Baylor University

Baylor University is a private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas. It was founded in 1845 by the Baptist Education Society of the Republic of Texas and is the oldest continuously operating university in the state. It remains affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and combines a Christian university identity with doctoral and professional schools.

Graduate work is offered through the College of Arts and Sciences, the Hankamer School of Business, the School of Engineering and Computer Science, the School of Education, the Louise Herrington School of Nursing, the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor Law School, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and the Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences. Business, law, health professions, and theology are major graduate draws. Research groups in materials and biomedical science sit on the Waco campus; Baylor College of Medicine in Houston is a separate institution.

Enrollment is about 20,000, including roughly 5,000 graduate and professional students. Students come from all 50 states and about 90 countries; international enrollment is modest relative to large public research universities. Alumni include Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson, federal judge Priscilla Owen, and a large body of Texas lawyers, clergy, and clinicians.

Graduate degrees include the PhD, JD, MBA, DNP, MDiv, and MSW. Truett and Law follow professional curricula; the sciences use laboratory supervision. The calendar is the semester. Assistantships, seminary scholarships, and law-school aid are common forms of support. Campus life is concentrated on the Brazos River campus in Waco, a mid-sized city between Dallas and Austin.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Baylor University lists 105 graduate programs across 32 subjects: 54 master's programs and 39 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, music and health & medical sciences.