Patrick Henry College
Higher EducationVirginia, United States201-500 Employees
Patrick Henry College is a higher education institution located in Purcellville, Virginia. It offers a baccalaureate education organized around a 63-credit core plus foreign language proficiency, with courses in logic, rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, science, history, literature, theology, apologetics, economics, and political theory. The curriculum follows a classical liberal arts framework that emphasizes the progression from knowledge to understanding to application and culminates in an apprenticeship that applies students' learning in their field of study. The college is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award bachelor’s degrees, and is also accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges & Schools and certified to operate by the Virginia State Council of Higher Education. It sits within the higher education sector as a Christian liberal arts institution serving students seeking a broad-based undergraduate education grounded in their faith. Recent developments include hiring a theology professor in 2025 and participation in the Transatlantic Dialogue competition in Paris, where PHC teams earned second and third place.