Honors Program

About the Honors Program

The Honors Scholar Program at Nichols offers highly motivated and academically promising full-time students in our baccalaureate degree programs the opportunity to develop their intellectual potential to the fullest and to receive special recognition for outstanding academic achievement. Honors Scholar candidates have the opportunity and challenge of working closely with leading members of the faculty as they pursue a specially designed, rigorous, and rewarding educational experience.

Requirements

Academic Eligibility

• Maintain a 3.3 GPA in their first year (overall and in the Honors program) and a 3.4 GPA for every subsequent year.
• 6 Honors Courses to be completed during the first 3 years of study (at least two at the 300/400 level)
• Honors Capstone to be completed during the final year of undergraduate study

Program Requirements

• Attend the 1st year experience event.
• Attend a minimum of 1 Professional Development event per semester in 1st year and sophomore year, and a minimum of 1 per year in junior and senior years.
• Attend one Honors cultural event per year.
• Serve as a mentor to a first-year student in your junior or senior year

Benefits

• Move in early in the Fall of their first year
• Participate in the Honors Learning Community wing of Shamie in the first year
• Participate in the Honors annual trip as juniors or seniors if they have maintained a minimum of 3.4 GPA in Honors courses and overall, and have completed a minimum of 4 courses by the end of the fall semester of their junior year

How to Enroll

Incoming or prospective students should contact the admissions office at admissions@nichols.edu or +1-508-213-2203

Current students should email Kellie.Deys@Nichols.edu for more enrollment information.