Honors

Your journey to the executive suite begins when you join the Sawyer Business School’s Honors Program. What you learn here will empower you to become a visionary business professional anywhere in the world.

Your expert faculty members will be excited to share their insights and professional contacts with you and your fellow honors students. They’ll also sharpen your business acumen one thought-provoking case study at a time. Plus, leaders from Boston’s renowned for-profit, public, and nonprofit sectors will add their perspectives as guest lecturers. You’ll work with CEOs, nonprofit heads, entrepreneurs, and others to solve real business problems and gain the kind of critical hands-on experience that defines attention-getting resumes.

You’ll gain key insights and hone essential presentation, collaborative, and critical thinking skills in honors-only sections of SBS core classes. Our marketing major offers special honors tracks, and most majors offer electives at the honors level. Plus, you can enhance your learning by taking Challenge Courses—one- or two-credit seminar-style classes that let you expand your skillset and delve more deeply into the subjects that intrigue you most. 

The Honors Experience

Suffolk honors student Anja Wight, Class of '27 Management/Marketing (Sports Marketing Concentration) Major, stands confidently in front of the entrance to 73 Tremont street on campus.“My team ended up winning a competition in our Business 101 course, where over 500 students compete. We just met in class and formed a little group and worked really hard. We had a five-hour session where we just presented over and over and over again. We brought in our friends to watch and help. Most of them were in the competition, so we brought in biology and other majors and said, ‘Sit down and listen to us!’ It just shows how much of a village is here when you need it.”

Anja Wight
Management/Marketing (Sports Marketing Concentration) Major
Class of 2027

Community

Three Suffolk students sit together in a dorm room chatting

Hitting the books and having fun aren’t mutually exclusive. In the Sawyer Business School, they go hand in hand!

If you live in Suffolk’s Honors Living Learning Community (LLC), you won’t even have to leave your residence hall to get to know your peers and attend incredible LLC events throughout the year. No matter where you live, you can find a sense of belonging and join the College honors community at special service projects, in case competitions, networking and career-themed events, and on fun field trips that will broaden your horizons outside of class.

Resources & Opportunities

Two Suffolk students looking at a computer screen at a data analytics competition.

We’re here to support your development as a scholar and as a leader. As an honors student, you’ll enjoy special academic advising so you can map out—and maximize—your course of study.

You can also hone your leadership skills by serving on the Honors Council or as an Honors Ambassador for prospective students. Plus, you’ll get invaluable career advice from honors alums who’ve parlayed their Suffolk degrees into professional success.

Suffolk Law Scholars

As an honors student, you can start making your way to your JD from the moment you’re admitted as a first-year undergraduate. That’s because, if you qualify, we’ll provisionally accept you to Suffolk University Law School.

You can complete your undergrad studies in either three or four years before completing your law degree in three. No matter which timeline you choose, we’ll offer the exceptional advising, mentoring, experiential learning opportunities, and enrichment events you’ll need to succeed.