Your New Student Experience combines courses and programs designed to help you transition well to the rigorous academic environment at Baylor. These experiences strengthen your mind, body, and soul for an academic career at Baylor, and more importantly, your life at home or abroad after graduation as a worldwide leader.
NSE Objectives
By the end of your first year at Baylor, you will:
- Connect to Baylor
- Develop Autonomy
- Succeed Academically
- Engage in Spiritual Formation
- Develop Personal and Professional Goals
- Understand Baylor's Mission
NSE Components
Orientation (June)
Line Camp (July)
Welcome Week Fall (August)
Welcome Weekend Spring (January)
- Move-in Day
- Small groups lead by upperclassmen
- Academic Convocation (fall)
- Friday Night Dinner
New Student Experience Courses
- College Reading and Study Skills (EDC 1200)
- The Examined Life I (BIC 1212)
- Freshman Academic Seminars (FAS)
- First Year Seminars (FYS)
- World History to 1500 (limited sections)
Parents Weekend (September)
