The Renée Crown University Honors Program is an enhanced educational experience for exceptional students. It is a selective, demanding, and rewarding program for students who seek an intense intellectual challenge and are prepared to invest the extra effort required to meet that challenge. It is not for all serious or excellent students, but for those who are captivated and inspired by its special demands and opportunities. The Honors Program is marked by four distinguishing characteristics:

  • Heightened expectations
  • Participation in a vibrant and active community of learners
  • Intensity of intellectual experience
  • Special intellectual opportunities and responsibilities

Syracuse University has had an honors program since 1963. Recently re-named and re-envisioned, this imaginative new program reflects the University's emphasis on enriched intellectual depth and breadth, communicative empowerment, global awareness, and civic engagement.

While students pursue their chosen academic course of study in their individual departments, schools and colleges, the Honors Program offers additional intellectual challenge and curricular enrichment through seminars, honors courses, special cultural events, and close contact with faculty and other honors students. The Program is open to qualified students in all of the University's undergraduate schools and colleges.