Southern Nazarene Honors prepares gifted scholars to serve the world around them. Our program is designed to stimulate creative, interdisciplinary analysis, facilitate student-faculty mentorship, and enable high quality undergraduate research that will carry the student beyond graduation. By requiring participation in service-learning and cross-cultural experiences, we teach motivated students to lead by example. By encouraging excellence in scholarship and creative analysis, we create life-learners who will use their intellectual gifts to enrich the professional, social, and religious communities in which they live, beginning with the campus community at SNU. Honors Program students not only lead the larger community of students around them but nurture a community that values scholarship and service. The goal of Southern Nazarene Honors is to challenge students to challenge themselves, to strive without ceasing to be the best witnesses of true and godly scholarship that they can be.

The benefits of completing a degree through Southern Nazarene Honors are manifold:

The Tangible

• Special Freshman Year Experience courses
• Honors-only upper-division courses and general education sections
• Access to Honors Lounge in the Library
• Honors Scholarship covering over-the-block tuition up to 20 hours
• Unlimited network printing privileges

The Intangible

• Personal mentoring relationships with excellent faculty
• Membership in a community of diverse but motivated and gifted learners
• Research opportunities guided by students’ own interests
• Scholarship and grant assistance for academically excellent work
• Enhanced preparation and advising for post-degree professional and graduate school experiences
• Increased opportunities for cross-cultural experience and international travel
• Formative, integrative, and longer-term service-learning experiences to learn the needs of the world around us
• The self-knowledge that comes from having actively applied oneself and surpassed one’s own believed limitations

Who Can Apply

•  Non-provisional, incoming SNU freshmen
• Current SNU freshmen in good academic standing

• 27+ ACT/1210+ or higher SAT (Math + Verbal)
• Top 10% of graduating class

Successful completion of Honors Program Application will include

• Cover Letter expressing goals and commitment to service-learning and interdisciplinary learning experiences
• HP Admissions Essay
• Recommendations by two academic and/or work-related references

Applications due by 1 May 2012 for first-round selections. Second-round applications are due by 1 July.

Download Faculty Recommendation Forms Here

For more information, please contact gweaver@snu.edu.