Wayland Baptist has 11 campuses in five Texas cities, six states, American Samoa, and Kenya.

[2] In 1906, James Henry Wayland and his wife offered US$10,000 and 25 acres (100,000 m2) of land in Plainview if the Staked Plains Baptist Association and the citizens of the city would raise an additional $40,000.

A During the school's first term, a total of 225 students were taking classes in primary education through junior college.

[3] The school is the oldest institution of higher education in continuous existence on the High Plains of Texas.

When a run on the banks during the Great Depression threatened to close the school, George W. McDonald, the fifth president of the school, other administration officials, and faculty agreed to forgo pay to continue educating students, trusting God to supply their needs.

She enrolled with the consent of James W. "Bill" Marshall, the school's sixth president, making Wayland the first four-year liberal arts college in the former Confederate states to integrate voluntarily.

[5] This action came three years before the Supreme Court banned public school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.

[1] In 2015, Wayland applied for and was granted an exception to Title IX allowing the university to discriminate against LGBT students for religious reasons.

In 2016, the organization Campus Pride ranked the college among the worst schools in Texas for LGBT students.

Initially, math and science courses were taught in several temporary locations on the WBU campus.

Science courses were moved to refurbished army barracks located on the north side of the campus in the 1960s.

By the end of the 2016–2017 season, Tennessee who leads all NCAA DI schools, had 1,252 wins, followed by Louisiana Tech with 1,199 and Connecticut with 1,118.

[29] Hutcherson provided three sets of uniforms, plus traveling attire, and flew the team about 9,000 miles a year to games.

[30] To this day, Hutcherson Air Service continues to provide travel for the women's road games.

Local businessmen, under the leadership of Claude Hutcherson, raised money to privately fund scholarships for a year.

Redin served in the Marine Air Corp in WWII, logging 50 combat missions over the South Pacific.

After the war, he became the athletic director of Wayland Baptist, and the coach of the men's basketball team.

[37] In 2018, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame presented Coach Redin the Bunn Lifetime Achievement award.