Prospective Students

Welcome to the Chancellor’s Honors Program (CHP) web site!  If you have questions that are not answered within these pages, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The Chancellor’s Honors Program is the University of Tennessee’s largest and only university-wide honors program.  Our students are 5% of all undergraduates and major in every discipline offered at the University.

The Chancellor’s Honors Program anchors UT’s unique decentralized system of honors programs and opportunities.  As such, our students are also selected for membership in the specialized honors programs offered by the Colleges of Engineering, Business, Arts & Sciences, and Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. In addition, the university features 25 separate departmental honors programs that range from Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics to Architecture, History, and English, as well as such highly specialized programs as the Baker Scholars Program sponsored by UT’s Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy. 

Who should apply?  

Chancellor’s Honors students seek enhanced and enriched academic challenges.  They are interested in developing their leadership capacity.  They want to undertake faculty-mentored independent research and scholarship.  They want to engage in international and intercultural learning.  They seek participation in a community of scholars.  They are committed to maximizing their intellectual and creative potential.
                
If this sounds like you, then please consider submitting an application.  While admission to the Chancellor’s Honors Program is highly selective, we are not constrained by strict GPA or test score minimums.  Through our holistic review process, we seek a diverse group of top students, not a narrow range of top scores.  Even so, the typical Chancellor’s Honors student has earned excellent high school grades in a rigorous curriculum, scored on average a 31 composite ACT, and excelled in leadership, service, and other forms of extracurricular activities.