist on the 2013 Presidents Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll and the 2011 HBCU of the Year, is a private, faith-based, four-year liberal arts-inspired college founded by and affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The College was founded in Austin, Texas, on April 4, 1872, and is one of the nations consortium of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The College provides a quality, faith-based education that addresses the academic, social, and Christian development of students and prepares them to be servant leaders and agents of change in the global marketplace. Members of the Colleges student body, alumni, faculty and staff, called Quinnites, embrace the institutional ethos of WE over Me and are dedicated to honouring the Four Ls of Quinnite Leadership, which are: Leave places better than you found them; Lead from wherever you are; Live a life that matters; and Love something greater than yourself.