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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Jun. 16, 2025
Dean's Update - June 16, 2025

I once taught a great texts course on how to live well in light of our mortality. We read Sophocles’ Oedipus cycle, Plato’s Apology, Seneca’s On the Brevity of Life, St. Gregory’s On the Soul and the Resurrection, Petrarch’s Secretum, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents, Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, Camus’ Stranger, and Robinson’s Gilead. The material was great, the students were good, and I was at least adequate. For all that, I wonder if the course succeeded. It’s a tall order to get college students (or any of us) to think—to really think—about the inevitability of death and how to live each day accordingly.

Jun. 13, 2025
Sarah Walden, Ph.D., Appointed Director of University Scholars

Baylor University’s Honors College is proud to welcome Sarah Walden, Ph.D., as the new Director of the University Scholars program. A Baylor alumna and long-serving faculty member in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core (BIC) where she is Associate Professor of Rhetorical Criticism and Theory, Walden brings a rich background in interdisciplinary teaching and a deep personal connection to the program she now leads.

May 28, 2025
Michael Stegemoller, Ph.D., Appointed Associate Dean for Faculty in the Honors College

Baylor University’s Honors College is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Stegemoller, Ph.D., as Associate Dean for Faculty, effective June 1. Dr. Stegemoller currently serves as the Harriette L. and Walter G. Lacy, Jr., Chair of Banking and Finance in the Hankamer School of Business, where he has taught since 2010, including a six-year stint as department chair.

 

May 27, 2025
Honors College Alumna Returns as Honors Residential College Program Director

The Baylor Honors College is pleased to announce the appointment of Lizzy Rice, B.A. ’23, as program director for the Honors Residential College (HRC), beginning June 1.