Baylor University

Graduate School

The Graduate School at Baylor University serves students in over a hundred programs across the humanities, arts, and sciences with resources designed to holistically support their academic and professional development. Come and explore what Baylor has to offer.

Numbers

100
Graduate Programs
98
of PhD students admitted with full funding
450
Funded Travel Awards per year
91
Full-time Employment of Doctoral Graduates
May 13, 2025
Michael E. Young, Ph.D., Selected as Vice Provost and Dean of the Baylor University Graduate School

Baylor Provost Nancy Brickhouse, Ph.D., has announced that Michael E. Young, Ph.D., professor of psychological sciences and graduate program director at Kansas State University, has been selected as Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School.

May 7, 2025
Baylor Students Win Boren, Critical Language, Fulbright UK Summer Institute Awards

Baylor University students were awarded scholarships and fellowships, including Boren Awards, Critical Language Scholarships and a Fulbright UK Summer Institutes award.

May 6, 2025
Initial findings from Baylor’s Global Flourishing Study draw worldwide attention

Last week, Baylor released the first-wave findings of the Global Flourishing Study — one of the most comprehensive studies of human existence ever undertaken, and the largest funded research project in Baylor history.

How big a deal is this study? The coverage it attracted is one indication; the results were widely covered in major media outlets ranging from The New York Times to National Geographic to CNN to Christianity Today (and more).

Mar. 27, 2025
Baylor Departments & Waco Collaborate to Present "Waco's Latina Changemakers" Panel

As part of Women’s History Month, members of Baylor’s History Department, in collaboration with the John and Nancy Jackson Chair for Baylor in Latin America, have organized a panel featuring perspectives from Latina “changemakers” whose activism and careers have made the city of Waco a more just and equitable place.