Honors Program
The ECU Honors Program offers motivated students enhanced educational opportunities, smaller class sizes, and tuition fee waivers.
Program Benefits
- Honors Classes: Small, discussion-based courses beginning your first semester.
- Tuition Fee Waivers: Honors students may receive tuition fee waivers of $1,750 per semester, renewable for up to eight semesters total. A limited number of new awards are available each semester.
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Early Enrollment: Be the first on campus to enroll beginning your second semester in the program.
- Housing Options: Honors students may choose to live alongside first-year and upper-division Honors students in Briles Hall, located at the top of the hill and connected to the cafeteria. Honors housing is optional.
- Active Student Life: Join the Honors Student Association, one of ECU’s most engaged student groups.
- House System: Be sorted into one of four Honors Houses and compete for the annual House Cup.
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Travel Opportunities: Recent trips have included Madrid, Spain; Mexico City; New York; and San Francisco, plus the annual Global Faiths Tour in Oklahoma.
- Research Opportunities: Work one-on-one with professors on a thesis or individualized project in your major.
Graduate Success
Recent Honors graduates have continued on to prestigious graduate and professional
programs at institutions such as Stanford, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and
the University of Alabama, among many others.
Admissions Criteria
Meeting the criteria below establishes eligibility for consideration but does not guarantee admission.
Students Entering ECU from High School (includes Concurrent Students):
- Minimum 3.5 GPA
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ACT score of 24 or higher, or at least 12 college credit hours with a college GPA of 3.5 or higher.
- Interview required
Continuing and Transfer Students:
- Minimum 3.3 GPA
- Two faculty recommendations