THE HONORS CAROLINA DIFFERENCE
Honors Carolina is UNC’s premier academic program for high-achieving, intellectually curious students. We offer program participants a guided journey toward a successful career and a purposeful life.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: GREAT FOR STUDENTS, GREAT FOR YOU!
Members of Honors Carolina complete a two-course sequence – College, Careers, and Honors Carolina Life – that encourages both academic and career exploration.
Led by an expert team of Honors Carolina Career Coaches, our students:
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complete strength and personality assessments to align their talents with employment opportunities
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develop critical thinking and problem solving skills
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master effective communication strategies
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collaborate and lead team projects
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engage with alumni and friends of Honors Carolina to build and broaden their professional networks
If you’re an employer looking to recruit exceptional talent for projects, internships, and jobs, you can target Honors Carolina students by posting your opportunities here. A step-by-step instruction guide will get you started in minutes!
WHAT EMPLOYERS ARE SAYING
AMAZING TALENT + YOUR OPPORTUNITIES
Carolina people helping Carolina people.
HOW IT WORKS
THE TALENT JOURNEY
Anna
1st Year
Anna was one of over 45,000 students applying to UNC each year, and about 10% (roughly 4,500) will be admitted. Honors Carolina selects approximately 10% (roughly 450) of those UNC 1st year students into the prestigious Honors Carolina program. Anna will complete a more rigorous academic journey with a minimum of 24 credits of honors level classes, yet it’s the additional application of our Come Here. Go Anywhere. initiative that really differentiates our students.
As a 1st year student Anna will complete a 14-week course designed to maximize her college experience — her additional training spans maximizing her strengths, bias exploration, diversity engagement, identifying mentors, overcoming fears, learning to fail, and finding her personal wellness foundation — and she’ll do this work with other students, as well as 1:1 with an Honors Carolina coach.
As a 2nd year student Anna will work the plan she developed with her coach while completing an additional course focusing on critical thinking skills, alignment of her strengths, passion and academic major, and engage hypothetical career projects that let her explore areas of interest within real opportunities. This often leads to an internship, study abroad, or academic research.
As a 3rd and 4th year student Anna will refine her plan, aligning her definition of a successful career and a purposeful life through projects, research, internships and other opportunities that help her discover the career she’d most like to engage upon graduation.
