Honors College

Love truth, kindle faith, and cultivate virtue in friendship, study, and service to Christ and neighbor.

The Honors College's diverse academic offerings help undergraduates pursue questions that often fall between the cracks of the specialized disciplines, by exploring the writings of scientists along with the writings of poets, historians, and philosophers.

1400
Students
90
Majors Represented
1000000
in Stackable Honors College Scholarships Awarded Annually
14
Student/Faculty Ratio

Benefits

The Honors College brings together a community of students and faculty devoted to the love of learning, to the cultivation of wonder, and to pursuing life’s most important questions both within and outside of the classroom. Students engage in rich conversations with prominent faculty through our five distinct opportunities.

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Honors Residential College

The Honors Residential College (HRC) is an optional multi-year community that fosters intellectual, moral, and spiritual formation through friendship, integrated study, community service, and spiritual engagement. The HRC is home to 330 Baylor students enrolled in one of the Honors College majors or programs above. The HRC is located in Alexander and Memorial Halls.

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Jul. 18, 2025
Dean's Update - July 18, 2025

Caroline Simon's new book, Muted Cry: A Witness to Affliction, is redolent of Will Campbell’s Brother to a Dragonfly and C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed. In it, she unites memoir, prose elegy, and Christian meditation in touching witness to her brother. Her truth-telling—about her brother Bill, herself, their trials, and God’s love in Christ—bears the marks of anguish and heroism, and of hard-won wisdom and abiding faith. Muted Cry is a rare gift in its honesty and invitation to see, really see, affliction even when it frightens and dismays.

Jul. 11, 2025
Rare Intact Etruscan Tomb in Italy Discovered by International Baylor-led Archaeological Research Team

A team of archaeologists, led by Baylor University’s Davide Zori, Ph.D., and the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project, has uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb in central Italy.

Jul. 2, 2025
Baylor Hosts Inaugural Examined Life Scholars Program for Local High School Students

For two weeks this summer, 12 high school students from the Waco area studied the works of Plato and Aristotle, explored life on Baylor's campus, and got a glimpse of the college experience as part of the university’s inaugural Examined Life Scholars (ELS) Program.

Jun. 30, 2025
Meet Baylor’s nationally recognized expert on ethics & culture

One frequent criticism of higher education is that its findings often remain locked in the “ivory tower,” rather than being shared with the “real world.”

Dr. Thomas Hibbs is the counterpoint to that — a longtime dean (and even university president) who has consistently applied his knowledge to current events and popular culture and used mass media to share those insights.