Wood Honors College

The Wood Honors College is dedicated to providing talented and motivated students with a transformative undergraduate experience and a supportive academic community. Through innovative Honors classes and enriching experiential learning programs, the Wood Honors College prepares students to become leaders in their professions and communities.

Advantages of membership in the Wood Honors College include dynamic Honors classes with the university’s top professors, specialized Honors advising, Honors scholarships that support students’ participation in undergraduate research, service-learning, and study away programs in the United States and around the world, leadership and service opportunities in the Honors Student Organization, valuable connections to our Honors alumni network, and Honors recognition on your transcript and at graduation. The Wood Honors College is an active member of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC), the national professional organization for Honors Programs and Colleges, and Wood Honors College students regularly attend and make presentations at the annual NCHC conferences.

To earn the Wood Honors College designation, students complete Honors general education courses, Honors upper-division seminars and experiences, and an Honors capstone project. The curricular requirements for students who enter the Wood Honors College after the first semester of their freshman year are prorated based on consultation with the Honors director. Students must earn a 3.25 QPA overall and in their Honors courses and fulfill the college’s participation requirement to maintain good standing in the Wood Honors College.

More information about the Wood Honors College is available at https://www.ship.edu/academics/colleges/honors/.