Division of Development and Alumni Relations

Support the Promise
of the Honors College

The South Carolina Honors College provides a superlative undergraduate education for academically gifted students. With a focus on the individual educational needs, abilities and aspirations of each of its students, the College draws on the full resources and academic depth of a comprehensive research university. At the core of the Honors College mission is the belief that each individual student matters and that each deserves a program of study which fits their individual goals and needs.

About the South Carolina Honors College

The Honors College enrolls exceptional students, provides them personalized advising, an extensive honors curriculum, and state-of-the-art housing options. Our students leave with a superior undergraduate education, ready to pursue postgraduate study or enter the workforce as leaders. Ours is an educational recipe that works.

With our new "Honors Beyond the Classroom" requirement, the Honors College is taking the lead in developing a liberal arts curriculum for the 21st Century. Graduation with a degree with Honors from the South Carolina Honors College requires 45 honors credits including courses across the liberal arts curriculum, and a culminating senior thesis or project.

Students who complete this significant program of study, in addition to their major and other requirements, leave the University with a strong grounding in a 21st Century liberal arts curriculum that prepares them to be leaders in their future careers and communities.

Our University's living and learning communities have been lauded nationally, and the new Honors Residence community - opened in 2009 - continues that quality trend.  We're proud that this student housing is the first Gold LEED-certified building on campus. The academically-themed community emphasizes active service-learning experiences, study-abroad opportunities, and undergraduate research.  Our Honors College students are encouraged to pursue research in all disciplines from arts to science and business to math.

Priorities

We are growing—in quantity and quality—and so are our needs. With your support we can provide more student scholarships, more student research positions, more internship opportunities, and more help for special course needs. We are taking learning on the road, with domestic and international trips that enhance the Honors College experience. With your support, we will be able to do more to provide help to defray travel expenses for our students.

If you’re an alum, this won’t be the first time you’ve heard about the joys of giving back to your alma mater. If you’re a parent or a friend of the Honors College, your help is just as valuable. Please help us to continue to live up to our commitment to provide the best of a small college education in the heart of a comprehensive research university.

Your gift to the South Carolina Honors College will help support student scholarships, student research opportunities, and special course needs. Make your gift by filling in the "Give Today" box above.