Honors programs at big universities

Torveaux
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:43:49 +0000

As mentioned above, there are huge differences between honors programs in the colleges. There are also distinct differences between and honors program and an honors college (at some institutions).

What I found interesting is that the website linked by @sax focused primarily on the honors programs at schools that are already high academic schools. UT is a top 5 engineering school. The honors program may be good, but the base university education is good as well. I’d rather see how the ‘other’ honors programs compare versus some of the ‘elite’ LACs in terms of post-graduate success.

As someone who was frequently the victim of scheduling issues, I am very happy that S1 is going to a program where he gets priority registration. The dorm thing for him is good because he prefers to interact with kids who can carry on an intellectual discussion.