The Honors Program is designed to bring together talented, motivated students and dedicated faculty in a small college environment of challenging seminars, research and service opportunities, and cultural events in order to promote breadth, diversity, and depth throughout the student's academic career. The Program fosters close individual contact between students and faculty, and attempts to bring together talented students of varied interests. Honors courses, cultural activities, collaborative research with faculty, international study, and civic engagement enhance the academic experience inherent in a Villanova education.

The Honors Model
The Program attempts to create for all participants a mutually-supportive community of scholars, in which ideas and imagination are taken seriously. The Program provides an optimal academic community within which sound academic experimentation and high standards of achievement can become models for the College and University as a whole.

A division of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors Program offers seminars in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. In partnership with the School of Business and the College of Engineering, the Program also offers seminars in business and engineering.

Honors courses are offered in those disciplines most conducive to discussion-driven seminars, and that lend themselves to the constructive exchange of ideas. All courses are designed to cultivate effective written and oral communication and strong analytical skills. Honors seminars are open to qualified students in all undergraduate colleges of the University.

All students in the Program have immediate access to Honors faculty and advisors, who seek to ensure that each student will receive the best possible education compatible with his or her objectives and interests. The Program provides its majors with a comprehensive four-year curriculum culminating in independent research that enriches and complements both the requirements of the College and the student's area of specialization, whether that area of specialization is a second major in an academic discipline or an interdisciplinary direction of study designed by the individual student.