Specialized Honors Programs

In addition to the university-wide Chancellor’s Honors & Haslam Scholars Programs, UT offers a growing number of honors programs designed to meet the specialized needs of students across a wide variety of disciplines and interests.

Typically, admission to these highly selective programs occurs in the student’s sophomore or junior year.  In most cases, students need not be members of the Chancellor’s Honors Program in order to earn admission to a college or departmental honors program. 

Multiple honors program memberships are encouraged and are commonplace.  For example, a student could be a Chancellor’s Honors student as well as a College Scholar and Baker Scholar, or a student could be a member of the Department of History Honors Program and a Baker Scholar, but not a member of the Chancellor’s Honors Program. 

College Honors Programs

College of Arts and Sciences
College Scholars

College of Architecture and Design

The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
Honors Research and Creative Achievements Program

College of Business Administration
Global Leadership Scholars

College of Engineering

The Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy
Baker Scholars

For a list of departmental honors programs, click here.