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Honors Program

Explore. Collaborate. Influence.

The Stevenson Honors Program invites the University’s most academically talented students into an exciting, four-year honors experience. Honors students—across disciplines—develop a strong network of mutually outstanding and motivated peers, experiencing Stevenson together while building lifelong bonds through this living-learning community.

The engaging honors experience includes a thematic, project-based curriculum; workshops and master classes taught by thought leaders in academia and industry; purposeful collaborations among student scholar peers and honors faculty; and specially-designed faculty-led honors program trips. In concert with the University’s well-respected career preparation program, the Honors Program offers professional preparation and career connections tailored to the specific goals and aspirations of honors students.

Benefits
- Priority registration
- Social events
  - Pre-orientation event in August for 1^st year students
  - Sophomore trip
  - Senior networking dinner
- Specialized advising and mentoring from Faculty Director
- Dedicated honors librarian
- Guest speakers and panel discussions (e.g., visiting writers, artists, academic leaders, entrepreneurs)
- Honors designation on transcript, honors seal on diploma, cording ceremony prior to graduation (upon successfully completing the four year curriculum)
Scholarships

Honors students receive the highest level of merit scholarship—the President’s Scholarship—and are also invited to apply for the Founders’ Scholarship, which recognizes a student’s potential to be an active, engaged member of the Stevenson Community. All scholarships are renewable for four years. For more information, please see the Scholarship & Grants page.
Honors Curriculum
Freshman Composition (fall of 1^st year)
- Fulfilled by taking ENG 153 (4 credits honors course) OR AP credits + 1 additional composition course (3-4 credits)
HON 100 (1 credit, spring of 1^st year)
- Introduces students to project based learning and the yearly theme
Honors sections of general education courses (minimum of 12 credits, 1^st and 2^nd years)
- Honors General Biology Lab
- Honors General Chemistry I (lecture and lab)
- Honors General Chemistry II (lecture and lab)
- Honors Intro to Art History
- Honors US History Colonial America – 1877
- Honors Introduction to Psychology
- Honors Public Speaking
- Honors Introduction to Sociology
Upper level honors courses (6-8 credits, 3^rd year)
- Fulfilled by honors contracts
  - Honors contracts allows students to take a course in their major and turn it into an honors course by taking a project-based approach to the course. Students work closely with their instructor in designing the project based approach.
HON 400 (3 credits, spring of 3^rd year or fall/spring of 4^th year)
- Project based, collaborative course tied into the yearly theme culminating in a presentation.
GPA requirements
- 1^st year: >3.2
- 2^nd year: > 3.3
- 3^rd year: >3.4
- Overall GPA: > 3.5
Freshman Honors

Freshman Honors is the first year of Stevenson University's Honors Program. Freshman honors students will be housed in a living and learning community that allows students to form a cohort and participate in honors specific programming in and out of the classroom.

Freshman Honors is characterized by a pre-orientation experience right before the semester begins, a common read, 4 honors courses, and culminates with an end of the year celebration.

Honor Student

"The [honors] classes have provided more opportunity for discussion; I would recommend the program to incoming freshmen who wish to explore the full extent of their intellect."

Alicia O'Neil

Freshman

Read Alicia 's Story

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