The Honors College at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, building on a fifty-plus-year tradition of honors education and enrichment, redefines what an interdisciplinary education can offer and lead to by inviting the highest achieving students from across New Jersey, the nation, and the world, to participate in our learning-living community that is at the center of an academically enriched community within an R-1 research institution, one of the nation's most diverse institutions of higher education, and one that is the epitome of "revolutionary" stemming from it origins as one of the original colonial colleges and its modern day manifestation as one of the most cutting-edge research institutions in the world.
As guidance and college counselors, we encourage you to come and visit, and get to see what the Honors experience at Rutgers is all about. We are happy to share with your a decade's worth of admission information, student profiles, conversations about our applicant evaluation process, and how we seek to provide an unparalleled educational experience, unmatched by any other school in the nation.
Here, on the banks of the Raritan River, the Rutgers Honors College and campus community bring together students from the liberal arts and professional schools to live and learn, to tackle complex problems in their disciplines, and transform their personal and professional goals into action. Through this experience, students learn essential skills—such as critical thinking, problem solving, social interaction, persistence, creativity, and introspection—that will help them contribute meaningfully to society and succeed in life.
We are committed to inspiring, empowering, and connecting our students through high-impact and enriched opportunities, and orient our students on how that leads to creating a community and world where all have access to the resources necessary to thrive. With unique learning collaboratives, workshops, networks, internships, research options, and cohort-based programming that can only be found collectively within our learning-living community, students are free to explore, achieve, excel, and define their own path.
If you teach and work with students who value intrinsic learning, who hold themselves to high standards, who value a transformative opportunity, and want the resources of a major university in a diverse and opportunity-rich geographical environment, and who thrive in an academically engaged setting, then Rutgers Honors College is for them!
What We Offer
Deep Network of Support
Our students benefit from the vast resources of Rutgers-New Brunswick, a leading global research institution, as well as the small college setting of the Honors College community. Students have access within the Honors College to live-in faculty; academic and professional development advisers; support for community, personal growth, and wellness; and the deans—a network of support from year one, to graduation, and for life.
Honors College Journey
Honors College students have exposure to research opportunities beginning in their first year, mentorships with faculty and business leaders, internships in the field, intensive development, and more. The Honors College Experience is a four to six year journey of community engagement, academic exploration, intentional service, leadership, and opportunity so that all may thrive.
A Community
Honors College Students can find their community through groups like HC Serves; HC Speaks; the Black, Asian, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ Affinity Groups; HC Media Team, and more. Across Rutgers, there are organizations like the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Center for Latino Arts & Culture, and others, plus over 750 student clubs in every interest imaginable.
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Interested?
We'd welcome the opportunity to speak with you and/or your students to share more about our interdisciplinary curriculum, our unique community, and our sustained focus on high-impact practices and student success.
Please contact the Honors College at honorscollege@rutgers.edu or 848.932.0990.