Intensely curious, active learners will excel in our Honors Program, a challenging, individualized program for academically talented students.

About 10 percent of students from a variety of majors are invited to join the Honors Program. Honors students typically embrace the total Susquehanna experience, contributing in leadership, performance, musical and athletics.

You'll follow a sequence of special courses and projects-complemented by discussion groups, lectures, off-campus visits and residential programs-throughout your four years at Susquehanna.

You'll have the chance join faculty at special events and conferences sponsored by the National Collegiate Honors Council.

First-year Honors students have the opportunity to elect to live together in a living-learning community designed specifically for them within a first-year residence hall.

Sophomore Essay is a two-semester-hour class, taken during the fall or spring of your sophomore year, in which you'll develop a research project on a subject of your choice.

The essay will addresses an original thesis that you've formulated and will sum up a semester of research and reflection in a well-argued position paper. 

You'll work with a faculty sponsor and can use this project to develop and integrate knowledge gained in previous academic work or to investigate a new subject.

The Honors Program associate director and one of the university's librarians lead the class.