Honors Program

Saunders College students in the Honors Program fulfill the same requirements and are eligible for the same opportunities - including Honors courses, Honors options (add-ons to standard courses), research, and travel - as all RIT Honors Program students.

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Saunders Honors students collaborate with Honors students from the Kate Gleason College of Engineering in an open-minded, three-course seminar sequence: "Product and Service Innovation for a Global Economy." Over three semesters, these one-credit seminars help you appreciate the entire product and service development cycle, from imaginative concept to tangible realization. Engineering and business faculty, alongside local business leaders, actively address how ideas are conceived, refined, produced, and the unique challenges of developing and marketing for a global marketplace.

Honors Program students from Saunders College of Business take active business trips to domestic and international companies across diverse industries. You'll see first-hand how companies of all sizes uniquely address product and service development for domestic and global marketplaces. Recent trips visited Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Silicon Valley, Toronto, and Dubai included visits to Amazon, Bloomberg, Boeing, EY, the Federal Reserve Bank, Google, IDEO, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Alumni events, organized with these trips, also provide opportunities to interact with a wide array of business professionals, expanding your professional network.

RIT Honors Program students may complete a research experience. While not all research may be global in nature, Saunders College students in the program can apply for grants that will fund projects that have a significant global aspect and/or are completed abroad.

RIT has one Honors Program at the university and across all of its colleges, including Saunders College of Business. While some Saunders College students (less than 1% of all RIT first-year applicants) are invited to join the Honors Program at the time they apply for admission, Saunders College also encourages and accepts internal admit students for admission to the Honors Program during a special Honors Program application process each January. Saunders College freshmen and sophomores are eligible to apply for late-entry at this time and are considered based on their academic results and their application materials.

RIT Honors students applying to Saunders College of Business graduate programs can now qualify for a 50% scholarship and apply for a GMAT/GRE waiver. This applies to all applicants who successfully complete the requirements of the RIT Honors Program upon certification and are accepted into Saunders College.

Next steps? If you are interested in learning more about the scholarship and GMAT/GRE waiver incentives for RIT Honors students, set up an appointment by emailing gradbus@saunders.rit.edu, or attend a Graduate Information Session.