Baylor Business Fellows

Do You Want To:

Study more than one field in depth?
Combine pre-medical or pre-law studies with business?
Receive individualized guidance to identify your career goals and design a degree plan to achieve them?
Have the flexibility to change direction as your career goals evolve and still graduate in four years?
Learn a foreign language and study abroad?
Take the most challenging courses for which you are qualified?
Achieve mastery (not just a superficial knowledge) of business-related skills (math, computer skills, research skills...)?
Become part of a scholarly group?
Have a goal-driven, customized degree plan that maximizes your marketability when you graduate?

Then Baylor Business Fellows is for you.

What Is It?

Baylor Business Fellows is a major leading to a BBA degree. It is designed for gifted, high-achieving students with very high career goals—goals that cannot easily be met through traditional degree programs in four years. It is for students with a genuine intellectual curiosity and desire to excel in business and other fields.

Goal-driven, in-depth advising with an emphasis on depth of knowledge characterizes a Fellows degree. It is not designed to give the student a wide, surface understanding of many academic areas, but to achieve proficiency in a few, well-chosen, areas that fit the student's career goals. A Fellows degree plan is the result of a collaborative effort between the student and his/her advisor to further his/her career objectives based on the student's individual interests and talents.

What is Special About It?

Flexibility: Students have choices in electives and in core business courses. Traditional degrees have 6 - 10 electives, Business Fellows have 30.
Individuality: Each student receives in-depth, one-on-one advising. The goal is to design a unique program for each student that allows for rigorous academic exploration combined with a focused progression toward his/her career goals.
Marketability: Students gain a skill set that enables them to gain acceptance into the job market or graduate school of their choice and be successful when they get there.
Scholarship: Fellows are encouraged to take the most challenging courses within their capabilities in order to maximize the value of their four years at Baylor.
Efficiency: Students can study several areas in depth—not just one (see Additional Majors).

Do I Qualify?

Preference is given to:: Entering freshmen with:; Current Baylor students with very high GPAs under special circumstances