Choose the path that will enable you to make a difference. Push yourself beyond your limitations to learn the critical skills and practical knowledge needed to accomplish greatness. The Honors College will challenge you with rigorous, highly engaging classes and meaningful work experience.
Gain the skills needed to make a positive impact.
Courses are intentionally designed to teach you how to drive change in your career, your community, and beyond.
Learn from anywhere in engaging virtual classes.
Classes meet online, with you, your professors, and peers together in a fully active learning environment, called Forum™.
Get an exceptional education at a lower cost.
Tuition is much less than a traditional degree program and generous financial aid helps you afford this incredible education.
Earn your bachelor’s degree in this unique honors program designed to prepare you for leadership in your community and career.
Join other ambitious honors students to realize your highest potential.
Applications for Fall 2022 are now open!
Challenging Academics
As a first-year Honors College student, you will take nine Foundations courses that introduce the interdisciplinary skills and concepts you need for success in your upper-level courses and professional work. In the second year, you will select your major, focusing on a specific degree path.
Foundations Courses
| Strategic Learning and Growth | Critique and Communication | Systems and Society |
| Expressive Clarity | Applying Creative and Critical Thinking | Deriving Insights from Evidence |
| Applied Algorithmic Thinking | Statistical Insights from Data | Interpretation, Communication, and Design |
strategic learning and growth
This course provides tools for students to reflect, plan, and act in ways that will allow them to learn new skills and reach goals more effectively. Students study key scientific findings related to learning and executive functioning and practice creating habits that promote self-awareness, knowledge acquisition, efficient planning, and careful decision making. The course will focus on instilling a growth mindset and developing practical strategies for engaging in continuous cycles of reflection and learning.
Expressive clarity
This course focuses on clarity and style in communication. Students develop an understanding of why great writing and speaking matter and learn how to use effective word choice, phrasing, sentence structure, and tone across a variety of mediums.
applied quantative thinking
In this course, students study topics in mathematics that are directly applicable to daily life. A key goal of the course is for students to develop intuitions about how to use mathematics to solve concrete problems, as opposed to just memorizing formulas or procedures to pass an exam. Students come away from this course with the knowledge and confidence to tackle real-world problems using mathematical tools and strategies.
Traditionally offered majors table
Intentionally designed to blend the groundbreaking urban work college program at PQC with the highly engaging active learning approach developed by our partner, Minerva Project, the Honors College is a first-of-its-kind opportunity for ambitious and highly motivated students who want to challenge themselves and develop the knowledge, habits, and critical skills required to succeed in today’s evolving and highly competitive global workplace.
To become effective in business, entrepreneurs and leaders need an understanding of corporate and market dynamics and structure, the strategies and mechanics behind transactions, and the operational complexity involved in creating and managing a company - whether a local small business or a global enterprise - while taking a new idea from proposal to profitability. With a focus on interdisciplinary skills and practical knowledge, the Honors Business major prepares you to drive innovative change in diverse organizations.
Forum Classes
Every class session is highly interactive and deeply engaging, using an innovative virtual learning environment, called Forum. The platform is built to enable Minerva’s fully active, evidence-based learning methodology. Forum classes are designed to push you to interact with your professors and classmates and engage in diverse activities.
Your ongoing participation and growth are what matters, not high-stakes exam scores. Forum also gives you and your professors visibility into your performance over time on specific learning outcomes, not arbitrary letter grades.
Your classes will teach you to question assumptions, analyze information, perform simulations, and create new solutions to the problems that matter most.
Connect with a supportive learning community.
Join the Quinnite Nation.
Tuition and Aid
You can choose from two low-cost ways to learn in the Honors College: a hybrid campus-based experience, and a fully remote option that lets you attend from anywhere with even lower tuition and fees. Both options include engaging classes in the Forum virtual learning environment.
Financial Aid:
Honors students are highly competitive for internal and external scholarships, grants, and other forms of financial aid.
Submit a Financial Aid application for scholarship consideration.
You can also contact honorscollege@pqc.edu today to learn more about the generous financial aid packages exclusively offered to Honors students.
Become a leader for tomorrow, starting today.
Push yourself to excel.
Program Partnership
Get the benefits of our collaboration with Minerva, a leading educational innovator.
The Honors College was built in collaboration with Minerva, creator of the most advanced education system in the world. Your learning experience blends Paul Quinn’s groundbreaking urban work college, with Minerva’s pioneering approach to skills development based on the science of learning.
Together with work experience, the interdisciplinary courses, engaging virtual classes, and outcomes-based evaluations will enable you to develop the knowledge, habits, and critical skills required to make a meaningful impact.
Requirements for Admission
Prospective Honors College students are encouraged to complete their WE/Me Application (transcripts, letter of recommendation, resume) before applying to the Honors College. To apply to the Honors College, prospective students will submit a secondary Honors College application, which is available here.
Interested students should email honorscollege@pqc.edu to connect with an honors admissions counselor and be first on the list to receive an Honors application.
Admission to the Honors College requires a minimum GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Standardized test scores are recommended but not required. (Preferred: 24+ ACT; 1150+ SAT).
Questions?
Contact dedicated Honors College enrollment agents today. They are more than happy to answer your questions about this innovative program.