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University Honors Program

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The Honors Program Experience

  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities
  • Honors Internships for juniors & seniors
  • Peer Tutoring
  • Small Classes and Seminars
  • Learning Community
  • Service-Learning

What Honors Program Freshmen Tell Us

  • 95% are satisfied with the quality of Honors classes
  • 99% would recommend Honors courses to fellow students
  • Comments from first semester Honors Course Evaluations:
    • It was a refreshing change from my other classes.
    • A strong teacher-student bond is developed.  With small classes, instructors have the opportunity to act on specific needs of students.
    • I really like the idea of linked classes.  You become close with classmates and become friends.
    • The professors are good at answering questions in full and they’re really patient.

What recent Honors graduates tell us

  • Nice to be surrounded by people who want to learn and are willing to work.
  • By far the most exciting classes of all were my Honors Colloquia.  In these classes, I collaborated with students from departments all across the university.  Such classes do not exist outside UNO’s Honors Program.
  • It gave me the opportunity to take some more challenging classes and classes that made me learn things I knew nothing about and otherwise would nave not taken (the colloquia,) but that did enrich my education
  • UNO is a large campus with a large student body.  Being part of the Honors Program made me feel like I had a home at the University.
  • The Honors Thesis was probably one of the most challenging, yet rewarding things that I’ve ever done.  Not everybody can say they have a thesis written at their university.  It was a way for me to really push myself and I enjoyed it.

Honors Program Student Characteristics, 2007

data current as of 9/25/2007

Gender
  Total Freshmen
Male 50.7% 49.5%
Female 49.3% 50.5%
Residency
  Total Freshmen
Nebraska 92.2% 93.5%
Other US 6.6% 6.0%
International 1.2% 0.5%
Top Six Counties in Nebraska for 2007 Freshmen
Douglas 85 Platte 7
Sarpy 25 Washington 4
Hall 10 Lancaster 3
Ethnic Representation
  Total Freshmen
Caucasian 88.5% 92.5%
African American 1.8% 1.0%
Hispanic 2.2% 1.5%
Asian American 2.6% 2.5%
Native American 0.4% 0.0%
International 1.0% 0.5%

Non-responses excluded

Academic Indicators
  Total Freshmen
ACT 29.2 28.5
GPA 3.481(S07) 3.910(HS)
Colleges
  Total Freshmen
Arts and Sciences 321 81
Business Administration 81 13
Public Affairs and Community Service 23 6
Education 49 9
Engineering and Technology 109 29
Communication, Fine Arts and Media 59 19
Information Science and Technology 89 21
University Division, Architecture, and Child, Youth and Family Studies 40 22
Total Honors Program 771 200