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Challenging Minds to Change the World
The Honors College provides an enhanced education and an intellectual community to a select cohort of the university’s highest-achieving undergraduates. Its flexible curriculum integrates seamlessly with Auburn’s degree programs, enhancing standard courses through dynamic, multidisciplinary and metacognitive approaches.
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Admissions
Discover the resources, opportunities, and benefits the Honors College offers our students.
If you have received an invitation to apply, or hope to receive one, learn more about our streamlined application process.
If you have received an invitation to apply, or hope to receive one, learn more about our streamlined application process.
Have questions? We have answers. We’ve listed some of the most common questions we hear from prospective students and their families.
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Visit Us
Learn more about the Honors College through a one-on-one meeting with our recruitment team! Our Honors Ambassadors will share more about their Honors experience, while covering everything Honors including our flexible curriculum designations, membership benefits, student involvement opportunities, application process, and more.
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Visit Us
Learn more about the Honors College through a one-on-one meeting with our recruitment team! Our Honors Ambassadors will share more about their Honors experience, while covering everything Honors including our flexible curriculum designations, membership benefits, student involvement opportunities, application process, and more.
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News
On Dec. 3, 2025, more than 50 students and faculty gathered at the Hotel at Auburn University for a luncheon celebrating National Prestigious Scholarships (NPS) Aspirants and their Outstanding Mentors.
January 06, 2026
This past November, Auburn University’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, Gamma of Alabama, held its first initiation ceremony since the chapter moved into the Honors College last year.
January 06, 2026
Featuring a staple of the Honors College’s curriculum for the past decade - HONR 3001, “The Business of Creativity and Innovation,” a seminar taught by Christopher Qualls, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance.
December 02, 2025
Events
On Dec. 3, 2025, more than 50 students and faculty gathered at the Hotel at Auburn University for a luncheon celebrating National Prestigious Scholarships (NPS) Aspirants and their Outstanding Mentors.
January 06, 2026
This past November, Auburn University’s chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, Gamma of Alabama, held its first initiation ceremony since the chapter moved into the Honors College last year.
January 06, 2026
Featuring a staple of the Honors College’s curriculum for the past decade - HONR 3001, “The Business of Creativity and Innovation,” a seminar taught by Christopher Qualls, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance.
December 02, 2025
January 12 | 4 - 5 p.m.
Curious about what the Honors College has to offer this spring? Join us for our Open House and explore exciting opportunities! Meet our team and discover how Honors can enhance your Auburn experience!
January 13 | 10 a.m.
January 15 | 2:15 p.m.
January 16 | 1 p.m.
Interested in course contracting? Creating a course contract is a great way for Honors students to receive Honors credit in their non-Honors classes by adding an extra learning component to the class outside of the work already expected from them. Choose from one of the three available dates. All are hosted by our student associates in the Cater conference room.
During Dinner Discussions with the Director, Dr. Stevens hosts an informal dinner in Cater Hall with up to ten Honors students and one featured guest. Discussion will be focused on a "big question" posed by the guest or on the topic, "How I got here." The discussion with Dr. White will focus on the question: What should the role of the military be in a democracy? Dinner will be Mellow Mushroom pizza and salad. Chairs for dinner will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Sign up through links in newsletter or social media.
The Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society will host a free lecture and book signing with Ed Yong. Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter whose fascinating presentations on animals and the natural world are infused with humor, joy, wonder and infectious enthusiasm.
