page_title: Baylor University
section_title: Institutional organization
hierarchical_section_title: Baylor University / Academics / Institutional organization
caption_attribution_description: English: This building houses the university president's office.
context_page_description: Baylor University, or simply Baylor, is a private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered under a different name in 1845, by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Now operating under a different charter, Baylor is the oldest continuously operating universities in Texas and one of the first educational institutions west of the Mississippi River in the United States. Upon the banks of the Brazos River next to I-35, between the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and Austin, the university's 1,000-acre campus is Earth's largest Baptist University. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.
  Baylor University's athletic teams, known as the Bears, participate in 19 intercollegiate sports. The university is a member of the Big 12 Conference in the NCAA Division I.
context_section_description: The university is divided into twelve degree-granting academic units.  Three of the units are designated as colleges, while eight others are designated as schools and one is a seminary. They are:
  College of Arts & Sciences
  Diana R. Garland School of Social Work
  George W. Truett Theological Seminary
  Graduate School
  Hankamer School of Business
  Honors College
  Law School
  Louise Herrington School of Nursing
  Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences
  School of Education
  School of Engineering & Computer Science
  School of Music
caption: Pat Neff Hall houses the office of the university's president and others
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