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Paul Quinn College
Dallas, Texas · Private · Four-year · Founded 1872
paulquinn.edu · official site
Founding
Paul Quinn College was founded on April 4, 1872, by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, as the Connectional School for the Education of Negro Youth. It moved to Waco in 1877 and was chartered by the State of Texas as Paul Quinn College in 1880.
Source: Mission, Vision and History, Paul Quinn College, read 2026-09-14.
As the Department of Education lists it
- Campus address
- 3837 Simpson Stuart Rd, Dallas, TX 75241
- Control
- Private not-for-profit
- IPEDS unit id
- 227429
- OPE id
- 00360200
- Federal student aid
- Participates in Title IV federal student aid
- Title III Part B list, FY 2026
- Listed
- On the map
- Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 3837 SIMPSON STUART RD, DALLAS, TX, 75241. See it on the Ledger map.
No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 227429. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
- U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
- Mission, Vision and History, Paul Quinn College. https://paulquinn.edu/mission-vision-history/. Read 2026-09-14.
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.
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