Honors Program
The Honors Program provides high-achieving students with a diverse & rigorous curriculum; a collaborative environment that emphasizes research, community engagement, leadership, social responsibility, international experience, and intellectual independence. Learn more about Honors Program.
Highlights
Why choose USM's Honors Program?
How about access to the great City of Portland! Museums, restaurants, sailing, parks, live music - Portland is a great place to be!
The Honors Minor
The Honors Minor is an interdisciplinary pathway through the USM Core Curriculum. To complete the Minor, students may choose from a menu of discipline-specific Honors course offerings.
Honors Abroad
Exciting new short-term travel opportunities for first-year Honors students!
More Information
Featured Graduate: Melissa Cunningham
Melissa, a recent Honors Program graduate, is dedicated to caring for people who are poor, homeless, dealing with addiction or coping with mental illness
Student Spotlight: Shaelan Donovan
Shaelan shares her Iceland Internship Experience!
Video: A Partnership Between USM and Iceland Universities
Learn more about USM's growing relationship with Icelandic universities.
News
Award-winning documentary, Dawnland, screening at USM on Nov. 16th
Reza Jalali’s “The Poets and the Assasin” to be performed at USM on Feb. 14
USM's Jalali speaks at ceremony honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Award-winning author to speak about 'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North' at USM's 2nd annual W. E. B. Du Bois lecture event Nov. 6
First Iranian film festival in Maine to be hosted by USM Honors program as part of year-long Gloria S. Duclos Convocation
USM to host “Descendants of Henrietta Lacks” bioethics lecture Oct. 13
