<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I have been accepted into an honors program from a state university (UG), and am going for Mechanical Engg.</p>
<p>There are now more requirements, so I was just thinking if it will be worth it. Does an Honors Degree have a lot of value later on, for a job or grad school?</p>
<p>There are some non-engg requirements like texts. A thesis is also required.</p>
<p>Is all this worth the effort?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I’d say so, especially for grad school. For industry… I don’t know how much that would help. There are a lot of people here involved in hiring that could better answer that question.</p>
<p>However, I’d encourage you to do it regardless. You can always drop out of it if it becomes too much of a burden, and it’s something you can do that others can’t say they did. You only get one shot at undergrad (usually…) and you might as well make the most of it. The requirements usually won’t be so bad and you can usually have your thesis be a 30-page writeup of your senior project anyway…</p>
<p>I considered it as a freshman and then decided against it.</p>
<p>Engineering is just about an honors program by itself. It’s a handful to pass all of your engineering classes without having to do advanced level work. I decided that I had enough on my plate to do the regular engineering classes and making it harder didn’t make a lot of sense to me.</p>
<p>Like some other majors, engineering is a hard one and just about “honors” in its own right.</p>
<p>I know someone who graduated from Clemson in computer engineering and he said honors helped him because he got better professors and smaller classes, but it does have more requirements.</p>
<p>Do it, Im in Ohio State Honors Engineering and while it is a lot of work you get curved really well in math, physics, and general engineering classes.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter whether you are in honors or not.
In our school honors students usually get an extra hour of homework and another class project and sometimes extra questions on the exams.
I personally hate homework so I decided there were better uses of my time.
Nobody really cares if you are in honors as long as you are getting A’s in the important classes. Whether grad school or employers. The only real benefit is the thesis (usually they have other options for non-honors students to do it too though even though it may not be required)</p>
<p>Why not go for it? If you want to challenge yourself, it will certainly not hurt you in the future. If anything it will help. I was in an honors program for my undergrad and I found it to be very worth while. It distinguishes you from your peers and is a great way to take gen ed courses with other honors students and many times these courses would get the better professors.</p>
<p>More important than getting better professors for gen. ed. courses is being in these courses with better students. I always found the classes smaller and the pace quicker, since your average honors student is better than your average college student…</p>
<p>In fact, I’d say meeting a group of smart, motivated, and ambitious individuals has been one of the key benefits of the honors program. Not to say there aren’t others not in the program, but you have to look harder for them.</p>
<p>I’d say the benefits are modest, but what you really have to put in is even more modest. I’d call it a net plus.</p>
<p>If you are considering graduate school then it is worth it since you will have to do a thesis. Otherwise it will depend on what exactly you get for being in the honors program (smaller classes, etc.)</p>
<p>It’s interesting, at my school the honors program is for the typical ‘core’ engineering coursework and is meant to be better, not harder…if anything easier</p>
<p>what it does is let you take those core classes like calc, solid mechanics, physics , etc…in a restricted section with a smaller class size and a better professor. </p>
<p>It’s meant to be a reward for keeping a decent GPA, and it’s meant to help you not hurt you. It’s pretty sad a lot of people at my school don’t even know this : )</p>
<p>There are some stupid additional requirements that are, what’s the word…formalities? But small class size makes a huge difference if you going to a large engineering school w/5k+ undergrads,</p>
<p>I’d recommend to sign up and take those restricted sections and then blow off the formalities afterwards, what are they going to do : )</p>