This document provides information about the honors college at Texas Tech University. It highlights small class sizes, unique course topics, and engaging courses taught by top professors. It describes honors programs for first-year students, undergraduate research fellowships, and honors learning communities that provide housing. Requirements to graduate with honors include 24 credit hours of honors coursework and maintaining a 3.25 GPA. The honors college offers opportunities for study abroad, law school, medical school, engineering, architecture, and more.
5. First-Year Experience (FYE)
• Engaging Courses
with Top Professors
• Learning Community
Group (LCG)
• Passport Program
6. Honors College Majors
Honors Arts & Environment & the
Letters Humanities
• Humanities Based Degree • Humanities Based
with Flexible Tracks Degree, focusing on
• Study Abroad Nature and Literature
Requirement • Unique Coursework
• Completion of a Senior • Fieldtrips and Excursions
Thesis
7. Becoming a part of the Honor’s College
at Texas Tech has been one of the best
decisions I have made in college. The
faculty and staff know who I am and
genuinely care about me, they create a
family environment.
The Honor’s College been has been a
vital part in pursuing my dream of
improving education in Africa through
my non-profit Students FOR Students.
They have been there throughout my
student career and I am so grateful I
was able to be a part of the Honor’s
College family.
- Michela Esch
Senior 2013
10. Architecture and Honors
• Honors Discussion
Sections
• Exciting Study
Abroad
Opportunities
• Still in Development
11. Engineering and Honors
• 150 Access Program
• Waive the GRE with a 1300 SAT
• Honors Credit for Graduate Courses
• Automatic Graduate School Acceptance
with a 3.5 GPA
12. Prospective Law Students
• “3+3” Program
• Seminar Courses at
Texas Tech School of
Law
• Undergraduate Moot
Court
13. Go Abroad!
Study Abroad in
70 Countries
(The Honors College will help!)
14. Honors Learning Communities
Gordon and Murray Residence Halls
• Live with Other
Honors Students
• Personal Bathroom and
Shared Common Area
• Quiet, Academically-
Focused Dormitory
16. Requirements
• 24 Hours of Honors
Coursework
• 3.25 GPA
• “Highest Honors”
Requires the
Completion of a Thesis
17. Admissions and Application
• Required: 1200 SAT/26 ACT or top 10%
• Application deadline: February 1st
• Applications available on the Honors website
(www.honors.ttu.edu)
• Competitive Portfolio Review Process
18. Compass Program
Who?
• for high school students, as
their sophomore year
• for an enhanced educational
experience,
• for achieving more academically
How?
• apply to Texas Tech
• apply to the Compass Program
A high school junior or senior may be enrolled in collegiate-level courses provided he or she meets both the admissions and the curricular requirements set by the Honors College, including admissions to Texas Tech University. Compass Program students must be able to satisfy all curricular requirements for graduation from high school (including curricular requirements for college admission) no later than the spring semester of their senior year. All Compass Program students are required to submit an official high school transcript and ACT or SAT scores along with the signed Compass Program Application.Seniors: Minimum composite score of 1300 SAT or 29 composite ACT and a 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Transcript must show strong GPA in the area(s) in which they want to enroll.Juniors: Minimum composite score of 1200 SAT or equivalent ACT, rank in the top 10% of their class, and have a 3.4 GPA on a 4.0 scale. Transcript must show strong GPA in the area(s) in which they want to enroll.Home Study or Unaccredited High School StudentsCompass Program students who are receiving instruction at home or from an unaccredited high school must be 17 years of age and meet the requirements for high school seniors as listed above or be 16 years of age and meet the requirements for high school juniors as listed above.