Dallas Baptist University

Dallas Baptist University (DBU) is a private university located in the far southwestern part of Dallas, Texas. DBU also operates branch campuses in Plano and Hurst. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the liberal convention formerly affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

It was originally called Decatur Baptist College, and was located in Decatur, Texas (northwest of Fort Worth) until 1965 when (at the invitation of the Dallas Baptist Association, the local SBC association for Dallas County) it relocated to Dallas at its current location (on a hilltop overlooking Mountain Creek Lake). It gained university status in 1985.

DBU is organized into seven colleges (the Mary C. Crowley College of Christian Faith, the Dorothy M. Bush College of Education, the College of Business, the College of Fine Arts, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and the College of Professional Studies) and two schools (the Graduate School of Ministry and the Gary Cook School of Leadership).

DBU participates in athletics at the Division II level, except for baseball in which they participate at the Division I level. The baseball program has produced several Major League players, among them Ben Zobrist. A tradition during every evening baseball game is when the nearby Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery plays "Taps", play is stopped and the crowd remains silent until playing is finished. Athletic teams were formerly known as the Indians with a blue and gold color scheme, but changed in the late 1980's to the Patriots and adopted the American national colors of red, white, and blue.