There is a University Honors Program on each campus. In addition, for students who are particularly interested in global issues, there is the Global Scholars Program on the Metropolitan Campus and the Florham Scholars Programs on the College at Florham. Students may participate in the University Honors Program and the campus-specific programs at the same time.

University Honors Program

The University Honors Program recognizes students of high academic achievement and talent. It offers gifted and motivated students the opportunity to pursue a course of college study that combines a broad liberal education with intensive, guided study in a particular major field of interest. The Honors Program encourages experiential learning outside of the classroom. Students are offered the opportunity to pursue specialized internships, to take advantage of New York City’s and New Jersey’s varied cultural and educational resources, to undertake independent research and to prepare a senior honors thesis.

The curriculum of the University Honors Program features advanced honors sections of the University Core curriculum as well as a variety of other honors-level studies.

Freshman Year

• Honors English 1101
• Honors English 1102 (Metropolitan Campus only)
• Honors Core The Global Challenge
• Honors Contemporary Math 1126 (College at Florham only)
• Honors General Psychology 1101 (College at Florham only)
• Honors Development of Theater 1202 (College at Florham only)

Sophomore Year

• Honors Core Perspectives on the Individual
• Honors Core Cross-cultural Perspectives
• English 2201 Masterpieces of World Literature I (Metropolitan Campus only)
• English 2202 Masterpieces of World Literature II (Metropolitan Campus only)

Junior Year

• Honors Core The American Experience Junior Honors Seminar
• Honors Philosophy 1000 The Life of the Mind (Metropolitan Campus only)
• Biology 1105 The Human Environment (Metropolitan Campus only)

Senior Year

Senior Honors Research

Senior Honors Thesis

The FDU Honors Program scholar is a student interested in sharing in the community of scholarship and collegiality of the University. Each member of the program is an individual who has demonstrated a high degree of academic competency, intellectual curiosity and personal maturity. The honors student is an individual who has shown promise of benefiting from a program with specially focused curricular requirements, individual guidance and independent study. Honors students are eligible for Honors housing.  They participate in special extracurricular activities and present at regional and national Honors conferences. Entering freshmen with a 3.00 (B) grade point ratio in high school (3.25 College at Florham), combined SAT scores of 1,150 and a verbal SAT of 600 (verbal at the College at Florham only) or equivalent ACT scores are eligible for consideration to participate in the Honors Program.

Any qualified transfer student or currently enrolled student may apply for membership in the University Honors Program at any time during their college studies.

To qualify for University Honors Program recognition upon graduation, however, students must apply for admission into the program prior to the first semester of their junior year.

For detailed information about the University Honors Program, please contact the University Honors Program Office on each campus.