Honor Colleges

College Search & Selection
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<p>What schools, generally thought to not be in the top 25 or so, have a strong Honor College?</p>

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<p>From what I have heard, Penn State has a great honors college. Somebody once mentioned that UMaryland has a good one too.</p>

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<p>University of Michigan.</p>

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<p>Yeah, UofMichigan has a good honors college. Basically, the only advantage is that you get to skip the required freshman writing class (lame) and, you get to live in South Quad (the best dorm) You definitely won't get stuck on North Campus.</p>

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<p>Penn State Schreyer Honors College</p>

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<p>University of Pittsburgh Honors College</p>

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<p>university of georgia?</p>

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<p>I second the recommendation for Pitt. </p>

<p>Michigan is good as well, but if you're looking for something not top-20, that's probably not the answer you want.</p>

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<p>Arizona State University is certainly not known for its academics (although it has seen great improvement in that area since Michael Crow came in as president a few years ago), but Barrett Honors College at ASU is extremely selective and has a very strong reputation attracting top scholars.</p>

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<p>university of Oregon honors collge.</p>

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<p>Commonwealth College(affiliated with UMASS-Amherst) is supposed to be a realy good program. It has a great student to faculty ratio, lots of merit aid, and great class selection. You also get acces to all the colleges in the five college consortium(Amherst, Smith, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke).</p>

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<p>Penn State!</p>

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<p>...Hehe, I feel like this thread is just going to have a list of every single college/university since I think most honor programs at any institution are generally good (depending on what you're looking for, of course).</p>

<p>However, to add in my two-cents: The CUNY Honors program is rather strong and it offers its Honor students a lot of incentives such as a laptop, stipend, and dorm in Midtown.</p>

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<p>I think the question should be modified to say "Exceptional colleges"</p>

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<p>In addition to those already mentioned, some neat "honors college" programs that I like: Ohio University's Tutorial College, UC Santa Barbara's College of Creative Studies, and the New College of Florida.</p>

<p>The National Collegiate Honors Council is a good place to get information about honors college programs. They have a list of schools with honors colleges under the "members" link. While there, be sure to read the description of what a decent honors college should offer and provide:
<a href="http://www.nchchonors.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.nchchonors.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>UT Austin has several top notch honor colleges</p>

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<p>"The National Collegiate Honors Council is a good place to get information about honors college programs. They have a list of schools with honors colleges under the "members" link. While there, be sure to read the description of what a decent honors college should offer and provide:
<a href="http://www.nchchonors.org"&gt;www.nchchonors.org&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p>

<p>The founding dean of ASU's Barrett Honors College was at one point president of the NCHC and helped create the standards for all future members of the council. So, I think Barrett is a prime example of a great honors college, created and formed to be one.</p>