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Business Honors Program

Miami University, the Farmer School of Business, and the Honors College provide an environment that accomplishes two goals: It offers the structure necessary to facilitate the transition from high school to college, and it gives students the freedom to begin to explore their academic interests. Business Honors offers a flexible and welcoming atmosphere to students, equipping them with the knowledge and skills for life beyond college.

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Set Yourself Apart

The Farmer School of Business Honors Program is designed to complement the Honors College and includes both curricular and co-curricular experiences. Curricular experiences are incorporated throughout our four-year academic program and include required and elective courses. Co-curricular experiences follow a similar timeline and feature numerous opportunities such as participating in both the University's Undergraduate Associate Program and the University's Undergraduate Research Forum

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Why Choose Business Honors

Sense of Community

Your Honors cohort stays together all four years, helping you forge strong friendships, work effectively in teams, and develop a cohesive, shared academic experience.

Smaller Classes

As a Business Honors student, you will enjoy lively interaction in small classes. The average size of honors classes is 35 students.

Exceptional Curriculum

Honors classes will be taught by some of the school's finest faculty members.

Innovative, Specialized Courses

The school often chooses to pilot new approaches or new courses with its Honors students.

Accelerated, Integrative Core Courses

You'll find that the Honors instructional approach helps you make interdisciplinary connections and think flexibly.

Professional Development

Additional exposure to outside speakers, who welcome the opportunity to speak informally in an Honors setting.

Independent Research Projects

The opportunity to research an area of interest in business, and do a project or thesis.

Special Recognition at Graduation

Honors students are recognized at the Farmer School's divisional commencement.

 

Mentorship Program

Benefit from a mentorship with Farmer School of Business faculty, upper-class students, and alumni.

Goals of the Program

The Farmer School Honors Program is both challenging and rewarding. Specific goals of the program include:

  • Maintain our commitment to having high caliber students in the Farmer School of Business.
  • Enhance and complement the education for our brightest and most motivated incoming students.
  • Allow for more intellectual interaction between student and faculty.
  • Provide a premier program that complements and interfaces with the Honors College and with FSB Departmental Honors.
  • Continue to fuel the advanced intellectual climate/atmosphere in the Farmer School.
  • Use the program as laboratory for exciting new techniques/ideas that can then be applied to the regular undergraduate program.
  • Provide faculty the opportunity to develop and engage in rigorous, intellectually creative, and innovative pedagogy.
  • Provide an integrative experience for students and faculty.
  • Share excitement about research with a group of bright/intellectually curious/articulate students.
  • Provide students with additional skills for and the opportunity to do research.
  • Provide students a better understanding of what faculty do so that they are better informed about their future career choices.

    Business Honors students represent some of the most innovative, intelligent, and driven people I have ever met. We are not passive learners; our learning experience is defined by discussion and debate amongst each other. Above all else stands our unique friendship-a bond formed by frequent and stimulating interaction which, to this day, grows ever stronger.

    Kurtis Ericson '06, Deloitte Consulting

    The students in your Business Honors cohort form the foundation of your professional network. As a result of the program, you have studied with students from throughout one of the most highly ranked business schools in the country. You know these students very well and can reach out to them for advice as you begin your career.

    Justine Lelchuk '06, Harvard Business School '11

Meet Our Director

jan taylorJan Taylor
Director - Business Honors Program
3103 FSB
513-529-1222
taylorje@miamioh.edu

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