Hello,
I am new here and trying to make sense of all of the information. Does anyone have experience with WUE? I’m trying to find a list of WUE schools that have honors Programs. Any ideas how to find this? Thanks.
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WUE is dependent on major. Go to the WUE Savings Finder. Leave state set at All. Choose Bachelors and Freshman. Pick the major. Then you’ll get a list of schools where your student will be considered for WUE tuition. From there you need to look up each institution to see if they offer honors.
https://www.wiche.edu/tuition-savings/wue/wue-savings-finder/
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Utah is supposed to have a great honors program.
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UNLV has an honors program. We were very impressed when we toured and met with the director 5 years ago
Oregon State University and Washington State University both have Honors Colleges.
The WUE is not automatic at Oregon State; it is awarded to top applicants only.
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ:
WUE students are also eligible for merit scholarships:
You have to look at the particulars for your student, and not generically at each program. The classes they offer, how they align with your student’s major, and what credit they’ll bring in all matter.
Your student also has to decide if the benefits like enrollment advantage, housing, special classes, offset what is required of them.
Using my son as an example, he had quite a bit of AP credit and was a mechanical engineering major.
Utah has really nice dorms, but none of their coursework aligned with the engineering curriculum. He would have needed to add ten extra hours to his degree, something he wasn’t interested in.
Oregon State on the other hand has honors classes that go deep into the engineering curriculum. Had he gone there, he certainly would have done honors.
He ended up at Cal Poly, but didn’t get into the honors program upon admission. They have very few slots. He was offered admission after his first year based on his grades. It also added to his curriculum and didn’t offer engineering classes. The classes at Cal Poly are small for everyone and he had enrollment advantage based on his advanced status. He ended up declining, but graduated Magna Cum Laude.
So, you need to look specifically at your student’s situation.
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Colorado State has a great Honors Program and lots of WUE kids.
Yes Utah’s honors program is a broad liberal arts set of courses without strong linkages to STEM degrees. It is better aligned with non-STEM majors, but is definitely going to require taking extra courses (which unlike GEs you can’t waive with AP credit). Since you pay by the credit hour at Utah this can be a deterrent to some students. On the other hand most honors courses give out a large number of As (can be 70%+ of students).
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@Dazzy, feel free to ask any specific questions. Interaction is what gives this forum the most utility.
Univ of New Mexico (in Albuquerque) and NMSU (in Las Cruces) are both WUE schools and have honors programs. Both also have “WUE+,” which one would qualify for based on a min GPA & test score. There’s details on their websites.
https://go.unm.edu/scholarships/wue.html
https://honors.unm.edu/
https://fa.nmsu.edu/scholarships/index.html
https://honors.nmsu.edu/
Thank you. I’m so new here, I didn’t even realize I had responses until now. 
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