Welcome to the Public University Honors site! This is the only site on the web that is devoted entirely to the evaluation and discussion of public university honors programs and public honors colleges. Please visit the pages on the menu above, and then check out the monthly archives for interesting and valuable information about fifty leading public university honors programs. You can also put in a school name in the “Search” box at the upper right corner of this page and go directly to the posts and pages that mention the school.
Many people start out with the “Top Honors Programs” page, above, or “Rankings, Academic Departments,” or “College Value–Public Honors vs. Private Elites.” If you decide you need even more information than the partial lists on some of our pages, you might be interested in purchasing our book (see below) that has detailed stats and narrative profiles for all fifty programs. Before you purchase the book, we urge you to spend some time reviewing the “Methodology” page above.
The book, A Review of Fifty Public University Honors Programs, is now available for only $7.99, with full listings. A print edition will be available in late May. The kindle link allows a free “Look Inside.”
On the same page, there is a five-star review of the book by an 20-year college admissions counselor:
“If you’re a college counselor or independent consultant, you need this book. First of all, there is no other. Second, this one happens to be loaded with valuable information.
“In addition to providing detailed data on 50 of the best public honors programs and honors colleges in a format that allows easy comparison, it’s also a crash course on the world of honors programs. And a complicated world it is.
“The book is a great consumer guide for any student, or parent of a student, considering an honors college or program.
“It is not filled with entertaining sidebars and personal profiles. It is a serious study of an extremely important segment of the world of higher education.”
You do not have to own a Kindle to download the book to your computer. You can go to this link to get a free download to your computer and then you can purchase and read the Review on your computer.
Note: Please see the page “Fifty Honors Programs…” on the main menu for the list of specific programs reviewed in the book. Some universities have multiple honors programs, and we generally review only the best-known and largest of those offered.
If you purchase the Review and have additional questions, please contact Editor at info@publicuniversityhonors.com
The guidebook has 57,000 words of searchable narrative along with 58 charts, including comparisons in two major categories, Overall Excellence and Honors Factors. There is also a summary stats sheet for each program or college. The book compares honors programs with similar admissions requirements and provides detailed information about the impact of honors curriculum, prestigious scholarships (Rhodes, etc.), graduation rates, and the quality of benefits to honors students such as housing, study-abroad programs, and priority registration policies. Each program or college has a full narrative profile and a statistical summary page. The Review is 289 pages in length (e-format).
Meanwhile, there’s a lot of information on the site right now. Please see our pages for admission stats and other facts about the fifty programs.
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