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students (above) wear gold tassels with their caps
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The Honors Program stimulates and encourages the best students
at Southampton Graduate Campus by enhancing their educational experience.
Honors students form a community of especially gifted and motivated
learners within the wider campus community. They are offered
a special curriculum designed to challenge and excite them,
easy access to faculty chosen for their dynamism and academic
accomplishment, and numerous extracurricular activities. Students
from all majors take part in the program. Graduating with an
honors diploma is a true mark of distinction and an asset in
launching a professional career. Currently there are one hundred
seventy-five honors students at Southampton, about fifteen percent
of the student body.
The program consists of several elements: honors courses,
a lecture series, the honors thesis, and extracurricular activities.
Click on the buttons to learn more about them, and about admissions
requirements and graduation. Click on program
requirements for more detailed information about Honors
Program regulations.
Students who complete all the requirements for an honors
diploma, maintaining a 3.25 GPA, completing the course requirements,
attending the lecture series, and writing a thesis, have their
names read at the Awards Convocation and receive gold tassels
which they wear at graduation. Honors diplomas have a gold
seal affixed to them, and receipt of the diplomas is noted
on students' transcripts.
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