University of Wyoming Honors College

The mission of the Honors College is 100% about the students — a truly exceptional group of people who make a difference at UW and in the world. Honors scholars are intellectually curious students from all majors who are creative, inspired by diverse ideas, and seek a greater understanding of their place in society.

With an average of 200 students in the first-year class and over 700 Honors students overall, each enjoys interdisciplinary courses uniquely created and taught within the Honors College, while earning an undergraduate minor degree or concurrent major degree in Honors.

Combine excellent students with superb faculty in small classes and the result is an invigorating and highly effective learning environment. Honors faculty talk with students, not at them. Honors students thrive in this stimulating environment, develop lasting friendships, and succeed in their academic and professional pursuits.

The Honors College currently offers a minor degree program. In Fall 2024, we will launch a concurrent major in Honors Interdisciplinary Inquiry.

Want to learn more about Honors? Explore this website and/or our Honors College Informational Brochure.

UPCOMING: DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER

Prize-winning science journalist and author Ed Yong will speak at the University of Wyoming Thursday, Feb. 6 at 4 p.m. in the Education Auditorium.

Yong will present a keynote lecture, “The Amazing Nature of Animal Senses.”

A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for an early and influential series of articles on the COVID-19 pandemic, Yong has written multiple New York Times bestsellers that demonstrate his wide-ranging expertise as a science journalist. His book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us,” received the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

The Honors College will host a lunch with UW students for Yong Feb. 6 to facilitate meaningful discussion and prepare for his keynote lecture in the afternoon. Those interested in attending the lunch and/or the lecture are asked to RSVP here.

For more information about the events, email honors@uwyo.edu.

To learn more about Yong and his work, visit https://edyong.me/.