Howard University

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Howard Payne University is a four-to-five-year (depending on degree plan), private university located in Brownwood, Texas. The University is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Currently, the University has almost 1,200 full-time students. Howard Payne is known for its Christian Studies program, the Guy D. Newman Honors Academy, and its Music department. HPU founders named the College after Edward Howard Payne, a Missouri resident. Payne, brother-in-law to John David Robnett, the College's founder, gave the lead monetary gift to start the unit Howard University, one of the nation's leading research universities, is dedicated to educating students from diverse backgrounds at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. Guided by our extraordinary cadre of faculty, students are immersed in cutting-edge scholarship and innovation, including nanotechnology, human genome research, atmospheric science, and the social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Students pursue studies in more than 120 areas within the University's 13 schools and colleges: Arts & Sciences, Business, Communications, Dentistry, Divinity, Education, Engineering, Architecture & Computer Sciences, Graduate School, Law, Medicine, Nursing & Allied Health Sciences, Pharmacy, and Social Work. The University offers Master's Doctoral Professional Joint-Degree and Undergraduate programs.
Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. To date, Howard has awarded more than 120,000 degrees in the arts, the sciences, and the humanities. The historic main campus sits on a hilltop in Northwest Washington, blocks from the storied U Street and Howard Theatre. We are two miles from the U.S. Capitol, where many students intern and scores of alumni shape national and foreign policy.
Howard is a leader in STEM fields. The National Science Foundation has ranked Howard as the top producer of African-American undergraduates who later earn science and engineering doctoral degrees. The University also boasts nationally ranked programs in social work, business and communication sciences, and disorders. In 2013, The Washington Post named Howard "An Incubator for Cinematographers."
The College of Medicine is internationally regarded for its illustrious legacy of training students to become competent and compassionate physicians. They provide health care in medically underserved communities at home and abroad. The College is a national leader in studying health disparities among people of color and is one of America's top institutions for training women surgeons. The Howard University Health Sciences division, includes the Howard University Hospital and the Colleges of Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Nursing and Allied Health Sciences.
For more than 140 years, the Howard University School of Law has served as an advocate for social justice and as an architect of social change. It has produced more than 4,000 social engineers, including the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, noted legislators, civil rights attorneys, mayors, and public officials across the United States. In 2012, the Law School was ranked among the top 20 public service schools by National Jurist magazine.
The University's motto Veritas et Utilitas, Truth and Service, represents a vital part of our identity. The more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students dedicate hundreds of hours each year to service in nearby LeDroit Park, around the nation, and far-flung places around the world. Over the U.S. Peace Corps' 50-year history, more than 200 Howard graduates have served as volunteers worldwide, the highest number among historically-Black colleges. In 2012, a Howard senior who led Engineers Without Borders service projects in Kenya and Brazil was named a White House "Champion of Change."
The University remains committed to further enhancing its strategic positioning as one of the nation's top research universities. As we approached our sesquicentennial in 2017, we are uniquely positioned to have the next 150 years as glorious as the past.
Since 1867, Howard has awarded more than 100,000 degrees in the professions, arts, sciences, and humanities. Howard ranks among the highest producers of the nation's Black professionals in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, nursing, architecture, religion, law, music, social work, and education.
The University has long held a commitment to studying disadvantaged persons in American society and throughout the world. The goal is to eliminate inequities related to race, color, social, economic, and political circumstances. As the only truly comprehensive predominantly Black university, Howard is one of the principal engineers of change in our society. Through its traditional and cutting-edge academic programs, the University seeks to improve all people's circumstances in the search for peace and justice on earth.
Howard has grown from a single-frame building in 1867 and evolved to more than 89 acres, including the six-story, 400-bed Howard University Hospital. Since 1974, it has expanded to include a 22-acre School of Law West Campus, a 22-acre School of Divinity East Campus, and another three-fifths of an acre facility in northeast Washington and a 108-acre tract of land in Beltsville, Maryland.
Howard prepares men and women to advance social justice and the preservation of human liberty. In each of its 13 schools and colleges, Howard University seeks to develop technically competent and morally committed individuals. The University's library system contains more than 1.8 million volumes, including the Channing Pollock Collection. The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for documenting the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world.
The University competes in 19 varsity sports, including basketball, football, bowling, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, and volleyball. Regarded as one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning globally, current enrollment approximates 11,000 students from virtually every state, the District of Columbia, and more than 70 countries. The University traditionally has had the largest gathering of Black scholars in the world.ersity.
HPU offers more than 50 majors, minors, and pre-professional programs within six schools: Science and Math, Business, Christian Studies, Education, Music, Fine Arts, and Humanities. With a student to professor ratio of 11:1 and peer tutoring through the collegium on campus, student success is a priority at HPU.

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