Honors Program

The Honors Program is an intellectual and creative community which provides a four-year, interdisciplinary, collaborative learning experience for incoming students of exceptional ability. Selection to the Honors Program is competitive and only first-year students applying for September Admission are eligible.  The Honors Program supplements major study with a challenging liberal arts curriculum comprised of interdisciplinary seminars, collaborative research projects, and faculty-directed independent study.

Applying to the Honors Program

Admission to the Honors Program is competitive and only first-year students applying for September Admission are eligible. Each fall, approximately 50 outstanding first-year applicants enroll in the Honors Program.  First-year students should first submit their application for admission, then complete the Honors Application.

All first-year students, regardless of major, are invited to apply to the Honors Program. Your Honors Program application decision has no bearing, however, on your admission decision to the College. Students can be accepted to the College without being invited to the Honors Program.

To apply, print out and submit the Honors Application. As described on the application cover page, you must also complete a 400-600 word essay and submit a graded writing sample. Please submit your completed Honors Program Application by mail to:

Emerson Undergraduate Admission
Attention: Honors Program Selection Committee
120 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

Deadlines

Early Action: November 15, selected outstanding applicants notified in January
Regular Action: February 1, notification by April 1

Benefits

Our Honors Program allows you to take advantage of individual advising, special lectures, interdisciplinary fulfillment of Emerson’s general education requirements, priority course registration determined by credit standing, collaborative research projects, and special extracurricular activities. You will also receive mentoring and interact with upper-class colleagues. Through social events and community service projects you become an integral part of the Honors Program’s “community of learners.” Students enrolled in the program also receive a half-tuition Trustees scholarship that is renewable each academic year.

More Information

You can find more information about requirements and eligibility, Honors courses, and view sample Honors theses and projects at the Honors Program website.