College and departmental Honors programs at NC State are designed
to provide more rigorous and enhanced learning opportunities
in specific disciplines for the most highly motivated and able
students. These upper-level programs provide a depth of learning
with a disciplinary emphasis, usually within a student's major.
Students are invited to participate in Honors programs based
on academic performance in their majors, generally during or
after the second semester of the second year. Most Honor programs
at NC State are departmentally based; the Honors programs in
the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of
Forest Resources, and the College of Textiles are college-wide.
Honors
in the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences