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University Honors Program

What You Get

University Honors Program graduates proudly display their UHP medals in front of Talley Student Union.

Successful completion of the University Honors Program is indicated on a student’s official University transcript and represented in the University’s printed commencement program on graduation day.

Completers receive a printed certificate and a medal to wear with their graduation regalia, gifted to them during the UHP’s traditional senior recognition ceremony.

Participation in the University Honors Program provides students with a platform to achieve great things both on and off-campus. Some of the benefits include:

  • Access to cultural events on and off campus through the Honors Forum course.
  • Access to innovative coursework specially designed for Honors students that includes HON seminars and Honors sections of certain courses.
  • Opportunities for travel and experiential learning through our Cultural, Outdoor, and Career Explorations trips as well as summer study abroad opportunities in Florence, Italy or Oxford, England.
  • A sense of belonging in our vibrant living and learning community, the Honors Village, in Berry, Becton, and Bagwell Halls on East Campus.
UHSP Students in Vancouver Canada by a seaplane Spring Break 2019.
Students on a UHP Spring Break trip in Vancouver, Canada. Photo by Chester Brewer.

These opportunities to travel, hear the latest cutting edge news from the newsmakers themselves, to gain exposure to the ideas percolating throughout our society,—these opportunities provide our students with the very real and necessary benefit of becoming further connected to the world around them and becoming well-rounded and involved citizens as well as knowledge creators.