Honors Program

Southern Nazarene Honors prepares gifted scholars to serve the world around them. Our program is designed to stimulate creative, interdisciplinary analysis, facilitate student-faculty mentorship, and enable high quality undergraduate research that will carry the student beyond graduation. By requiring participation in service-learning and cross-cultural experiences, we teach motivated students to lead by example. By encouraging excellence in scholarship and creative analysis, we create life-learners who will use their intellectual gifts to enrich the professional, social, and religious communities in which they live, beginning with the campus community at SNU. Honors Program students not only lead the larger community of students around them but nurture a community that values scholarship and service. The goal of Southern Nazarene Honors is to challenge students to challenge themselves, to strive without ceasing to be the best witnesses of true and godly scholarship that they can be.

The benefits of completing a degree through Southern Nazarene Honors are manifold:

The Tangible

Honors Scholarship covering over-the-block tuition up to 20 hours
Special Freshman Year Experience courses
Fewer General Education hours required in Honors track
Access to Honors Lounge in the Library
Early enrollment for classes after matriculation
Unlimited network printing privileges

The Intangible

Personal mentoring relationships with excellent faculty
Membership in a community of diverse but motivated and gifted learners
Research opportunities guided by students’ own interests
Scholarship and grant assistance for academically excellent work
Enhanced preparation and advising for post-degree professional and graduate school experiences
Increased opportunities for cross-cultural experience and international travel
Formative, integrative, and longer-term service-learning experiences to learn the needs of the world around us
The self-knowledge that comes from having actively applied oneself and surpassed one’s own believed limitations

Who Can Apply

Non-provisional, incoming SNU freshmen
Current SNU freshmen in good academic standing

Criteria for Admission

25+ ACT/1100+ or higher SAT (Math + Verbal)
Top 10% of high school graduating class preferred

Successful completion of Honors Program Application will include

Cover Letter expressing goals and commitment to service-learning and interdisciplinary learning experiences
HP Admissions Essay
Recommendations by two academic and/or work-related references

Application Due Date: First round 1 April. Please reader further for more details.

We are changing our application due dates and acceptance procedure a bit to coincide with the Storm Surge early registration days. In order to be properly advised on those dates, honors program applicants will need to have completed application to the Honors Program. Applicants will be given priority according to deadline. That is to say, if spots in the Honors Program fill up by 15 April, then no more applications will be considered. Please apply as early as possible, regardless of which Storm Surge you plan to attend.