Honors Program

The Honors Program offers an enhanced and supportive learning environment for students who aspire to impactful, lasting academic work and service. Honors students receive individualized attention, engage in creative and meaningful research, and enjoy enhanced access to experiential learning, service, and leadership opportunities.

Joining the Honors Program offers many benefits:

• Dedicated advising and student success support
• Priority enrollment
• Scholarship Opportunities
• Designated Honors study space
• Deeper sense of community with Honors peers
• Enhanced faculty mentoring
• Honors Program graduation cord and transcript note
• Service Learning
• Community Engagement
• Leadership Development

In the Honors Program, you’ll meet and collaborate with students from different places with diverse interests. You’ll have the opportunity to join the Honors Student Association and help shape the future of the Honors Program. The Honors Program strives to provide a supportive, inclusive academic and social community.

You also will have the opportunity to design and complete a major research project in your major field of study. Completing an Honors research project shows prospective employers and graduate admissions committees that you have taken on a complex project and seen it through to completion. This proof of your capabilities helps immensely when competing for a job or for admission to a graduate/professional program.

We strive to provide you with opportunities you might not otherwise have at the university. In the Honors Program, you can work with some of our best faculty, along with peers who share your interests and aspirations, within a supportive academic environment.

I’m delighted that you’ve taken the time to learn more about the Honors Program, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Bill Bush
Director, University Honors Program