Honors Programs

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS HONORS PROGRAMS

At The University of Scranton, you can take your academic experience to the highest level. With a choice of five honors programs, you’ll challenge yourself intellectually as you engage more deeply in and out of the classroom. As part of our Faculty-Student Research Program, you’ll conduct meaningful research, working closely with accomplished professors. At Scranton, you’ll explore your potential. You’ll find your excellence.

DID YOU KNOW

Scranton recognizes the achievements of our students through more than 30 national honor societies, representing a wide range of academic disciplines.

Honors Program The Honors Program challenges outstanding students through independent work and intense engagement with professors and other honors students in and out of the classroom.

Business Honors Program The Business Honors Program offers four years of honors-level academic curriculum and a series of service and career building activities to develop skills needed for success in business.

Business Leadership Honors Program The Business Leadership Honors Program helps distinguished students develop the talents and skills to become the leaders of tomorrow as they engage in special seminars, courses and professional mentoring.

Magis Honors Program in STEM The Magis Honors Program in STEM provides our undergraduate students with a more intense, interdisciplinary experience of research in STEM fields. Participants are enrolled in a special first year seminar and a series of 1.5-credit seminar courses culminating in a senior thesis project.

Special Jesuit Liberal Arts Honors Program (SJLA) The SJLA Honors Program provides an alternate way of fulfilling general education credits through specially designed courses taught in a community atmosphere that encourages excellence and service to others.

Faculty-Student Research Program (FSRP) The FSRP enables students to develop their skills through high-level, collaborative research with faculty, with outcomes making their way into prestigious journals or presentations at national conferences.

BRIGHT STUDENTS

The Chronicle of Higher Education has listed The University of Scranton among the “top producers” of Fulbright awards. Since 1972, 158 of our graduates have earned a Fulbright or other international fellowship.

2016-2019 FULBRIGHT RECIPIENTS

Thomas Gerald McGinley Lauren Coggins

Sarah Fitch Albena Ivova Gesheva

Olivia Gillespie

Ivan Simpson-Kent Aimee Miller

Veronica Sinotte