Honors Programs: which are the best?
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Anonymous
| Making college lists. Curious which colleges have top notch honors programs and why? And separately, are there any honors programs that are heads and shoulders above the rest of the school? A school that may not have the strongest academics, but the honors program is so strong that it outweighs that lack of strength? Or does a school have to have decent academics overall to make the honors program excellent? |
Anonymous
| Penn State and the Universities of Oregon, South Carolina, and Kansas are examples of "just fine" flagships that have truly stellar honors colleges/programs. |
Anonymous
| Univ. of South Carolina and Arizona. |
Anonymous
| Penn State and ASU. |
Anonymous
| Adding Michigan State. |
Anonymous
| Our vote is for both Penn State and NC State. Both very good programs as far as we could tell after acceptance into them. I think my son is going to end up choosing Penn State. |
Anonymous
Can you say more about their Honor program? |
Anonymous
How so? Please elaborate people |
Anonymous
| Michigan, Wisconsin, UNC, and Texas all have high-quality honors programs, but they're also all obviously strong schools generally and tough admits--so less of a delta associated with honors than a place like Arizona State or Kansas. |
Anonymous
Because your Google is broken? |
Anonymous
Would honors at Michigan or UNC be ivy-caliber? |
Anonymous
OP asked for “and why” - so move along if you have nothing to offer, thank you dear |
Anonymous
You mean the kids? Yes. Or the courses? Also yes. But honors courses will be a minority of the courses you take; most of your courses (and classmates in those courses) will be Michigan/UNC-caliber. |
Anonymous
| Rutgers |
Anonymous
Identifying the programs offers much more value than transcribing those programs' web pages for a perfectly capable adult. |