About the Program

The Azusa Pacific University Honors Program consists of enriched courses developed for talented and motivated students selected from each incoming freshman class. The curriculum fulfills a significant portion of the general education requirement, while challenging students with greater depth, intensity, intellectual rigor, and close student-faculty collaboration.

The class enrollment is limited to 15-18 students, and courses are designed by outstanding professors in their fields. In addition to the honors curriculum, the program offers extracurricular cultural and social activities, and international learning experiences. Honors units can also be earned in the High Sierra Semester and the Azusa Oxford Semester.

For qualified students, the Honors Program provides a challenge and an opportunity: the challenge to perform at their highest levels of excellence and the opportunity to develop their abilities to the fullest. A minimum of 21 units of honors curriculum must be completed in order to graduate as an Honors Scholar. The graduate receives a certificate of completion, brass medallion, and diploma stating the degree “with Honors.”