Honors Program
The Honors Program at San Jacinto College casts learning in a brilliant new light. Our program is full of rich educational experiences, creative projects, travel and leadership opportunities. The Honors Program is free to join and applying is easy.
Become an Honors Student
Honors Program Benefits
The Honors Program comes with many advantages. In addition to being a distinguished honors graduate, you’ll also benefit from:
- Scholarships for tuition, books, and travel
- Access to specialized, seminar-style, small classes
- Access to the Honors computer lab
- Opportunities to present at national conferences
- Visits from distinguished guest lecturers
- Internship and resume-building opportunities
- Participation in community service, social responsibility, and civic engagement
Admission Criteria
To be an honors student, you must be a:
- Continuing San Jac student, transfer student, or Dual Credit/Early College High School/MECA student with at least 12 college credit hours and a 3.25 cumulative GPA
- Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society member
- First-Time-In-College (FTIC) students, Dual Credit/Early College High School/MECA/Home-schooled
students with fewer than 12 college credit hours who meet at least one of the following
criteria:
- 3.25+ accredited high school GPA
- Score of 4 or 5 on an Advanced Placement (AP) exam
- Top 20% of high school graduating class
- Minimum SAT score of 1160 (i.e., critical reading and math combined)
- Minimum ACT score of 26
- Approval of the director or campus coordinator after a personal interview
- Returning or non-traditional students who have completed at least 12 college credit hours in the past five years with a 3.25+ cumulative GPA for the most recent 12 college credit hours
- Veteran
Graduate with Honors
Find Out the Details
Over 50 honors courses are offered each semester across each of our campuses. Explore your options for next semester and register for a class that interests you.
Honors Program Partnerships & Affiliates
If you’re an active honors student interested in transferring to a Tier 1 university, the Take Flight Scholars Program (TFSP) offers unique research and networking opportunities for you. TFSP is a partnership between San Jacinto College and Rice University. Originally launched as a STEM program, TFSP expanded in fall 2025 to include business, humanities, and social sciences in addition to STEM.
The program offers two tracks: Engagement for Continuing Students, designed for first-year students, and Transfer Ready, aimed at second-year students. In the first-year track, programming focuses on academic and career exploration. Second-year students receive specific advisement on selective transfer application writing and overall transfer preparedness.
Both groups have access to specialized academic opportunities offered by Rice University and its faculty and mentors, including conferences and guest speakers. As a Take Flight student, you’ll also receive targeted application support for funded summer research experiences for undergraduates. Take flight with this unique opportunity, offered exclusively to honors students.
If you’re an active honors student interested in transferring to a Tier 1 university, the Take Flight Scholars Program (TFSP) offers unique research and networking opportunities for you. TFSP is a partnership between San Jacinto College and Rice University. Originally launched as a STEM program, TFSP expanded in fall 2025 to include business, humanities, and social sciences in addition to STEM.
The program offers two tracks: Engagement for Continuing Students, designed for first-year students, and Transfer Ready, aimed at second-year students. In the first-year track, programming focuses on academic and career exploration. Second-year students receive specific advisement on selective transfer application writing and overall transfer preparedness.
Both groups have access to specialized academic opportunities offered by Rice University and its faculty and mentors, including conferences and guest speakers. As a Take Flight student, you’ll also receive targeted application support for funded summer research experiences for undergraduates. Take flight with this unique opportunity, offered exclusively to honors students.
San Jacinto College has been an active member of the National Collegiate Honors Council
for more than 25 years. As an active honors student, you can apply for NCHC scholarships, events, summer
institutes, scholarships and more.
Each year, San Jac honors students are invited to attend the NCHC conference held
in various locations around the country. The conference is a great opportunity for
you to network with other honors students and faculty from across the country and
possibly present on your research and creative projects.
The Great Plains Honors Council brings honors students together every year for a fall undergraduate research conference and a spring honors retreat. As a San Jac honors student, we encourage you to attend to meet other honors students in the area and present your work and publications.
The Gulf Coast Intercollegiate Honors Council brings honors students together every year for a fall undergraduate research conference and a spring honors retreat. As a San Jac honors student, we encourage you to attend to meet other honors students in the area and present your work and publications.
As a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), you have the opportunity to work with other honors students from around the world. CUR events focus on providing high-quality, collaborative research and activities. Attend events to learn about successful models and strategies for research, creativity, and getting published.
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Honors Program Annual Reports
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