Barrett, The Honors College creates a foundational educational experience that encourages learners of high potential to respond to the challenges of principled leadership through independent and collaborative scholarly and creative activities; community and civic engagement; and transformative study and research, travel and service opportunities.

At Barrett, curious, motivated students learn from one another in an inclusive, supportive environment that rewards exploration and encourages responsibility and care for self and others. Barrett provides meaningful academic and cocurricular opportunities to support the core values of the college, which emphasize:

• agency and leadership
• belonging and community
• courage and curiosity

Barrett students enjoy the extensive opportunities afforded to them through Arizona State University, a premier Research I university while also being members of a nationally recognized top honors college. Barrett encourages students to dive deeper into their interests through faculty mentorship, access to distinct research and internship opportunities, specialized projects in classes, domestic and international travel programs, cocurricular opportunities, and student-led engagement activities.

While pursuing the same 120 college credit degree plan required for ASU students, Barrett students earn a portion of their undergraduate credits as honors credits. Students can earn honors credits in a variety of ways, including major-specific classes and honors special topics courses and honors internships, research and travel programs. All students in Barrett complete an undergraduate thesis project. The honors thesis is the culmination of Barrett students' honors experience and allows them to execute and present an intellectually rigorous project in their chosen field of study.

The residential and academic community of Barrett brings honors students together at each campus through shared community spaces, special events and student organizations right where they live. Barrett Online students are also included in community events and virtual engagement opportunities. Barrett students are supported by 48 full-time honors faculty, 70 full-time staff members, the dean and vice dean of the college and associate deans at Barrett Downtown Phoenix, Polytechnic and West Valley campuses.

With a focus on excellence beyond their college experience, Barrett students have the opportunity to take advantage of the Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarships Advisement, which serves all of ASU and is located in Barrett College Honors Hall on ASU's Tempe campus. There, Barrett faculty and staff mentor students as they apply for national and international fellowships. Each year, ASU students are selected for prestigious recognition, awards and programs, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, Goldwater Scholarship, Boren Awards for International Study, and the Killam Fellowships Program. ASU students also have been recipients of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and they have received fellowship awards from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, placing ASU among the nation's top producers of fellowship winners.