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 Study Abroad Program
Exciting new opportunities for Honors Program students in Iceland begin in summer of 2017!
Thinking Matters
Thinking Matters is an annual celebration of research here at USM. Honors is pleased to house this important program.
More Information
Honors Program hosts Thinking Matters
Thinking Matters is an annual student research symposium that showcases innovative learning and creativity.
Honors student Bryer Sousa presented “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel,” a TEDx talk, at UNE this spring
Bryer Sousa talks about how he has used his education to give back to the community.
Congratulations to the FOUR Honors Students who have won the UROP fellowships for 2016-17!
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) at USM is a scholarly fellowship program for student-faculty collaboration.
News
Internship Opportunity with Senator Susan Collins
Canis Major Internship Program (MEIF Funded)
Stay connected with the Honors Program by downloading the Free USM GuideBook App!
Honors student Bryer Sousa presented “Don’t Reinvent the Wheel,” a TEDx talk, at UNE this spring.
Congratulations to the FOUR Honors Students who have won the UROP fellowships for 2016-17!
Professor Assunta Kent directing Rachael Crothers's He and She