Welcome to the Honors Program!
Honors students at Shippensburg University benefit from small classes, excellent teaching, and exciting research, study abroad, and internship opportunities. Students in the program also participate in special social, cultural, and community service activities. The Honors Program involves undergraduate students in every major and every class level who come from a variety of backgrounds and have diverse interests. What these students share is their desire to make the most of all the opportunities available to them at Shippensburg University.
The Honors Program is a center of academic excellence and innovation at Shippensburg University. The Honors Program recruits outstanding students to the university and provides them with an exceptional undergraduate experience that emphasizes scholarship, leadership, and service. The goals of the Honors Program are:
- To recruit academically talented and motivated students to the university
- To actively engage and challenge students throughout their undergraduate careers, preparing them for study in graduate and professional schools, careers, and a lifetime of intellectual growth
- To expand students' intellectual horizons beyond the classroom by promoting participation in undergraduate research, study abroad programs, and internships
- To help students develop leadership skills that will benefit the Honors Program, the university, and the community
- To provide opportunities for students to initiate and participate in service projects that will strengthen their civic engagement and enhance the university and community
- To promote faculty development by encouraging and supporting pedagogical innovation, especially in the areas of interdisciplinary and international programming
- To offer leadership for programming that supports and celebrates academic excellence at Shippensburg University.
Explore the many benefits and opportunities that await you in the Honors Program!