Center for Global Engagement
Bringing the World to Baylor. Sending Baylor to the World.
The Center for Global Engagement seeks to coordinate and facilitate the efforts of individuals and groups throughout the campus to transform the world through international travel, research, and study, through the development of greater cultural competency and understanding, and through support for an increasingly diverse campus community.
Explore the world and gain invaluable opportunities to grow professionally and personally by immersing in different world cultures.
The International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) Office provides guidance and support to those at Baylor who have an F-1 visa or J-1 visa, helping them with their initial transition to Baylor and their connection to the Baylor experience.
Global Baylor recognizes that students who are both academically and cross-culturally prepared should be able to adapt and succeed in a diverse and multicultural world.
Our program provides a pathway for students who are fully qualified to enter Baylor University undergraduate programs but still need to improve their English.
Our mission is to create meaningful and sustainable partnerships with institutions around the world. We aim to provide our students, faculty, and staff with opportunities for academic exchange, research collaboration, cultural immersion, and international engagement that enrich their educational journey and contribute to global solutions.
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Read More NewsWith summer coming to an end, most Baylor University students returned to campus after spending their vacation at home or with family. Others, however, took a different route and spent their summer exploring the world through Baylor’s Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences study abroad programs. Join us now, as we look back at a recap of the summer’s study abroad trips!
The International Student Association at Baylor is a student organization for those who want to find their own communities or are interested in global cultures.
Shanghai, China junior and ISAB president Yijin Zhou said ISAB creates a cooking class with other organizations every month and has a professor panel in October. The professor panel will invite international professors to share about their own experiences.
All throughout campus, Baylor faculty and students utilize their God-given gifts and passions to address the world’s greatest challenges through research. Their work and its impact exemplify the Baylor mission in action. Truly, they are “Baylor in Deed” to those who benefit from advances in health, engineering or technology or are served by resources that provide access to food and clean water or bridge disabilities across a wide spectrum of human need.
This research impacts neighbors close to home and around the world. It reflects Baylor’s unique position as a Christian research university. Through the years, the University’s size has grown as has its influence and impact. The Baylor motto now reads Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana, Pro Mundo: “For the Church, for Texas, for the World.” The addition of Pro Mundo to Baylor’s 173-year old motto is rooted in our Christian mission that is global in scale. It further captures our commitment to deepen Baylor’s impact beyond state and national borders to countries and peoples around the globe.
As Baylor strives to recruit more international students as part of its Baylor in Deeds strategic plan, part of that process includes ensuring international students adjust and transition to life in America.
Baylor’s First Year International Program includes GBL 1205 Transition to the U.S. University and Transition to the U.S. University Workshops. All undergraduate students with F-1 visas need to choose one to complete, according to Matthew Piech, a lecturer in the Global Gateway Program.
“Previously, they could select to participate, but this semester they’re actually being required as part of their new students experience,” Piech said.