Honors Program

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Learn, Serve, and Lead

The Elizabethtown College Honors Program is supported through an endowed gift from The Hershey Company. We are grateful and honored to have the help of The Hershey Company to ensure our outstanding students experience the program and thrive in the world.

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Welcome to the Honors Program at Elizabethtown College!

The Elizabethtown College Honors Program offers a close-knit community of well-rounded individuals from diverse backgrounds who not only embrace academic excellence and intellectual rigor, but who also have the desire to engage their local, national, and international communities and demonstrate leadership initiative. Our program's motto is Learn, Serve, and Lead!

Connect with the Honors Program through our Honors Report Newsletters:

Meet our Current Students & Alumni

Read below testimonials from our current students and alumni of the Honors Program.

Jordyn Dutko '26

The Honors Program is such a valuable asset to my education here at Elizabethtown College. It has provided me with incredible experiences—particularly the opportunity to work alongside Ambassador John B. Craig on foreign policy projects—that have allowed me to develop my leadership skills, along with apply knowledge from my history and political science majors in meaningful and practical ways. As not only an Honors student, but also a student athlete and Peace and Global Scholar, I believe that the Program gives me the tools to succeed and strive for excellence over the course of my collegiate career and beyond, and I am so grateful to be a part of this extraordinary group of students and faculty!

John Talbott '22

I am very grateful to Dr. MacKay for his continued mentorship and dedication, especially in my first few semesters when I was very new to research, as well as Dr. Rozners and his research group. The entire Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Etown has and continues to be extremely supportive of all student research projects. I fully believe I would not have been able to achieve these accomplishments at a different university, where I would not have received one-on-one training with professors to develop my skills as a chemist, especially not as a first-year student. The Office of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellows along with the SCARP program are unique aspects of Elizabethtown College that encourage and aid in success.

William Paterson '21

I have been fortunate enough to take honors courses while also taking on multiple professional internships with different companies. Throughout my college career, I have maintained a strong network of connections, and the Honors Program is one place where I have been able to build such connections. As a firm believer in the value of acquiring experience early in your college career, I believe the more experience one acquires, the more they understand about the industry they want to go into for a career. They are able to apply the knowledge they get to any future situation. I am so thankful for all the opportunities Elizabethtown College has given me over the years. Everyone has been so supportive in helping me build me career’s foundation.

Honors Program Benefits, Opportunities, & Activities

Being a member of the Honors Program at Etown offers exclusive access to some fantastic opportunities. Honors students benefit from smaller class sizes, greater opportunities to interact with faculty, Honors Academic Grant funds, access to our Honors Center with private study carrels, Honors housing in the Honors Living Learning Community (LLC), and priority registration throughout their undergraduate careers.

Additionally, there are activities and events reserved just for Honors students at Etown to help make their experience truly remarkable such as our annual Honors Outdoor Orientation Trek (HOOT) for incoming Honors students, our Yuletide Festival at the end of the fall semester, our Senior Celebration at the end of the spring semester, Homecoming gatherings, and national and regional conferences hosted through the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Conference held in major cities around the country, as well as the Northeast Regional Collegiate Honors Council (NRHC) Conference. Many social events, such as pumpkin painting, succulant planting, and others events for the Honors students are organized by the student-run Honors Council.