Baylor’s interior design program is one of the school’s smaller programs; in 2006-07, only one of the 2,400 bachelor’s degrees awarded by the University was in interior design. But that’s not stopping the program from bringing in accolades for Baylor. Last month, students claimed first and second place awards at the Texas Chapter of the […]
Head coach Scott Drew’s Baylor men’s basketball team purposely put together a tougher non-conference schedule this year to prepare the team for Big 12 play, and the squad is proving up to the challenge. Over the past three days, the men defeated Wichita State, Notre Dame and Winthrop to win the Paradise Jam championship. Notre […]
On Monday, we wrote about the results USA Today ran from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Today, we’ve got some more interesting data from the survey. Baylor clearly outshines its peers in two questions that encompass the entire college experience. First-year students and seniors were each asked “How would you evaluate your entire educational […]
According to data gathered by USA Today, Baylor students are happier with their college choice than students at similar schools across virtually all areas of the college academic experience. Over 250 universities across the country shared their data from the National Survey of Student Engagement with USA Today. The publication categorized Baylor as a high-research […]
If you were at this weekend’s Homecoming football game against Texas Tech, then you saw five Baylor honorees presented with the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service: Dr. Paul Armitstead (pictured at right with his daughters), Dr. Kent Gilbreath, Ann Reed, Julie Hermansen Turner, and Jim Turner. Dr. Armitstead is the only one I’ve […]
Fresh on the heels of their recognition by The Princeton Review comes word that Baylor Law School students have once again claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. 91 of the 93 Baylor students who took the test in July passed it on the first try (98%). Baylor also led the […]
No, this isn’t a repeat post. About a month ago, we were talking about how Baylor led the Big 12 (again) in football graduation rates. Yesterday, the NCAA released numbers pertaining to the athletic department as a whole, and for the second straight year, Baylor’s student-athletes lead the Big 12 Conference in Graduation Success Rate. […]
It’s a sign of just how good the Baylor women’s basketball program has become that having the Lady Bears make the preseason top 25 is now the norm; this year, the Lady Bears are ranked 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th, depending on which poll you look at. Baylor has been among the preseason top 25 […]
The world of law is a competitive one, so when you hear that the Princeton Review named Baylor Law School the second most competitive law school in the country, it really stands out. According to the Review, the ranking is based on how much time students spend studying outside of class, the level of competition […]
Baylor professor Dr. James Garven took the mandate to “fling our green and gold afar” quite seriously this summer. Garven was selected by a group of 13 Australian universities as one of three professors from across the globe to appear at a financial conference in Brisbane, Australia, in July. There, he spoke to a select […]
