<p>There are many excellent honors programs and colleges throughout the country. Here's a plug for one of them, Texas Tech's Honors College. A couple differentiating items about Tech's Honors College. First, it is one of only a few honors colleges in the country that have faculty whose appointment is specifically in the honors college and it is one of only a handful that offer majors specifically in the honors college for honors students. The dean of Tech's Honors College, Gary Bell, is a nationally known expert on honors colleges and has been retained by other universities to evaluate their honors programs. For instance, Dean Bell in the last few years has critiqued the honors programs at University of North Texas and Abilene Christian University.</p>