Texas A&M University Catalog
University Honors Program
The University Honors Program challenges promising students to pursue intellectually stimulating and academically rigorous educational opportunities. The program is campus-wide, encompassing all undergraduate colleges in the University. As a result, honors students have access to the entire spectrum of educational resources available at Texas A&M. Honors courses and individualized research programs bring together outstanding students and faculty in an environment designed to encourage initiative, creativity and independent thinking.
Texas A&M’s most selective, competitive academic scholarships are administered by the Office of Honors Programs and Academic Scholarships. These include the President’s Endowed, Lechner and McFadden, National Merit, and Merit Plus Scholarships for incoming freshmen; the Hazelwood Scholarship and the Collegiate Excellence Scholarship for transfer students; and the Honors Incentive Award Scholarships for currently enrolled students. Texas A&M makes over 1,200 new awards of these prestigious scholarships each year in recognition of academic and leadership achievement. Academically successful Texas high school graduates may also qualify for the valedictorians’ tuition waivers coordinated by the Department of Student Financial Aid.
The University Honors Program provides recognition for undergraduate academic success at Texas A&M and a full range of support services for participants in the honors curriculum and recipients of academic scholarships. The Honors Program functions much like a small college within a comprehensive research university.