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The Honors Program offers a four-year comprehensive major leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, Honors (B.A.H.), Bachelor of Science, Honors (B.S.H.), or Bachelor of Science, Business Honors (B.S.B.H.). Each degree represents the successful completion of a rigorous curriculum of study, culminating in a five- or six-credit Senior Thesis.

Pursuant to enhancing intellectual challenge and formal credentials among University Honors students enrolled in the School of Business, a collaborative agreement has been established:

  1. An Honors Business curriculum appropriate for business students who desire to pursue an academic major in Honors has been integrated within the existing University Honors Program curriculum.
  2. The School of Business grants the degree, Bachelor of Science, Business Honors to students who:

    a) are certified by the School of Business to have completed satisfactorily the number and distribution of Honors Business seminars, including the Honors Senior Project mandated by the academic major, Bachelor of Science, Business Honors, and;

    b) are certified by the University Honors Program to have completed satisfactorily all other requirements for the awarding of an Honors degree in any academic discipline within the University.

  3. Students not receiving both certifications are ineligible for the Honors, Business degree.

Students who do not seek the Honors degree may earn the Honors Program Sequence in Liberal Studies (concentration), or may elect not to pursue any of the formal certifications of the Program. Whatever their academic plans, students may be members of the Honors Program, enroll in courses and participate fully in all Program activities as long as they maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.33 and enroll in an average of one Honors course every other semester.

Degree Requirements

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Sciences B.S., Business Honors
  • Complete a total of 12 Honors courses, including a required Sophomore Honors Seminar and the Senior Thesis. 
     
  • At least three of the remaining 10 Honors courses must be upper-level electives that are not used to fulfill Core Requirements.

Students who pursue the B.A.H. often combine their Honors major with a second major in a specific academic discipline.
  • Complete a total of 10 Honors courses, including a required Natural Science Honors Seminar and the Senior Thesis. 
  • At least three of the remaining eight must be upper-level courses.

Because all of the academic majors in the science disciplines are four-year programs, students who pursue the B.S.H. always combine their Honors major with a second major in one of the natural or mathematical sciences.
  • Complete a total of 12 Honors courses, including at least four Honors business seminars from a business curriculum stipulated by the School of Business, and a two semester Senior Honors Project.
  • At least three of the remaining six Honors seminars must be upper-level electives within the humanities or social sciences.

Satisfactory completion for B.S., Business Honors must be certified by both the Director, University Honors Program; and the Dean, School of Business.