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Waco is much maligned by Baylor students. Students love the campus but have choice words for the Waco location, calling it dirty, uneventful, and boring. The popular student platitude is “I love Baylor, but I hate Waco..." despite the presence of the world-renowned Dr. Pepper Museum. Downtown Waco has its share of nightclubs and bars to occasionally satiate the college crowd, as well as a selection of stores and restaurants. But the city's infrastructure is slowly decaying, and Waco's leaders have been slow in rehabilitating the town’s center. Students are quick to point out they do not generally feel safe in Waco at night and try to avoid the town as much as possible. Many students prefer to drive two hours to reach Dallas or Austin for the weekends.

While the town of Waco is often a turn-off for visiting students, the campus itself is quite impressive. Many of the campus' major academic buildings are classic Victorian, and sprawling gardens and green meadows abound (the Founders Mall stretches through the middle of campus, like a green version of the Reflecting Pool in D.C. The spires on the buildings light up at night and the inside of Browning Library, with its stained glass windows and otherwise pristine qualities, looks straight out of a classic southern novel. The bells inside the tower of the main administrative building, Pat Neff Hall, chime loudly during the day, and the Pat Neff dome lights up in green every time Baylor wins a sporting event. The facilities are all top notch, with the SLC workout/rec facility and the Baylor Sciences Building as major draws. The 500,000 square-foot science building is one of the largest science facilities in the state. Students can hang out at Common Grounds coffee shop, or shoot pool in the SUB – both are open late during the week. With all the improvements that Baylor is making before 2012 (according to the strategic Baylor 2012 Plan) there will no doubt be more improvements and construction projects to come.

Per the Baylor 2012 plan, the university is trying hard to keep more students on campus during their four years. Only 35% of students currently live on campus, partially because of how quickly Baylor’s population is increasing. Incoming freshmen have seven dorms to choose from, and there are eleven dorms altogether. All dorms are single-sex, but there are four coed apartment buildings that house upperclassmen. Even as the freshman class has been expanding, 2004 was the first year that a new dormitory was built. North Village is an apartment-style dorm with a courtyard, garden, café, and area for studying. In 2006, Brooks Hall, the oldest dorm on campus, was torn down to make room for Brooks Village, which holds three times more students than Brooks Hall. New developments include the construction of Brooks Flats and Brooks College, Baylor's first coed dorm.

The Baylor Bears play in Division I of the Big 12 Conference. They’ve won two recent NCAA championships, men’s tennis in 2004 and women’s basketball in 2005.