Honors Program

The Honors Program at Saint Michael’s College provides additional challenges and opportunities to outstanding students, with the aim of enhancing the liberal education offered by the College through engagement in small group discussion, research, and extraordinary curricular and extracurricular opportunities.

The mission of the College, “to contribute through higher education to the enhancement of the human person and to the advancement of human culture in the light of the Catholic faith,” serves as the Honors Program's guiding principle.

As a group, Honors students distinguish themselves by their commitment to this mission and its concomitant approach to education; as individuals, they demand more of themselves, of each other and their instructors, and of their respective disciplines.

The components of the Honors Program, all serving these ends, are the Honors Core Courses, the Honors Colloquium and the Senior Honors Project in the Major.

Eligibility
 
Some students are invited to join the Honors Program at the beginning of their freshmen year on the basis of a promising high school record. Students who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or above in their first semester become eligible and enter at the beginning of their sophomore year.

To remain in the Honors Program, students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Those who complete the requirements receive special recognition at graduation.
 

For more information, contact:

Nick Clary
Honors Program Coordinator
Saint Edmund's Hall 343
Phone: 802.654.2390
Box 353
E-mail: nclary@smcvt.edu