Honors Program
Students who are selected to participate in Honors at OC are stretched and challenged by a streamlined, enriched core curriculum. Team-taught interdisciplinary seminars offer engaged, lively discussion, debate and analysis.
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13 National Merit Finalists
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30 Average ACT score
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100% Acceptance rate to law school for those who applied since 2012
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$1000 stipend for study abroad
Alumni Features
Parker LaMascus
Parker LaMascus ('18) graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, pursued his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and served Harvard University as a research assistant.
Hear what he has to say about his time at OC as an engineering and honors student.
Brooke Dobbins
Brooke Dobbins ('20) was a multitasking superstar in college. She was a Computer Science student, honors student, member of Iota Kappa Phi, a mentor to her peers and a Boeing intern. Watch the video to learn how OC equipped Brooke for her Boeing internship and her Computer Science career, while allowing her to pursue a social college experience!
Inayah Minniefield
Inayah Minniefield ('21) is an exceptional Nursing student and goes above and beyond what is expected of her.
She's a member of OC's Black Student Union, secretary for Tri Theta Doves, a member of the OC Honors program, she's on the cheer team AND she's senior nursing class secretary on top of her academic responsibilities.
Graduate School
Twenty Honors students graduated from OC and applied to graduate school in the 2017-2019 academic years. Just these twenty students generated acceptance offers and often substantial financial packages from these universities:
Dallas International University
New York University Steinhardt
Northeastern State University Occupational Therapy Master's Program
OC Honors
First Year Adventure - exclusively for freshman Honors students
Oklahoma sites serve as text for learning in First Year Adventure.
Learn music history at the OKC Philharmonic and study the Italian Renaissance at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa. Oklahoma City Museum of Art breathes life into Modernist movement art curriculum while you imagine the shock of Impressionism and post-Impressionism at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. At each stop on the adventure, students reflect on their own aspirations to complete an undergraduate degree and to take their places as Christian leaders. Weekly Symposiums fill out the Honors First Year Adventure, sometimes hosting speakers like Biblical scholar N.T. Wright, Civil Rights attorney Fred Gray, astronaut Douglas Wheelock and Christian author Lee Strobel.
We recommend applying for honors admission before December 31; waitlisting usually begins in January.
Apply for HonorsHonors House
Honors students have the opportunity to live in a community dedicated to equipping Christian students for the pursuit of academic excellence, integrating housing with academics by creating a learning-living environment.
Honors Advisory Council
Become a leader to enhance and advance the Honors Program student experience by organizing social events, coordinating service opportunities and representing the interests and needs of Honors students. Prepare your campaign for student elections held at the end of each academic year.
Honors Summer Academy
A week of college might just be the highlight of your summer break! High school freshmen, sophomores and juniors enroll in two classes to earn college credit, plus make lifelong friends. Now accepting applications for HSA 2021!
