ĭuring the 1846 school year Baylor leaders would begin including chapel as part of the Baylor educational experience. Rufus Columbus Burleson, future Baylor president, in the Brazos River. In 1854, Houston was also baptized by the Rev. The noted Texas revolutionary war leader and hero Sam Houston gave the first $5,000 donation to start the university. Although these three men are credited as being the founders of the university, many others worked to see the first university established in Texas and thus they were awarded Baylor's Founders Medal. He is considered the third founding father of the university. James Huckins, the first Southern Baptist missionary to Texas, was Baylor's first full-time fundraiser. The founders built the original university campus in Independence, Texas. Republic President Anson Jones signed the Act of Congress on February 1, 1845, officially establishing Baylor University. In fall 1844, the Texas Baptist Education Society petitioned the Congress of the Republic of Texas to charter a Baptist university. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference in the NCAA Division I. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.īaylor University's athletic teams, known as the Bears, participate in 19 intercollegiate sports. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity". As of fall, 2021, Baylor had a total enrollment of 20,626 (undergraduate 15,191, graduate 5,435). Located on the banks of the Brazos River next to I-35, between the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex and Austin, the university's 1,000-acre (400-hectare) campus is the largest Baptist university in the world. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor University is a private research university in Waco, Texas.
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