About the Honors College
The Honors Concept
The UTSA Honors College provides a unique educational experience for academically talented students with a commitment to excellence. The Honors College is open to students from all academic disciplines.
Honors classes include special sections of regular courses with smaller enrollments and interdisciplinary seminars that bring together advanced students from diverse disciplines. Most honors courses meet core curriculum or major requirements. Honors courses do not require more work, but rather work that is enriched to encourage intellectual exchange and individual thought. Most honors students can graduate from the Honors College without any additional time requirements.
Throughout a student's program of study, the Honors College emphasizes breadth of academic exeperience. In the junior and senior year, honors students also become more focused on a particular academic discipline. Upper-division honors work typically culminates in a senior honors thesis or senior honors project under the direction of a faculty memeber from the department of the student's major.
Students may apply to the Honors College at any time by submitting the application located on the forms page. Incoming freshmen who submit a completed application by February 15 will also be entered into the annual scholarship pool
