Living in Honors, many students start out in Balsam Hall, get their academic start with Honors courses or by signing Honors contracts or customizing their courses or majors, and then move ahead with funded undergraduate research or via the interdisciplinary Special Studies degree, Humanities Program, or Pre-Professional Program.

Honors students also may choose to join The Honors College Board of Directors and, working with the dean, run their college in partnership with the off-campus Honors College Advisory Board. When they complete their studies, they wear the Honors Medallion and graduate with The Honors College Diploma.
   
For more information on life as a WCU Honors student, please contact The Honors College. We look forward to hearing from you.

Below: February 4, 2009: Dean Railsback meets with some of the students who will attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research  in Wisconsin.  For the 2009 conference, 48 projects were accepted from WCU this year. The Honors College will send the largest out-of-state NCUR team in the university’s history. 

Here is a list of the accepted projects from Western Carolina University.