Celebrate Academic Excellence
Honors Awarded
Achieve your highest potential.
Join us in celebrating the exceptional accomplishments of our students whose commitment to excellence serves as an inspiration to us all.
Their success attests to the power of curiosity and the rewards of diligence. Each name listed on the President's List and Dean's List represents a story of personal growth, intellectual enlightenment and the triumph of hard work.
President’s List
In recognition of highest academic achievement, the President’s List is announced each semester. The President’s List is composed of students with a grade point average of 3.90 or better, provided no grade is below a ”C” and provided the student carried at least 12 hours of letter-graded courses. Students with incomplete grade(s) at the end of the semester are not eligible for the President’s List.
Dean’s List
In recognition of high academic achievement, a Dean’s List is announced each semester. The Dean’s List is composed of students with a grade point average of 3.50 to 3.89, provided no grade is below a ”C” and the student carried at least 12 hours of letter-graded courses. Students with incomplete grade(s) at the end of the semester are not eligible for the Dean’s List.
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News & Events
Across ceremonies held in Hickory, Asheville and Columbia on May 7-9, LR celebrated 578 undergraduate and graduate students earning their degrees and stepping into their next chapters as alumni.
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SOURCE 2026 highlighted student excellence across a range of disciplines, featuring Honors Thesis Competition winners and the inaugural Bears Engage awards.
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