LSU Honors College

The Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College at Louisiana State University was founded in 1992 and is a vibrant, diverse, and prestigious academic community located at the heart of LSU. The Ogden Honors College typically admits the top 10% of incoming LSU freshmen, and provides its students with a curriculum of rigorous seminar classes, mentoring relationships with top LSU faculty, and opportunities for undergraduate research, culminating in the Honors Thesis. Its focus on community service, study abroad, internships and independent research helps today’s high-achieving students become tomorrow’s leaders. The Ogden Honors College is led by Dean Dr. Jonathan Earle, who joined the University in 2014. Since 2005, Ogden Honors students have been awarded with more than 90 prestigious national and international fellowships, including 16 Goldwater Scholarships, 8 Truman Scholarships, 18 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, 5 Critical Language Scholarships, and 3 Udall Scholarships. In December of 2014, LSU announced that they had received a $12 million investment from Roger Ogden, notable alumnus and philanthropist, the largest unrestricted endowed gift in LSU history. Shortly after, the LSU Board of Supervisors approved the renaming of the college to be the "Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College" in honor of Ogden's late father and son.

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Honors College

An honors college, or in a more limited form, honors program, is an educational experience for high-achieving students that is set apart from the majority of the educational institution's coursework.

Compared to the broader university community, honors colleges often have smaller classes, of students with high standardized test scores or grades. Honors programs are smaller and less formal than honors colleges, and may not include additional resources (such as residences or academic buildings) afforded to honors colleges.