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About the Honors College
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Small classes offer honors students the opportunity to interact with faculty members and other honors students.
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Small and Selective
Established in 1959, the University of Missouri-Columbia Honors College is one of the nation's oldest. Widely acclaimed and often imitated, the program brings together the University's brightest, most motivated students and engaging professors in small, stimulating classes.
Honors College students are among the nation's most accomplished. Freshmen in the Honors College have an average ACT score of 30. The University's freshman class as a whole includes:
- 585 Bright Flight scholarship students
(Missouri residents)
- 178 high school valedictorians
- 434 Curators Scholars
- 454 Excellence Award winners
- 216 recipients of Nonresident Scholarships
In their junior or senior year, around 70 honors students are initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, America's most prestigious honor society. Recent Missouri honors graduates include seven winners of Fulbright Fellowships, two Truman Scholarship winners and a Rhodes Scholar.
Many of the University's most accomplished professors teach in the Honors College and enjoy the challenge of working with our best students. Honors College instructors are eager to try out new courses and approaches to teaching with professors from other disciplines. Together, honors students and their professors share an experience characterized by rigor, depth, multidisciplinary thinking and mutual support.
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