Program Requirements

To complete the Honors Program, you must fulfill requirements in the following areas:

Academics

To earn distinction as an Honors Program graduate, you must maintain an overall 3.2+ GPA, earn a minimum of 21 Honors credit hours, and complete a successful defense of your Honors Thesis or Capstone Project.

Honors Program Requirements

You must complete a minimum of 21 Honors credits at the bachelor's level. At least three of these can be earned by enrolling in the Honors Thesis or Capstone course. In addition, all incoming students with 30 hours or less are required to complete the HNRS 1000 course within their first 30 hours at 91��, unless they receive exemption permission from their campus director. (Students who enter the program with 60 credits or more are exempt from taking HNRS 1000.) Throughout your time in the Honors program, you will be enrolled in HNRS 1100, a zero credit tracking course that ensures that you remain in good standing.

Honors students may earn Honors Program credits through taking standalone and/or embedded Honors Program Courses or by working with their professors to develop Honors Contract Courses.

Good Standing

The Honors program strongly encourages you to become involved in service and leadership activities to support your long-term profession, academic, and personal goals. Therefore, to maintain good standing in the Honors Program and benefit from priority registration, students should:

Make satisfactory progress towards achieving Honors distinction at graduation through taking Honors courses, completing course upgrades, and working towards a thesis or capstone project.
Turn in the Honors Goal Setting Form each year. The form consists of three parts, each with its own deadline: Goals, Reflection, and Results. At the end of each year, students will use this form to update their CV. Students should submit each part of the form to their campus director by the following deadlines:
- Fall 2025: Monday, September 15
- Spring 2026: Monday, January 26
- Results: Wednesday, April 15

Good standing will be reviewed each semester. Students who are not in good standing will be removed from the program. Honors Program scholarships are also contingent upon maintaining good standing in the Honors Program; scholarship awardees who do not maintain good standing will also have their scholarship revoked. In addition to these minimum requirements for good standing, we highly encourage students to attend Honors Program meetings, Honors service and/or extracurricular activities.

Honors Advising

Honors Program students benefit from the additional academic mentorship of their campus Honors directors, who work closely with the advising office as well as academic advisors. All Honors students in good standing within the Honors Program are eligible to receive priority registration within their class cohort.

Campus Honors directors assist students in achieving their academic and personal goals by:

connecting students with campus resources and academic opportunities
helping students chart their path to complete honors requirements, including the thesis
supporting students in developing academic presentations for undergraduate student conferences
mentoring students through scholarship and graduate school applications

This direct mentorship from both academic faculty and Honors program directors encourages Honors students to gain confidence in making independent decisions that will help them achieve their academic goals and grow as community-conscious leaders.

Community & Institutional Service

Community Service

Part of being an Honors student is learning to be a responsible, community-conscious adult. One way the Honors Program encourages its members to develop is by getting them involved in community service.

As part of their community service activities, Honors students can:

tutor local public school students
host blood drives (in conjunction with LifeSouth)
make frequent visits to the local animal shelter
participate in Sweep the Hooch to clean up the Chattahoochee River
sponsor a Relay For Life team
support the Family Promise donation drive
help the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity
serve the elderly and impoverished through Action, Inc.
assist with academic and spelling competitions held on campus

Institutional Service

In addition to working in the surrounding community, Honors students have opportunities to serve their campus community by volunteering.

As part of their institutional service activities, honors students can:

help with student activities
plan and host academic conferences
represent the Honors Program at 91�� Open Houses
speak with students at NSO
assist new students with registration
manage various tasks that are crucial to running the Honors Program itself

Leadership Development

91�� is recognized as both The Military College of Georgia and a State Leadership Institution. Not only does the Honors Program require leadership activity for completion of the program at the bachelor’s level, but the program mission “emphasizes scholarship as a foundation for leadership and service.”

Here are just a few of the ways that you can develop as leaders during your time at 91��:

Serve as a formal Honors Program Mentor

This opportunity is open to you after completion of your freshman year. As mentors, you will advise and guide a first-year Honors Program student. For more information about this opportunity, please see your Honors Program Director.

Interdisciplinary Leadership Minor

Complete the Interdisciplinary Leadership Minor as part of the your academic Plan of Study.

91��'s L3 Summit

Participate in 91��’s L3 Summit, an annual four-day leadership camp held each May for college student leaders across the state.

Serve in the 91�� Corps of Cadets

Learn more about serving in the Corps of Cadets.

91��'s Student Conference on Leadership

Participate in 91��’s Student Conference on Leadership, a free one-day event offered by Student Involvement annually (usually in October) for all 91�� students.

President's Leadership Program

Apply for selection as a participant in the Building Outstanding Leadership Development (BOLD) Program. This program, which comes with a scholarship for those selected, is available to entering associate’s level students at 91��.