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Welcome to the University Honors Program

The University of Denver offers a challenging Honors Program for talented students who seek an advanced liberal education, lively dialogue with their peers and faculty on important issues, study abroad in first-rate universities, and the chance to achieve distinction in their majors. Our aim in the Honors Program is to give Honors students the chance to cultivate the knowledge, skills, and world view needed to be successful in our increasingly complex and globalized world.

The Honors Program is over forty years old and comprises a group of 350 students. Each year, the University admits some 60 high school graduates (average SAT 1350/ACT of 28) into the Honors Program. In 2007 this group includes 15 Boettcher Scholars, the largest number of such scholars entering any college or university in Colorado. (The Boettcher Scholarship is the highest award for college study given to graduates of Colorado high schools.) In recent years, a number of our students have won distinguished scholarships (such as the Rhodes, Marshall, and Fulbright) and many have gone on to complete graduate and professional degrees in highly competitive schools.

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Will Carspecken named to USA Today All Academic Second Team

We are proud to announce that Will Carspecken has been named to the USA Today All-American Academic Second Team and will be featured in the Life Section of the paper on Feb. 15, 2007. Will is a senior Honors student pursuing the BS/BS Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, with minors in Mathematics and Spanish; he is also enrolled in the dual degree MBA program with a concentration in BioEnterprise. He came to us from Estes Park as a Boettcher Scholar and was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship in November 2006. Will is the 5th DU student to be named to the USA Today All-American Academic team in the last 5 years.  Congratulations, Will!