Program Benefits

Educational Advantages
Honors classes include only Virginia Intermont College's strongest students. Prospective Honors students can expect to be challenged and inspired by their fellow classmates to excel academically. Honors students also enjoy a small student to instructor ratio, typically classes range between ten and fifteen students.

Trips
The honors program offers trips for educational, cultural and social purposes. These trips include visits to regional sites as well as at least one trip to a distant city. In the future, the Honors program hopes to take a trip abroad. All trips are offered on a voluntary basis.

Honors Center
The suite of rooms that comprise the Honors Center give students their own place to study, read, have discussions, use computers, as well as spend social time toghther. The Honors Center is located in the Humanities building and includes a seminar/classroom, computer lab, study area, Honors faculty offices, and a kitchenette.

Financial Assistance
All honors students will receive a scholarship that covers up to one half their tuition depending on grade point average and scores on standardized tests. Honors students are also eligible for other types of financial aid.

Housing
Housing dedicated just for first-year Honors students is provided to encourage group cohesion and to facilitate extra- and co-curricular programming. Campus residence is required for Honors Program students.

Priority Registration
Honors students will be given priority registration privileges starting the second semester of their freshman year.

Honors Graduation
Each Honors graduate is recognized at graduation, and Honors Graduate is noted on the diploma.