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Article: There's power in honor: honors programs and colleges are proliferating for good reason: They're benefiting students and IHE. (Marketing).
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- University Business
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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Currently, there are 3,600 colleges and universities in the United States. At last count, approximately 1,400 of them have honors programs and colleges. This finding brings to light three factors that may surprise you:
First, many of the colleges and universities with honors programs are regional publics or solid second- and third-tier privates. In other words, you don't have to be an Ivy League wanna-be or flagship multiversity to have an honors college. Second, many of these honors colleges/programs--and the students they serve--are doing quite well. Their enrollments are increasing. And third, while the academic motivation for an honors college is obvious, you ...