The University Honors Program provides a special learning context for high-achieving students looking for a rigorous and enhanced educational experience.
Most Honors students enter the Full College Honors Program as incoming freshmen. This Honors option is a four-year track through our program consisting of an Honors Core followed by Departmental Honors and results in a degree earned “With College Honors.” The rest of our students participate only in Departmental Honors (which students enter once they enter their department). Completion of Departmental Honors alone results in a degree earned “With Distinction.”
The University Honors Program assists and encourages students to find ways to enrich their education and to create an experience that facilitates their long-term goals. Honors seeks to enhance the already rich experience available at the University of Washington by bringing students and the best opportunities of a large research university into close contact.
Honors students benefit from unique opportunities such as:
- Personalized and Comprehensive Honors Advising
- Small, Intensive, Interdisciplinary Honors Classes
- Continuous Contact with Honors Faculty
- Assistance in Finding Appropriate Research and Internship Opportunities
- Mary Gates Research Grants
- Mary Gates Leadership Grants
- Honors Peer Advisers
- Honors Computer Lab
