Baylor is great on academics

Combination of Academics and scholarships. Baylor had a good honours college with a flexible degree program, it was a faith-based school, and they basically paid me to go there. The residential college community was also good.

My degree plan was a kind of make-it-yourself so this does not really apply. I did not have general education requirements but was able to select areas of concentration. This suited me very well, so my opinion is high.

The placement seemed good. I got into multiple graduate programs when I applied, and the grad program I am in now has good luck with placing graduates in jobs in a very tight hiring market. So I am hopeful.

There are on-campus jobs available to undergraduates. They pay low hourly rates. I did not have an internship through the university, but I worked as a student worker during the summers and a tutor during the school year. As a grad student now, I have a fellowship.

Homecoming, Christmas, Easter, a special university-specific holiday called Dia del Oso. Different student organizations would put on festivals and activities throughout the year also that were celebrated.

The tuition is pretty high, given that Baylor is a private university. I think tuition is around 36,000 a year. I never paid for it. Fees are charged above that, as well as a mandatory meal plan and housing for at least freshmen.

I had a lot of financial aid. My tuition was all paid for, with an additional 6000 scholarship from the honours college, a 1000 scholarship from some sort of baptist heritage fund, a 2000 scholarship from National Merit, and I think another scholarship too of around 2500. Additionally, when I studied abroad for a semester, I was given another 4000.

The exams vary from class to class. I get the sense that the professors are usually in charge of picking their own format. Some were essay-based, some multiple-choice, and some professors opted to not have them.

The faculty at Baylor are outstanding. My experience is with humanities professors, and all of them that I met seemed to really care about their students, to know their specialized areas well, and to be good teachers.

I lived in a residential college on campus for my first three years. I shared a dorm room with another girl, and we had a shared bathroom with another room. My senior year, I moved off-campus and into an apartment.