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Scholars Program

The Scholars Program, established in 1960, is the oldest honors program in the City University of New York and has been a model for similar programs throughout the nation. An interdisciplinary liberal arts program, the Scholars Program offers honors sections of Core Studies courses, interdisciplinary seminars, and guided research on a senior thesis.

Distinguished by their strong writing ability Scholars Program graduates are admitted to Ph.D. programs in diverse disciplines including psychology, anthropology, mathematics, biology, chemistry, art, english, history and philosophy at such universities as Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, and New York University. Graduates of the Scholars Program enter such fields as law, medicine, teaching, speech-language pathology, public health, radio, television and film producing, and biochemistry.

Limited to one hundred students, the Scholars Program offers a community much like a small residential college. Scholars students take advantage of individual advising, faculty mentoring and early registration. In the commons they find study facilities, computer access, and are informed on academic scholarship, internships, career opportunities, and, above all, intellectual stimulation among other talented students like themselves. Scholars Program students admitted as incoming freshmen receive a Brooklyn College Foundation Presidential Scholarship that provides instate tuition for four years of undergraduate study. The Scholar’s Program is the only honors program open to matriculated freshmen and sophomores (up to 45 credits) and transfer students.