honors college
Achievers' academic track
An honors college is a selective academic program within a larger university, offering enhanced coursework, smaller classes, and additional opportunities to high-achieving students.
It functions somewhat like a small liberal arts college embedded in a bigger institution: She applied to the honors college for the research opportunities.
Students typically must maintain a higher GPA and complete a thesis or capstone project.
- summa cum laudeTop graduation honor
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- academic excellenceSuperior performance in studies
- deanSenior academic administrator
- universityHigher education institution
scholarship · capstone project · academic rigor · seminar · small class size · faculty · independent study · fellowship · graduate school · valedictorian · civic responsibility · mentorship · senior thesis · distinction · honor roll · collaborative research · GPA · rigorous
- educational institutionsuniversity, school, academy, high school, elementary school
- University Departmentsbiology department, chemistry department, physics department, mathematics department, psychology department
- honors academics
- honors programsGPA requirement, selective admission, capstone, thesis defense, dean's list
- RutgersScarlet, New Brunswick, Big Ten, campus, athletics
- schoolsprimary school, school, academy, high school, elementary school