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Michael B. Stoff, Director WCH 4.104, Mailcode G3600, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-1442

We're Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin. What starts here changes the world....

You embrace a challenge.  You're open to discovery. You want to change the world, for yourself and for others.  Consider, Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin, committed to innovative learning and research.  Plan II encourages creativity, analysis and critical thinking while offering students opportunities to find solutions to real-world problems.  Imagine yourself on a campus at the heart of a vibrant city that expands opportunities for learning—while still keepin' it weird.  Become a part of a diverse UT community known around the world for its bold spirit of pride and competitiveness.  Realize you're free to question ideas, pursue long-held passions and explore new interests.  Define your future as you redefine what's possible.

Plan II students explore everything that makes us human in the best sense, from ancient poetry and philosophy to the latest discoveries in genetics and cosmology.  Established in 1935, Plan II is a challenging interdisciplinary honors major with a required core curriculum that includes the study of literature, philosophy, society, the arts, math and the natural sciences.  The Plan II Honors major provides freedom to cross intellectual and disciplinary boundaries.

A Renaissance Education for the Twenty-First Century



Fall 2013 Application

The ApplyTexas and Honors applications for fall 2013 will open on August 1.   Use the Plan II application information, FAQs and other links to prepare for the December 1, 2012 deadline.  Plan II encourages an October 15 priorty completion date

  • Visit Plan II Information Session to make a reservation and find maps to parking and helpful links.  Registration for fall 2012 information sessions will open in late June.

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The tobacco-free campus policy prohibits use of any tobacco products in university buildings and on university grounds, including parking areas, sidewalks, walkways, attached parking structures and university owned buildings.

Temporary tobacco use locations available through February, 2013. 

Tobacco cessation resources

News

Anjali Datta, Plan II/Engineering Senior, Receives Hertz Foundation Fellowship

Anjali Datta, Photo by Emily Kinsolving
Fifteen students in the nation receive a five-year, $250,000 Hertz Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate research at the university of their choice.

Plan II Honors Program at Top of Rankings in Newly Published Review

Over 75 years of excellence.
Public University Press evaluated and published the results in the Review of Fifty Public University Honors Programs

Plan II Honors 2012-2016 Forty Acres Scholars

96,000 Members Strong
We are very proud to announce that eight of the fourteen incoming 2012 Forty Acres Scholars are Plan II Honors majors

Plan II Seniors Awarded George H. Mitchell Student Awards for Academic Excellence

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George Miller, Plan II/Astronomy receives the $20,000 grand prize. Jillian Owens, Plan II/Religious Studies awarded $2,000.

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Plan II Alumni: 

Join the communication and resource group for alumni at Plan II Alumni & Friends

Events

Wed • Jun 6

Plan II Honors Orientation Meeting for...

WC Hogg 4.104, the Plan II Honors office (Hogg Heaven) and the Meyerson Room, WCH 4.118
8:00 AM

Wed • Jun 13

Plan II Honors Orientation Meeting for...

WC Hogg 4.104, the Plan II Honors office (Hogg Heaven) and the Meyerson Room, WCH 4.118
8:00 AM

Wed • Jun 20

Plan II Honors Orientation Meeting for...

WC Hogg 4.104, the Plan II Honors office (Hogg Heaven) and the Meyerson Room, WCH 4.118
8:00 AM

Wed • Jun 27

Plan II Honors Orientation Meeting for...

WC Hogg 4.104, the Plan II Honors office (Hogg Heaven) and the Meyerson Room, WCH 4.118
8:00 AM

Wed • Jul 11

Plan II Honors Orientation Meeting for...

WC Hogg 4.104, the Plan II Honors office (Hogg Heaven) and the Meyerson Room, WCH 4.118
8:00 AM
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