Core Honors is a place to explore your curiosity, broaden your academic and professional skill set, and build community. About 15% of the undergraduate student population, from all colleges and majors, are part of Honors, and they engage with the program in many different ways.  The Honors program learning goals complement any undergraduate major curriculum.

In the classroom: Core Honors students take Honors versions of their Marquette Core Curriculum classes, which are smaller, more discussion-based, and less reliant on exams. We emphasize cross-disciplinary, collaborative learning and putting knowledge into action. Students and faculty partner to offer high-impact educational experiences; a good example is our required first-year Honors class teaching civic discourse skills, in which a team of trained students facilitate weekly small-group deliberations on big questions.

Co-curriculum: We believe undergraduate research is a powerful learning tool, and we support student researchers through our MU4Gold Scholars program and our summer research fellowships.  Honors students study abroad at almost twice the rate of non-Honors students, and we offer competitive Honors study abroad awards. 

Community: One of the greatest benefits of Core Honors is the community students build across majors and interests.  Most Honors first-years choose to be part of our Honors Peer Mentor Program, led by older Honors students.  We offer an optional Honors Living-Learning Community in Straz Tower for incoming first-years and sophomores.  And in collaboration with our student programming team we host a variety of Honors events throughout the semester, from study sessions and student panels to field trips to the annual Honors Ball.  Check out our Instagram @marquettehonors to see what’s going on.