Welcome. This is an exciting time in the life of HBU. Since its founding in 1960, the University has grown into a thriving community of faith and scholarship offering students "A Higher Education" that prepares them to excel in their careers and succeed in life. Our website is designed to provide you with a variety of information and a glimpse into the steps we are taking to make HBU a leading institution for Christian higher education in America.
From its home in the heart of Houston, Texas, one of the nation's largest and most diverse metropolitan areas, HBU provides a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence. This mission serves as the driving force behind our continued efforts to enrich the total student life experience.
By enhancing our campus facilities, strengthening our rigorous liberal arts core curriculum, expanding our graduate program offerings, and competing in NCAA Division, I athletics, HBU is uniquely positioned to serve both undergraduate and graduate students seeking an excellent education.
As envisioned by its founders and constituents, HBU is growing into a national metropolitan university that emphasizes faith and learning integration and a strong liberal arts foundation. HBU's new vision document, The Ten Pillars: Faith and Reason in a Great City, may be found on the University's website at HBU.edu/TenPillars.The mission of Houston Baptist University is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "Jesus Christ is Lord."
The University offers a broad range of programs and services committed to liberal arts education designed to promote the growth of the whole person. The undergraduate programs familiarize students with the central bodies of knowledge, cultural viewpoints, belief systems, and aesthetic perspectives that affect them and their world. The graduate programs provide advanced educational opportunities to develop ethical and capable scholars and practitioners who can contribute to their academic disciplines and society. The integration of scholarship, service, and spirituality essential to liberal arts education is nurtured in an environment of open inquiry.
The University enrolls men and women of diverse talents and abilities. Students are encouraged to think critically, assess information from a Christian perspective, arrive at informed and reasoned conclusions, and become lifelong learners. The University prepares its graduates to enter the twenty-first-century workforce, pursue advanced study, assume leadership roles, and be competitive in a global society.
The University faculty, staff, and administrators promote learning, scholarship, creative endeavor, and service. These leaders are committed to the Preamble to the By-laws and the fulfillment of the vision and mission of the University.
HBU is committed to academic excellence and our Christian mission to impact our students' lives and change the world! Our deeply established tradition of philanthropy from alumni and friends makes this possible. The generous support of our donors is changing lives every day.
The Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness is the University's official source for institutional research and information. Our primary mission is to collect data, conduct research, and analyze information to provide guidance that supports policy formulation, institutional planning, decision-making, and institutional effectiveness.
Information Technology Services (ITS) provides reliable and effective technology to empower faculty, staff, and students at Houston Baptist University to pursue superior teaching, research, creative and integrated learning activities, and facilitate the efficient administration of the University.
Our core curriculum and major programs are designed from the ground up to help you think, speak, and write with clarity and effectiveness. The classroom is a place to explore the best available knowledge and a place to ask how we use that knowledge ethically. At HBU, you are more than a face in the crowd. We keep our classes small and assign every student an advisor to help them every step of the way. We believe the best learning environment includes a broad diversity of cultural, professional, and relational opportunities—all offered by our great city and on-campus programming.
Houston Baptist College was created by the Baptist General Convention of Texas's action on November 15, 1960, culminating many years of work and study. The aim of the College founders was the establishment of a Christian College of the highest order in the city of Houston that stressed the quality of life as well as the quality of learning. In 1952, the Union Baptist Association authorized a committee to study the possibility of locating a Baptist College in Houston.
With the Education Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas's assistance and encouragement, the committee surveyed in 1955. Acting upon information obtained with the Education Commission's endorsement, the Association approved the concept of establishing a new College. In 1956, the Executive Board of the Baptist General Convention of Texas approved a recommendation that Houston Baptists be given assurance that the Convention would support such a College when the College Committee of the Union Baptist Association had succeeded in acquiring both (1) a good site for a campus of at least one hundred acres, and (2) a minimum corpus of at least three million dollars. Of this sum, one and one-half million dollars would constitute a nucleus endowment fund one, and one-half million dollars would be designated for a physical plant.
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