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.
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.
Set Yourself Apart
Honors education in The Farmer School of Business is structured to enhance the experience of students in the Honors College through a combination of curricular and co-curricular opportunities. Students must accrue 8 honors experiences total in their time at Miami.
All students accepted into the Honors College are eligible to enroll in honors-only sections of core business courses. Though we offer honors sections for every core business course, we do not expect students to enroll in all of them. In their time at Miami, students are automatically enrolled in the Honors section of the First-Year Integrated Core during their first year. After this, they must enroll in a minimum of three honors sections of core business courses.
Complementing this, students can seek co-curricular activities to enrich their business acumen. These can include participation in Miami’s Undergraduate Associate Program and the Undergraduate Research Forum. It can also include leadership in a student business organization or completing a study abroad program. Students can pursue up to 2 co-curricular activities as honors experiences.
The honors experience culminates in students’ senior year with an Honors Senior Project regarding a summer internship, capstone course, or research project. This senior project accounts for 2 honors experiences.
Admission and Program Information
Benefits of Honors Education at Farmer
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 Taylor
Director - Business Honors Program
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513-529-1222
taylorje@miamioh.edu
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