Honors Programs

The University of Texas at Austin offers a wide variety of opportunities to pursue a rigorous, research-oriented undergraduate curriculum. Many of the college-wide academic honors programs listed below accept applications from first-year students. It is important to know that admission to study in one of UT Austin’s honors programs involves an independent application process, separate from your application for admission to the University. Additional honors programs exist within many academic departments. These departmental honors programs typically do not accept applications from first-year students. Contact your academic advisor to see if there is an honors program in your department.

McCombs School of Business

Business Honors Program
The Business Honors Program is more than smart students and small classes. It's a tight-knit community of students and the next great generation of thinkers and leaders, both inside the classroom and out.

College of Communication

Senior Fellows Honors Program
Senior Fellows is an invitation to excellence.
Participants have distinguished themselves in their studies at The University and are invited to join a program designed for the very best students in the College. The program outlined here will not meet every student's needs. But we think that it will be attractive to students interested in a special intellectual challenge.
Perhaps you are such a student.

College of Natural Sciences

Dean's Scholars Honors Program
The Dean's Scholars Honors Program offers exceptional science and mathematics majors a unique opportunity to enrich their undergraduate education in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1983, the Program has challenged talented and highly motivated undergraduates by introducing them to cutting-edge research and placing them in contact with superior students with similar aptitudes and interests.

Turing Scholars Honors Program - Department of Computer Science
Launched in Fall of 2002, the Turing Scholars Program is an honors program for outstanding undergraduates in Computer Sciences. It is designed to develop the academic and industrial leaders of tomorrow by offering the following opportunities:

An intensive, accelerated path through the core curriculum within the freshman year.
A sophomore class that exposes students to significant concepts that are often not encountered until graduate school.
Special honors sections of many upper-division CS classes.
A special sophomore class that introduces students to the department's research activities.
Opportunities to get involved in research as early as the junior year.

College of Engineering

Engineering Honors Program
The College of Engineering has an Honors program designed for outstanding students. Incoming first year students can apply through the Texas Common Application. Opportunities for selected students include Honors classes, opportunities for research activities, Honors academic advising, membership in the Engineering Honors Council, special seminars, and Honors social and cultural events.

College of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Honors Programs
The Liberal Arts Honors Programs office seeks to create an honors community with the atmosphere of a small liberal arts college while simultaneously participating in the unparalleled resources of a large university.

Plan II Honors Program
The Plan II Honors Program emphasizes individual contact and community. Small classes and a common curriculum develop a sense of intimate community among students, while the size of the University of Texas gives students an enormous range of freedom to pursue almost any interest, and provides extensive library, student services and computing infrastructures to do it well.