The Louisiana Tech University Honors College is really home of academic enrichment at Louisiana Tech.
The community and opportunities that you find here are unparalleled.
One of the benefits of being in the Honors College is being surrounded by like-minded people that encourage you to study with them, hang out with them, and give you just a sense of community.
Not only am I taking these general classes, but I'm taking them with people that want to do big things and are academically very strong. And so being next to them challenged me and pushed me to think critically about the things around me.
The Honors Program is our only selective admissions part of the Honors College. Study abroad, undergraduate research, and nationally competitive awards are open to everyone who is a part of the university. The Honors Program, the selective admissions part, has smaller class sizes, but they're not intended to be any harder, they're just meant to enrich the conversations that are part of that discipline.
Because of the Honors College, I was able to meet people that knew other people that were able to give me opportunities like working as a student worker in the Counseling Center with the rest of the counseling staff.
So, one of the big benefits for me being in Honors College is that I came from a smaller school, so I didn't have any credits coming into college, and naturally I wanted to join the Honors College because I wanted to strive for academic excellence.
I think it's really cool how the Honors College offers students a really big variety of options. Study abroad is an option, as well as being able to take elective classes in multiple disciplines in case maybe you're engineering, but you're interested in also doing something with art or psychology. The majors really melt together, and you're able to explore every single interest that you want to.
One of the best benefits about being part of the Honors Program is that our students get to register early for their classes. So we do honors advising, so all of our honors students have an honors advisor and an academic advisor, just another layer to help support them academically. And then when it's time to register for those classes, our students are at the beginning of that line, priority for all four years of their time at Louisiana Tech.
