Paul Quinn College

Paul Quinn College 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, we proudly educate students of all races and socio-economic classes under the banner of our institutional ethos, WE over Me. Our mission is to provide a quality, faith-based education that addresses the academic, social, and Christian development of students.

The mission of the College is to provide 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.

Let’s get this out of the way up front – The goal is greatness. Greatness for you and for those you will lead. At Paul Quinn College, we take people and transform them into Quinnites. Quinnites are leaders who value the harder right over the easier wrong and live to bring light to darkness and give hope to the hopeless. This journey will not be easy, it is not supposed to be. However, for those people who feel called to change the lives of others, there is no better place for you to be.

We are committed to working with you and will work diligently for every family to explore funding opportunities. At PQC, we employ a multitude of options from grants to scholarships to Veteran’s benefits to our Work program and federal and private loans, as a last resort. To take advantage of these options, families can receive counseling as needed.

We pride ourselves in having one of the lowest tuition models in the state of Texas, called the Urban Tuition Model. This makes your investment more affordable, along with a simplified process during the application process.

Beginning in the fall of 2015, Paul Quinn College adopted a new student financial structure called the “New Urban College Model” which, among other characteristics, reduced student tuition and fees and provides students with the ability to graduate with less than $10,000 of student loan debt. The centerpiece of the New Urban College Model is Paul Quinn’s decision to become the country’s only urban Work College. There are currently eight work colleges in the nation. Paul Quinn is the ninth federally funded work college in the United States, the first Minority Serving Institution (“MSI”) in the Work College Consortium, and the first work college in Texas.

The vision of the Paul Quinn College Work Program is to transform ability into action and potential into achievement by encouraging all students to embrace the ideals of disciplined work, servant leadership, and initiative in preparation for lives of financial freedom, community engagement, and outstanding character.