The Honors College and Engineering

The University of Arizona offers a unique Honors College. The program recognizes the abilities and achievements of high school graduates and offers a variety of special challenges and resources to encourage the full development of academic and interpersonal skills.

When you apply to the University, you automatically apply to the Honors Program. UA must be in possession of your ACT or SAT scores for you to be considered for admission to the Honors College. Notification of acceptance into the UA Honors Program will come in your University of Arizona acceptance letter from the Office of Admissions.

If you are already a UA student, you must have a grade point average of 3.5 or better.

Transfer students coming from a community college or from a four-year institution must meet specific requirements.Typically, students entering Honors with 60 or more units will need to complete 18 units of Honors credit at UA, students entering with 30-60 units will need 24 units of Honors credit at UA, and students entering with fewer than 30 units will need 30 units of Honors credit at UA. Please contact an Honors academic advisor to confirm how many Honors units you will need. To schedule an appointment with an Honors advisor, please call the front desk at 520-621-6901.

Honors is Enhanced Learning

The highly motivated students in our engineering classes will design tomorrow's technologies and play key roles in solving the environmental and social problems facing our planet. The honors program is directed at nurturing these outstanding students by providing challenging courses that offer opportunities for creative thought and deeper understanding of engineering principles.

What's In It for You?

As an honors student, you will enjoy privileges not always granted to other undergraduates,

• Specially designed classes 
• Individual attention from professors
• Smaller and more intellectuallly challenging classes
• Priority registeration
• Honors residence halls; Yuma, Yavapai, and Pasada San Pedro
• Extended library privileges -- the same as graduate students
• Honors research grants and scholarships
• Access to personalized advising
• Wide range of enriching cultural activities
• Advising for nationally competitive scholarships

Your degree will note that you graduated with honors, a distinction that will remain with you throughout your career.

The Honors College Offers More

As an engineering honors student, you not only belong to the family of top students within your major, but you are also part of the larger universitywide honors program.

You are encouraged to participate in the many academically enriching activities offered by the Honors College each semester, including the Honors Forum Luncheon Series. The Honors College also serves as a clearing house for some undergraduate research opportunities.

Meet the Research Challenge

Undergraduate research is your best opportunity to get hands-on experience in engineering before you graduate. It is often fun, sometimes frustrating, usually quite stimulating, and may lead to work that is published in scholarly journals.

Research makes class work more interesting and relevant, and may allow you to earn money or receive credit while working in your major area of study. After you graduate, your research experience will broaden your opportunities in industry, and enlarge the pool of graduate schools from which you can choose.

Your Start in Honors

ENGR 196A-B:

In this two-semester freshman course, you learn about the kinds of skills engineers need, what the engineering work place is all about, and the work that various engineers do. It provides a firm basis for deciding what kind of engineer you want to be.

Guest speakers from the campus and industry give you insights into the exciting and challenging projects that engineers tackle. Tours of campus engineering facilities -- from the nuclear reactor to wind tunnels to the microelectronics clean room -- provide an overview of the engineering facilities available on campus. The course also stimulates your creativity with written assignments, and it carries two units of honors credit (1 per semester).

ENGR 102H:

The Introduction to Engineering class is offered for honors credit. You can earn 3 honors credit by taking this course which is part of the freshman engineering curriculum.