Baylor University

Date: Dec 21 2007
Major: Economics (This Major's Salary over time)
The real world (esp. outside of Texas)has certainly heard of Baylor, most frequently they incorrectly associate the university with the medical school. Otherwise, it is associated with Southern Baptists. The degree remains academically prestigious, but is colored by the world's view of evangelical Christianity, which is generally unfavorable.

Graduates however are generally well received in the corporate world and are perceived both as having a work ethic and as working ethically.

Those who consider matriculating at Baylor should be advised that fitting in with the Christian/Greek/financially well-off sterotype may be important if you do not have a naturally independent attitude about who and what you are. Although I was in a fraternity and I am a Christian (although not Baptist), any tendencies toward too much party time versus pew time was meet with some opprobrium.

Also, you tend to get some "who's your daddy" attitudes, as the females are well trained to discriminate between those who either have law, medicine, or a family business/inheritance waiting down the good ol' Baylor line. And there is a reason that the male/female ratio is skewed toward females—just ask any Southern Baptist daddy who can afford the tuition why.

On balance, however, I am proud of my education and would attend Baylor again, at least as I remember it.