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The University Honors Program at Northeastern offers exceptionally motivated students an opportunity to enhance their educational experience through demanding and challenging academic opportunities.
The Honors Program promotes global awareness and civic engagement across all its offerings and empowers students through resources within the Honors Program as well as the larger Northeastern community. As a member of the Honors Program, students benefit from access to distinguished faculty members, including Faculty-in-Residence, as well as engaged and enthusiastic peers.
Honors students engage in creative and scholarly learning both within and outside of the classroom. The Program opens doors to exciting cultural events, important contributions to greater Boston, and the chance to take a leadership role starting within Honors and the University.
Honors students are invited to choose from four living learning communities (LLC’s) which reflect the University's distinctive areas of academic emphasis and build upon a century of innovation in experiential learning. These LLC’s offer students the opportunity to craft their education around a thematic area of special interest that can complement any major.
Scholars who are invited into the University Honors Program are among our most highly accomplished and motivated. Those that complete the Program requirements receive University Honors Distinction at graduation. Students may also receive Honors College Distinction after completing advanced work in honors at the college level.
Eligibility
Applicants who have outstanding academic and extracurricular credentials may be invited to join the honors program. Honors students must maintain a 3.40 grade-point average to remain in the program. All students who apply by the January 15 regular deadline are considered for admission into the Honors Program. There is no separate application.
