Preparing the next generation of leaders to engage our complex and rapidly changing world

The Honors College welcomes new students with HonorsFIT!

Saturday, August 16, 2025 on the University campus

HonorsFIT
Students studying together

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Donor gifts are used to support our high-achieving, passionate, and driven students with travel and research, student scholarships, and curricular opportunities as well as contributing toward recruitment/retention initiatives.

Who we are

Mission statement

The mission of the Honors College is to build a community of students, faculty, staff, and external stakeholders and provide enriching educational experiences that exemplify a commitment to resilience, ingenuity, stewardship, and equity.

Vision statement

The University of Nevada, Reno Honors College will be nationally recognized as a progressive leader in transformational student development, knowledge-led creativity, and societal impact.

Values statements

Resilience refers to the ability to persevere in the face of challenges and adversity.

Ingenuity refers to the capacity to think creatively to solve problems and generate new knowledge.

Stewardship refers to the act of managing and developing a resource for which one has responsibility, including one's own talents and intelligence.

Equity refers to the practice of providing personalized resources and opportunities to every individual so that all may enjoy success.

News and events

Casey outside, smiling by a river.

Casey Varabkanich-Payne awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Master’s student explores the effects of hormone replacement therapy on pelvic development

Rebeca Reyes Diaz.

Honors College student Rebeca Reyes Diaz presents research on Rett Syndrome at Western Regional Honors Conference

Her research explores how RTT affects the enteric nervous system

A group of students smile together holding a certificate.

University of Nevada, Reno Honors students win inaugural Honors College Trivia Bowl

Students competed against their peers at UNLV

Our statement on racism

The Honors College denounces all forms of racism, hate and bias and considers them antithetical to the letter and spirit of our mission. In order for Resilience, Ingenuity, Stewardship and Equity to succeed as programmatic and societal cornerstones, systemic racism and discrimination must never be a part of the educational process and our environment. We pledge to support our honors community by creating processes and structures that dismantle biases and privilege created both prior to and during our students’ honors journey and we will collaborate aggressively with partners across campus and in our community that pledge devotion to a society that ensures the safety, productivity, and unrestricted growth of all its members. The greatest diversity of race, ethnicity, religion, origin, citizenship status, sexual identity, gender identity, political affiliation, economic status, veteran status and ability is essential to the success of a contemporary Honors College, and we will actively create experiences and support mechanisms that engender and maintain a community of inclusion and care.

Ready to join the Honors College?