Honors programs/honors colleges vary widely. Barrett has been the gold standard for honors colleges. It’s a comprehensive residential honors college. UofA actually recently upgraded theirs and they have just been recognized for “most improved” honors college and it does look pretty good now. Check out the honors program/college at each college on their website to compare for yourself and see what each has to offer. Texas A&M for example has an honors program (not a comprehensive honors college) but the only real perk is priority registration. The dorms they are required to live in are not the nicest on campus and not exclusively honors dorms just honors floors and wings and they don’t have singles and they have to share a bedroom with an assigned roommate and they have a lot of requirements and extra work for very little benefit and perks… anyway she isn’t going to do the honors program at A&M for several reasons but mainly because she doesn’t want to live in the assigned dorm there. There are several other dorms that she strongly prefers where she can have a private bedroom. Whereas she was going to be in Barrett Honors College at ASU and the dorm is actually really nice with private bedrooms and is part of a nice honors complex with all sorts of amenities, perks, and benefits.
Here’s an interesting article about honors colleges and honors programs.