Like many black colleges and African American universities across
the country, Philander Smith College was founded on the principles of educating
recently freed slaves. As a four-year undergraduate HBCU, Philander Smith
College offers major and minor degree programs in business, education, social
sciences, arts and physical sciences. Philander Smith College
is known among Historical Black Colleges & Universities as having the
youngest HBCU president, Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough.
