PhD in Philosophy

Baylor University

Baylor began offering the PhD in philosophy in the 2001-2002 school year. At that time, fellowship funding for the terminal MA degree, which Baylor had offered since 1950, ceased being offered. Baylor has placed PhDs at such schools as Biola University, Georgetown College, Georgetown University, Houston Baptist University, Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary, and West Georgia State University.Currently about 30 PhD students are actively working on the degree. The average GRE scores for the 2015 and 2016 incoming classes were: Verbal 164, Quantitative 158 and Analytical Writing 5.3. We usually admit 3-6 new students each year. Baylor is becoming known for the unusually collegial relationships that prevail within its philosophy PhD community. Our graduate students are quite active in presenting papers at American Philosophical Association meetings and other professional conferences, and in recent years have had papers accepted by such journals as Faith and Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy East and West, Res Philosophica, Synthese and Religious Studies.

College of Arts and Sciences