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Baylor students living on campus have a wide variety of options. Some choose to live with other students their age; others, with students who have similar academic or extracurricular interests; still others, in faculty-led residential colleges.<\/p>\n
Baylor takes these opportunities seriously, and it shows. Baylor’s learning communities once again rank among U.S. News<\/em>‘ top 10 nationally<\/a> — just behind schools like Yale and Vanderbilt, and ahead of, well, just about everyone else. (The honor ranked Baylor No. 1 in the Big 12, No. 1 in Texas, and No. 1 among large private universities.)<\/p>\n “If a student decides to come to Baylor, they\u2019re going to have, I think in many respects, the best of all worlds,” Dr. Wes Null, vice provost for undergraduate education and academic affairs, told the Baylor Lariat<\/a><\/em>. “A serious research university, an R1 university that\u2019s also deeply committed to its Christian identity, but one that also expects our faculty to be high-quality teachers at the same time. I think we\u2019re occupying a space where we integrate all of those things in a way that\u2019s powerful to students… and I think it\u2019s our Christian mission that enables us to do that.”<\/p>\n First-Year Communities<\/a> are your traditional freshman residence halls (such as Collins and Penland), allowing new students the opportunity to live with other first-year students who have different interests and majors. Upper-Division Communities<\/a> (at University Parks and in North Village) offer something similar, but for upperclassmen, and with the amenities of apartment living.<\/p>\n Living-Learning Communities<\/a> (LLCs) are organized around specific academic programs or extracurricular interests, such as the Science & Health LLC in Earle Hall or the Business & Innovation LLC in Brooks Flats. Students of all classifications live among other students with similar interests or degree plans, sharing special programs and classes together.<\/p>\n Residential Colleges<\/a> are faculty-led communities that foster academic excellence through intensive faculty-student interaction, such as the Honors Residential College in Alexander and Memorial. Students of all classifications enjoy a special sense of community through events and activities that help connect them with each other and with faculty\/staff.<\/p>\n In addition to the hall director and community leaders, every Baylor residence hall has its own faculty-in-residence<\/a> (a professor who lives in the hall right alongside the students) and resident chaplain<\/a> (a Truett Seminary student who lives on-site to provide spiritual care) to help guide and serve the students who live there.<\/p>\n It’s rare to find such community in a school Baylor’s size. Most of the other schools in U.S. News<\/em>‘ top 25 are either much larger (such as flagship state schools, with massive resources to support such programs) or much smaller (which naturally lends itself to a tighter community). Only one other school of Baylor’s size (between 10,000-20,000 undergraduates) made the top 25 for best learning communities — speaking again to Baylor’s distinct place in the world of higher ed.<\/p>\n Combine that with Baylor’s top-10 recognition for “first-year experience”<\/a> and its rare top-30 ranking for both undergraduate teaching and research<\/a>,\u00a0and you can see why so many find BU to be such a special place.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Baylor students living on campus have a wide variety of options. Some choose to live with other students their age; others, with students who have similar academic or extracurricular interests; still others, in faculty-led residential colleges. 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