Honors Programs

Welcome to our friendly community of scholars!

Get ready to pursue knowledge on a whole new level, while enjoying special opportunities to learn, bond with your fellow honors students, and present your research at national honors conference across the country.

Your academic journey begins with the Honors Community Scholars Program. In this track, you and your close-knit cohort will spend your first two years in the College’s Honors Program taking classes that will challenge you to think even more critically and apply your studies to the world around you.

At the end of your sophomore year, you can apply to our highly selective Honors in the Major Program. If selected, you’ll spend your third and fourth years further refining your academic focus, and developing a signature project you’ll share at our annual honors symposium. You’ll also take a specially designed senior capstone course that will further connect the dots between all that you’ve learned and all that you can do with your honors education after graduation to benefit our world.


Community

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Hitting the books and having fun aren’t mutually exclusive. In the College of Arts & Sciences, 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. Plus, you can attend incredible LLC events throughout the year. No matter where you live, you can join the College honors community at special service projects and on fun field trips that will broaden your horizons outside of class.

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Resources & Opportunities

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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.

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Faculty

Faculty members of Suffolk University's College of Arts & Sciences pose together at a recognition event.Suffolk faculty members are student-centered and dedicated to promoting your success. You’ll engage in intellectual conversations with these mentors in their classrooms.

As an honors student, you can also join them for Facul-Teas—special events where they’ll share even more insights into the academic subjects they’re passionate about. Every semester, you’ll also benefit from a full calendar of visiting scholars who we’ve especially invited to speak to our honors community.

 

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Honors Student Spotlight

Lauren Muro-Belandria

Breaking new ground comes naturally for Lauren Muro-Belandria, BA ’23, a first-generation college student and American. So does striving to help others, from acting as a translator for her Spanish-speaking family as a child to working with Habitat for Humanity and advocating for reproductive justice during two Suffolk Alternative Spring Break trips.

Muro-Belandria, who studied politics, philosophy, and economics in the honors program at Suffolk, saw the opportunity to work towards global cultural understanding through the Fulbright Program’s English teaching assistant award. She was accepted into the prestigious Fulbright Program a few weeks before Commencement, spending nine months on a teaching assistant fellowship in Spain.

Read more of Lauren's story