Membership for Already Enrolled Students and for Transfer Students

Honors students who transfer to Arts and Sciences from another Ohio State college need to apply for membership in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program to retain their honors status. The application involves a dialogue with advisers and culminates, for freshmen and sophomores, in a first pass at a curricular definition of each student's vision of his or her honors program. Juniors and seniors will apply directly for candidacy in the program they intend to pursue (i.e., via the Honors Contract for with honors in the Arts and Sciences or the thesis proposal for with distinction).

Ohio State students who are not yet enrolled in an honors program, as well as students transferring to Ohio State from another university or college, must meet with an honors counselor to discuss application to the Arts and Sciences Honors Program. The counselor will determine whether a student is eligible for membership via application or must submit, and receive approval for, an Honors Contract or thesis proposal prior to admission to the program. Most students will be required to submit an Honors Contract or the official paperwork for the senior thesis to be considered for admission.

Students admitted to the Arts and Sciences Honors Program will receive the University Honors designation and will receive priority for course registration, honors housing, research conferences, and special campus events.