Honors Programs
Through the Honors Program, Mount Saint Mary College allows selected students to pursue advanced courses. The students work closely with an academic adviser and the Honors Program Coordinator to create a challenging academic curriculum that will engage the student's interests. It can include study abroad, independent study, and research on specific topics and projects. Social and cultural activities are also encompassed to provide an opportunity to interact with faculty and other Honors students. The student must be capable of meeting the rigors and challenges of sophisticated work outside the traditional curriculum.
The Honors Program comprises academic, cultural and social activities, each of which complements and reinforces the others. While designed for traditional undergraduate students, the program is open to non-traditional students as well.
Honors Program Features:
- You’ll have an opportunity to take two to three unique courses in your freshman year. Your classmates will be a diverse group of students who are interested in enhancing their learning experience at the Mount.
- Day trips - The Honors Program is more than a classroom experience. As an Honors Program student, you’ll participate in a number of day trips to historic and cultural centers in the greater Hudson River Valley, as well as trips to New York City and New England.
- Sophomore Honors Program students will continue their learning experience in seminars that focus on Hudson River Valley topics ranging from art and history to politics and ecology.
- You’ll be encouraged to take advantage of the college’s lecture series as well as other lectures and performing arts programs in the area.
Honors Program Benefits:
- You’ll have an opportunity to engage in intellectual and creative pursuits that will support your academic work in other courses.
- You’ll be part of a supportive group of like-minded peers.
- You’ll collaborate and interact socially and collegially with the Mount’s Honors faculty.
- You’ll be encouraged to participate in one or more of the Mount’s Summer Abroad Programs (now in Oxford, England; Dublin, Ireland; and Segovia, Spain). And you’ll also have an opportunity to explore semester of full-year abroad programs around the world.
Honors Program Recognition
- You’ll have an opportunity to graduate with high honors.
- You’ll participate in a special Honors Recognition Ceremony.
- Your successfully participation in the Honors Program will be duly recorded on your official college transcript.
Contact Us
Office of Admissions
Mount Saint Mary College
330 Powell Ave.
Newburgh, NY 12550
888-YES-MSMC
845-569-3248
admissions@msmc.edu
www.msmc.edu
