Name: Houston Baptist University
Location: Houston, TX
Founded: 1960
What, really? Only 56 years ago? Actually, only 53 years ago.
How the hell does that work? After eight years of preparatory work, including finding the land for the university, the Baptist General Convention of Texas elected the Board of Trustees of HBU in 1960. The trustees then convened and approved the school’s first charter on November 15, 1960. They didn’t actually start teaching anyone until September of 1963 when they admitted their first freshman class, and didn’t have four classes of students on campus at once until September 1966.