Honors Program

Honors Program

The UNH Honors Program is designed for exceptionally motivated students who have shown high levels of academic achievement. The university requires every student, regardless of their major, to take a number of core courses in competency areas. The Honors Program offers students an intellectually exciting and challenging way to satisfy many of these core curriculum requirements. Honors courses, which are all team-taught, draw from several disciplines, and students learn to make connections between those disciplines.

Students may enter the Honors Program either as incoming freshmen or at the conclusion of their first year of study. Incoming first-year students with exceptional high school grade point averages and strong SAT scores, particularly on the reading and writing sections, will be invited to apply to begin the Honors Program upon entrance to the university. Students currently at the university and transfer students who have completed at least 24 credit hours with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.3 are invited to apply to enter the Honors Program as sophomores. 

Honors freshmen take a common Honors section of a core curriculum class each semester of their freshman year. All Honors students take a total of four Honors Seminars in their sophomore and junior years. In their senior year students research and write an Honors thesis on a topic related to their major under the guidance of a faculty member. Honors students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.3 throughout their studies at UNH.

Contact Information
Dr. Bradley Woodworth, Faculty Director of the Honors Program
Maxcy Hall 117
University of New Haven
300 Boston Post Rd
West Haven, CT 06516

Voice: 203.932.7121
Fax: 203.931.6044
Email: bwoodworth@newhaven.edu