A Brief Introduction to Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University:

Barrett students at Arizona State University are free to major in any field offered at any of the university’s campuses (Downtown, Polytechnic, Tempe, or West). Unique honors housing is available at all four sites including the new 130 million dollar state-of-the-art Barrett College. Motivated, high-achieving students apply to enroll in Barrett, the nation’s premier undergraduate honors college, for many reasons. As members of ASU they already enjoy the vast resources and opportunities that come with a university that resides in the fifth largest metropolitan area in the United States and boasts an enrollment of over 64,000 students studying in more than 277 fields of academic inquiry. Barrett takes that strong foundation and enhances the undergraduate environment in a number of ways.

Why Barrett?

Our students are members of a small community of scholars who benefit from the personalized attention, dedication and access to our deans, roughly twenty-five faculty fellows and approximately twenty-five staff who care about them as individuals. In addition to these full-time honors college personnel there are over 1400 university faculty who teach and mentor Barrett students across all four ASU campuses. Barrett students enjoy unique living and learning accommodations including the new 130-million dollar honors complex representing the country’s first comprehensive four-year residential honors college campus in a top-tier Research 1 university. Barrett students participate in an advanced curriculum taught by the core faculty of Honors Fellows. These HON courses are small, intellectually stimulating, and include the signature first-year course, The Human Event, along with a diverse offering of upper division seminar classes. Generally, the Barrett academic requirements constitute 36 of the 120 credits required for a bachelor’s degree from the university. Outside of the classroom, Barrett students are encouraged and provided with the means to engage in undergraduate research, unique internships, summer study abroad, and service in the community.

After Graduation:

Barrett graduates find themselves specially prepared for a wide variety of future pursuits. ASU leads the nation among public universities and often ranks in the top ten of all institutions in the number of nationally-competed fellowships won by students thanks to the Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement (LWFONSA), which helps students secure awards such as the Truman, Rhodes, Marshall, Udall, Goldwater, NSEP and Fulbright scholarships. The majority of these students are from Barrett. Our students attend the best graduate and professional schools in the nation given the outstanding relationships they form with faculty, often national experts, in their field of study.

Thank you for your interest in Barrett, The Honors College at ASU. Please explore our website to more fully understand the rich array of resources we offer. We are confident that you will appreciate the remarkably unique educational environment provided to our students.