what are the top public honors colleges in the nation?

<p>How do you find out what the top honors colleges in the US are? Is there a website, or can anyone just post 5-10 that are good and public?</p>

<p>I dunno what you mean by honors college...
do you mean honors program?</p>

<p>Michigan, W&M and Michigan State all have very well-known honors colleges, just to start your list.</p>

<p>UT-Austin's Plan</a> II program is pretty well known.</p>

<p>Arizona State U's Barrett Honors College is great. I've also heard good things about U of Arizona's Honors College.</p>

<p>I second Tanman's recommendation of the Plan II Honors program at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the Plan II website provided in Tanman's comment, here's a link to a 1999 summary of Plan II posted at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth website: <a href="http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/utexas.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/utexas.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>CUNY Honors College is supposed to be top-notch</p>

<p>Uconn Honors College is the top honors program in New England :)</p>

<p>UT Austin Business; UT Austin Engineering (esp petroleum); UT Austin Plan II. All are ranked within top 5 schools in those fields in the nation!</p>

<p>PSU Schreyer- it owns all the ones mentioned above...also SUNY Stony Brook honors</p>

<p>Penn State's honors college is supposed to be great. It'd be useful if they ranked them.</p>

<p>Here's what I was looking for but couldn't find a minute ago. The lower bound (but not the higher bound) for middle 50% of SAT scores for PSU's Honors College is 3rd, only behind Harvard and Yale. Princeton, Stanford, Yale, etc. are all below. Kind of interesting, even though it doesn't mean much since the other schools mentioned have higher upper bounds.</p>

<p>Link: <a href="http://www.shc.psu.edu/prospectivestudents/process/2006FactsandFigures.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.shc.psu.edu/prospectivestudents/process/2006FactsandFigures.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>