About Us

The Honors Program is a four-year program that provides an especially rich and challenging set of academic offerings to talented and highly motivated students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Through special courses, research relations with faculty, and a vigorous intellectual community that includes Honors faculty fellows, the Honors Program enables students to identify their intellectual interests and to pursue them as deeply and as far as they can.

The Program's curriculum offers a wide range of challenging courses in almost every department and Honors concentrations in every field in the College. We offer special seminars, courses, and direct involvement with faculty right from the start of students' lives at Michigan. Students are expected to elect half their course work in Honors; many do more. Many Honors students participate in research during their first two years, and almost all Honors seniors pursue their own independent research projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor, leading to an Honors senior thesis.

To help students take the greatest advantage of the rich opportunities at Michigan, Honors advisors meet with them individually, beginning at Orientation and continuing throughout their time here.

The Honors Program is also a vibrant community. No one interest unites all Honors students, of course, but a wide range of activities enables students to choose what interests them. With the opening of the Perlman Honors Commons, the Program now has an intellectual hub where students and faculty come together for study, conversation, and a variety of intellectual and cultural events in truly beautiful surroundings. A biweekly interview/discussion, Fresh Ideas, alternates there on Thursday afternoons with student-organized events. There are also weekly informal gatherings over lunch in the dining hall. And monthly "Lunch with Honors" gives our students direct contact with many of the remarkable people who visit the University. Finally, Faculty Fellows engage Honors students in a wide variety of ways outside of formal classes.

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