The City College Honors Program
About Us The City College Honors Program offers selected, high-achieving students in all disciplines a particularly challenging academic program in small classes. The curricular center of the program is the Honors Liberal Arts core, an enhanced and enriched version of the required core that includes interdisciplinary courses in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. It provides an excellent academic base regardless of a students’ eventual specialization. Small classes are taught by outstanding faculty, who encourage student participation and rigorous study.
Students in the City College Honors Program receive:
- Consideration for CCNY scholarships of up to $10,000 per year for four years
- Interdisciplinary courses that offer exceptional intellectual challenges and rewards
- Intensive mentoring and advisement from faculty and dedicated honors advisors
- First-day registration privileges
Eligibility Entering first-year students must have a high school average of at least 85% and appropriate performance on the standardized tests, SAT or ACT.
Students in any major may be accepted into the Honors Program. Students accepted into both the Honors Program and the Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education B.S./M.D. program (which requires a special application) cannot enroll in both programs, but must select one.
For the class admitted fall 2007 (Class of 2011), the average high school G.P.A. was 92.1 (on a scale of 100) and the average SAT (math and verbal) was 1277.
Admission
New first-year students will be considered for the program if they have applied to the Macaulay Honors College at The City College (see below) or if they have applied for scholarships at City College using the scholarship application available for downloading from www.ccny.cuny.edu under the headings Prospective Student/Admissions/Scholarships. Students applying via the Macaulay Honors College need not submit a regular CUNY admissions application. Students applying using the City College Scholarship form must also submit a regular CUNY application form (available at http://cuny.edu), indicating City College as their college of choice.
A small number of incoming transfer and continuing students are admitted to the program at the discretion of the director. To be considered these students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher and should have at least five general education (core) course requirements remaining, depending on their majors. Transfer students must have applied for admission to City College (online at http://cuny.edu) and submitted the City College scholarship application (download from http://ccny.cuny.edu under the headings Prospective Student/Admissions/Scholarships. Continuing students are considered only for fall term admission. They should submit the
City College Continuing Student Honors Program Application, which is available here, or from the Honors Center (cityhonors@ccny.cuny.edu).
Requirements Students in the City College Honors Program complete their general education (core) requirements in honors core courses. All students entering fall 2007 semester (except B.A. students) in the City College Honors Program take five prescribed core courses. Additional required courses vary depending on the student’s degree objective. For B.A. students enrolling fall 2007 semester or later, the revised core requires completion of the same number of courses, but these courses meet different criteria. In honors, the courses will remain substantially the same.
Retention Criteria Retention in the honors program requires full-time status and a cumulative 3.0 G.P.A. Upon successful completion of the honors program, the designation “Liberal Arts Honors” is entered on the student’s transcript.
