The Honors Program provides students with opportunities to advance their education through innovation, rigor, and community. Honors is ideal for students wishing to maximize their educational growth while at Gallaudet University, especially to gain admission to graduate school or improve their employment prospects after graduation. Honors students have succeeded in dramatic fashion, with all of our Capstone alumni admitted to the graduate school of their top choice. The schools range from the University of Iowa to Georgetown University to Sotheby's Institute of Art in London.

Honors maximizes a student's experience by recruiting and cultivating top faculty, building an Honors academic community, and providing students with as many quality opportunities as possible. Such opportunities include presenting at national and regional academic conferences, attending seminars throughout our nation's Capital, hosting student events throughout the semester, and engaging with faculty in research.

Students wishing to apply to Honors should review this website and contact geoffrey.whitebread@gallaudet.edu to schedule an interview. Students accepted to the Honors Program will receive an additional $4,000 scholarship annually. Incoming Honors students are expected and required to participate in the summer discussion board and Honors Orientation, in addition to New Student Orientation.

Honors Mission Statement

The Gallaudet University Honors Program is a community of students, faculty, and staff fostering the highest level of academic development and success among student learners. Promoting in depth critical thinking as well as personal development through a bilingual curriculum and commitment to benefitting from all forms of diversity, the Honors Program provides a comprehensive undergraduate program from recruitment to Honors graduation. Honors faculty, staff and students keep abreast of trends in the Honors education community nationally in order to develop the most effective alternative liberal education pedagogies, curriculum, and co- or extra-curricular programming.