Marquette’s University Honors Program is designed for intellectually curious, academically engaged students who want to learn in a close-knit community of their peers at the heart of a vibrant research university. Its broadly based, interdisciplinary curriculum addresses our most pressing contemporary challenges with cutting-edge knowledge and research and the wisdom of centuries of Jesuit values and pedagogy. The University Honors Program offers an intense, individualized and experiential education by which students learn to become leaders — at Marquette and in their careers.
The UHP offers two ways to participate in Honors: Core Honors, in which students follow an Honors version of the Marquette Core Curriculum throughout their undergraduate career; and Disciplinary Honors, in which students do Honors work in their majors. Students may participate in either program or both. Core Honors is open only to incoming first-year students who are eligible to apply after being accepted to Marquette; students apply to Disciplinary Honors programs in their sophomore year. Core Honors offers an Honors Living-Learning Community in Straz Tower for first-years and sophomores. For more information on both programs, please browse our website or contact us!
News and Events
Sign up for advising appointments with your Honors Academic Advisor
Dr. Karalee Surface
Advising calendar
Sound Judgment
Fri. 11/1 9pm Marquette Place
Can you talk about music for hours? Are you constantly in search of your favorite song? Join this honors-sponsored event and spend time with 88.9 Radio on-air host Ayisha Jeffers who will take your opinions back to the 88.9 programming team. For more information.
Honors Orientation Events
Honors students in the Honors Living-Learning Community moved in to Straz Tower on Wed., 8/21 and gathered for two days of academic orientation and events that included visits to the Haggerty Museum of Art, the Urban Ecology Center, and 88Nine Radio Milwaukee.
Congratulations to University Honors Program Class of 2019 Award Winners
MU4Gold: Mentoring Exceptionally Able Students and Promoting a Culture of Research on Campus
Meet the newly elected Honors Program Student Advisory Board
Congratulations to co-presidents Keeley Hayden and Alissa Wuorinen; Secretary Lauren Karls; Treasurer Devin McCowan; and Social Chair Claire Stanley on their election to the HPSAB e-board for 2019-20.
Jack Smedley accepted to University of Michigan's prestigious CERN REU Program
Jack Smedley, an Honors Physics student, has been accepted at the University of Michigan’s prestigious CERN REU program for summer 2019. Congratulations Jack for admission to the most competitive REU program in particle physics.
"Black Lens" Film Series at Milwaukee Film Festival highlights Black Culture
Donte McFadden of Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program team-taught the junior honors seminar #blacklivesmatter. He was recently featured on CBS 58 Sunday Morning for his work as co-founder of Black Lens an important extension of the Milwaukee Film Festival, an organization that will be sponsoring the Minority Health Film Festival Sept. 12-15, 2019.
Honors Student Christina Curtis: what it feels like to be at 13%
The Marquette Journal follows her back to campus after a lung transplant and bronchiolitis obliterans.
Alumni News
University Honors Program Research Presentations
The Honors Program demonstrated the variety of research within both the Honors Summer Research Fellows and the MU4Gold Scholars. For more information
HiH Information Session
Tues. 11/5, 4 pm
Sensenbrenner Hall 002
Disciplinary Honors in Humanities: open to all declared majors in English, Languages, Literature & Cultures, History, Philsophy, and Theology.
Study Abroad Scholarships Awarded for Spring 2020
Congratulations to the following students who have received $1500 Honors study-abroad awards for spring 2020: Joey O’Connor, Loyola University Chicago, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Emma Knott, the American College of Greece; and Cory Ehlenbach for Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) located in Winterthur, Switzerland.
All Honors Welcome Picnic
Honors students gathered for a picnic dinner during the first week of classes. Current students welcomed first-years and enjoyed the opportunity to meet and talk about the Honors experience at Marquette.
Prestigious Fellowship Workshops
Competitive fellowships and scholarships offer unique opportunities, both nationally and internationally, to expand your horizons and deepen your understanding. Across a variety of fields and disciplines, they fund undergraduate and graduate degrees and projects as well as summer fellowships and internships. For more information.
Honors Peer Mentor Program
Thanks to junior Hannah Hamwi’s leadership, Honors launches HPMP, the Honors Peer Mentor Program, with pizza and introductions. If you’d like to get involved, there’s still space.
Info Session on Honors Summer Research
Honors Director Amelia Zurcher offered an info session and a workshop with the Ott Writing Center to walk interested students through the proposal-writing process. More information.
- Honors Students Explore the Reality of a Mission to Mars
Milwaukee’s CBS 58 Sunday Morning visits the Honors Program capstone seminar (HOPR 3957H) to learn about what a Mars mission would actually entail.
