{"id":17172,"date":"2015-09-23T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=17172"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:56:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:56:25","slug":"waco-isnt-the-only-place-to-earn-a-baylor-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/09\/waco-isnt-the-only-place-to-earn-a-baylor-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Waco isn&#8217;t the only place to earn a Baylor degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17175\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/emba-sept15.jpg\" alt=\"emba-sept15\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/emba-sept15.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/emba-sept15-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do aspiring nurses in Dallas have in common with up-and-coming business leaders in Austin? It\u2019s the same thing social workers in Houston share\u00a0with ambitious professionals in the Metroplex and pastors in the Hill Country. In each of these locations, individuals are pursuing Baylor degrees in places that meets their unique personal needs &#8212; places outside of Waco.<\/p>\n<p>Our beautiful campus will always be\u00a0Baylor Nation\u2019s home base, but many students have also found a &#8220;home away from home&#8221;\u00a0outside campus thanks to degree programs that bring Baylor\u00a0to students outside our hometown. Undergraduate and graduate students alike have a number of options to earn a Baylor degree that can enhance their future in a time and place that fits their demanding schedules, across three Texas cities and online:<\/p>\n<p><strong>AUSTIN:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/business\" target=\"_blank\">Hankamer School of Business<\/a> offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/business\/awemba\/\" target=\"_blank\">Executive MBA Program in Austin<\/a> for experienced professionals.\u00a0The EMBA program educates leaders in Texas\u2019 capital city who earn Executive MBA and Executive MBA in Healthcare degrees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/truett\" target=\"_blank\">Truett Seminary<\/a> opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/truett\/index.php?id=98323\" target=\"_blank\">an extension campus in Austin<\/a> in 2013, which offers students the same content and degree offerings as those attending Truett Seminary in Waco full-time. Austin students must take some classes in Waco, but can ease the burden of commuting through the wide array of classes offered in Austin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DALLAS:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/nursing\" target=\"_blank\">Louise Herrington School of Nursing<\/a>\u00a0(LHSON) has provided a Baylor presence in the heart of Dallas since 1950, when Baylor University partnered with an\u00a0existing nursing school established by what would eventually become Baylor University Medical Center. Conveniently located next door\u00a0to the Baylor Health Care System\u2019s flagship campus in Dallas,\u00a0LHSON offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a city with <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2012\/12\/after-merger-baylor-scott-white-health-system-to-be-led-by-baylor-alums\/\" target=\"_blank\">a strong healthcare pedigree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor\u00a0Business has also long run\u00a0an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/business\/demba\/\" target=\"_blank\">Executive MBA Program in Dallas<\/a>, offering professionals throughout DFW the chance to earn Executive MBA and Executive MBA in Healthcare degrees while continuing their careers in the Metroplex and extending the great network of Baylor alumni there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSTON:<\/strong>\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/social_work\" target=\"_blank\">Diana R. Garland School of Social Work<\/a> offers the newest out-of-town opportunity for Baylor students. Social work students can now earn\u00a0their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/social_work\/index.php?id=869112\" target=\"_blank\">master&#8217;s degree in Houston<\/a>. Like Baylor Social Work in Waco, the Houston program is located downtown, in the heart of the community whose needs students serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ONLINE:\u00a0<\/strong>If even those cities aren&#8217;t\u00a0convenient enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinemasters.baylor.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">online MBAs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/nursing\/onlinemsn\/\" target=\"_blank\">online Master of Science in Nursing degrees<\/a> provide opportunities to earn a Baylor degree from almost anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, farflung\u00a0Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do aspiring nurses in Dallas have in common with up-and-coming business leaders in Austin? It\u2019s the same thing social workers in Houston share\u00a0with ambitious professionals in the Metroplex and pastors in the Hill Country. In each of these locations, individuals are pursuing Baylor degrees in places that meets their unique personal needs &#8212; places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}