Honors Program

The Honors Program at San Jacinto College casts learning in a brilliant new light. It’s full of rich educational experiences, free-flying ideas, creative projects, stimulating seminar-style classes, fascinating international travel, community stewardship and team leading opportunities.

As an honors student you can earn scholarships for tuition, books and travel. You’ll enjoy small classes and close interaction with professors. You get priority registration, access to the Honors computer lab, chances to present at national conferences, visits from distinguished guest lecturers, and much more.

Determining if you qualify and applying to the program is quick and easy, so join us today! There is no cost to join the Honors Program

If you’d like more information, call us at 281-929-4614 or email janna.lasater@sjcd.edu.

Take Flight Rice Partnership

The Take Flight Stem Scholar program is a cohort co-curricular pathway for honors students interested in STEM careers.

The program has two tracks: one for first-year students, known as the STEM Engagement for Continuing Students, and one for students in their second-year students, known as the Transfer Ready track. Both groups will have access to specialized curricular and co-curricular STEM opportunities collaboratively offered by Rice and STEM faculty and mentors. Take Flight students will also get specialized application support for funded, summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates, or REUs, which are offered by Rice University and other sites around the country and are funded by the National Science Foundation. For the first-year track, additional programming will focus on career exploration, while second-year students will receive STEM-specific advisement on selective-transfer application writing and transfer preparedness.

In partnership with San Jacinto College and Lone Star College

Take Flight Rice Partnership

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The San Jacinto College Honors Program provides highly-motivated students with unique, innovative learning opportunities that include scholarships, smaller seminar-style classes, attentive instructors, and inquisitive classmates. The Honors Program emphasizes skill sets that are desired by prospective employers and four-year institutions. Students who take advantage of the SJC Honors Program enter universities and the workforce with an edge in these pursuits.

The Honors Program strives to create an environment in which students not only succeed, but thrive—a safe environment where we can feel free to engage new ideas—a place where we can allow ideas to challenge us while we challenge them—and exceed expectations. Honors students at San Jacinto College’s three campuses participate in enriched coursework, travel, and projects that enhance their undergraduate experience.

Participating in the Honors Program, students will develop:

Critical & creative thinking skills
Communication skills
An understanding of diversity & global issues
Leadership & teamwork skills
Community service, social responsibility, & civic engagement

We strive to put learning outcomes into practice through real-world opportunities, also known as experiential learning, in the form of internships, travel, and faculty-directed projects. An honors education is a different style of learning–enriched, enhanced, and transformational.

Become an Honors Program graduate by completing 15 credit hours of honors coursework upon graduating (Students starting classes in Fall 2017).

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