Honors Programming

The Honors Program at CT State provides students with academic enrichment to supplement their associate degree program. Throughout the cohort-based program, Honors students hone the academic, professional and interpersonal skills necessary for transfer and future academic and career success. Honors students benefit from a better teacher-to-student ratio, close faculty mentoring, special programming, independent study opportunities, and access to scholarships and unique opportunities (e.g., Honors Program students can take courses at four-year institutions in CT at no cost). As a result, most Honors Program students transfer to competitive four-year institutions (e.g., Wesleyan, Yale, Vanderbilt, NYU, Amherst College, UConn, etc) with significant scholarships.

The Honors Program is flexible enough to fit with most degree programs and students can use Honors Program courses to fulfill general education requirements. An Honors Program is offered on several CT State campuses. Students can apply for acceptance into the Honors Program on any campus that has one even if it is not their home campus and students do not have to switch their home campus if accepted into an honors program on a different campus. More information as well as the application can be found at https://www.ctstate.edu/honors

Additionally, the Business Administration program offers an honors degree. This program focuses on the business core as well as an emphasis on critical Math curricula. A minimum GPA of 3.4 is required for this option.

Honors courses

CT State offers students the opportunity to apply to take an honors course (e.g., Composition Honors, General Psychology Honors, U.S. History Honors) without being a member of the Honors Program.  Honors courses can be found in the course catalog with the designation “H” after the course code (e.g. ENG 1010H Composition Honors). Students must have a minimum 3.25 CT State GPA to be accepted into an honors course. Interested students can email the Honors Program coordinator on the campus at which the course of interest is being offered. More information can be found at https://www.ctstate.edu/honors

Academic advising assists students in establishing and achieving their academic, career, and transfer goals. CT State students have access to both trained professional advisors (Guided Pathways Advisors) as well as faculty content experts (Faculty Advisors). Students should meet with their advisor(s) at least once per semester and more often as needed. General information about advising and campus contacts are available on the CT State Advising webpage. Students are assigned specific advisors during their first semester; these are noted on their degree audits in the myCTState portal.