Fritz Honors College

The Fritz Honors College is a collaborative and inclusive community of motivated and high-potential learners and doers pursuing intellectual, personal and professional development at the highest possible levels.

True honors education is student-centered and largely student-directed. Since LR’s Fritz Honors College is new, you have the extraordinary chance to help build a unique and distinctive honors college. You'll collaborate with fellow honors college students, professors and Jeff Vahlbusch, Ph.D., dean of the Fritz Honors College, to create your own outstanding future and that of your colleagues. Learn to lead transformative change!

Opportunities

The Fritz Honors College strives to offer:

  • Interdisciplinary honors courses
  • A vibrant intellectual and social community
  • Opportunities for research, scholarship and creative activity
  • Close collaboration with fellow students and faculty members
  • Opportunities for civic engagement, service and leadership
  • Social events and professional development activities
  • Great mentoring and advising, and
  • Unconditional support — during your time at LR and after you graduate
     

Apply

We invite and encourage all highly motivated, high-potential and/or high-achieving students—both high-school seniors and transfer students—to apply to join the Fritz Honors College. We aim to create a world-class honors college and honors experience for students from all majors, backgrounds, schools and institutions, from standout International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement programs to high schools with standard curricula and offerings.

  • Incoming Student Application Process
    • Please submit a completed application for admission and a completed “Scholarship Programs and Fritz Honors College" application via your admission portal by December 15.
       
  • Applicant Information
    • In keeping with best practices of honors education nationally and internationally, the Fritz Honors College’s approach to admission is inclusive, holistic and supportive. We read every word of your application materials, and our decisions don’t privilege national test scores (ACT, SAT), class rank or GPA.
    • We are looking for motivated students eager to pursue and contribute to world-class educational opportunities and a thriving honors college community.
    • If we invite you to join the Fritz Honors College starting in the fall, wonderful: we will celebrate! And if, after reading your application, we want you to complete a semester of courses at Lenoir-Rhyne and then reapply to the Fritz Honors College for the following semester, Dean Jeff Vahlbusch will send you an email invitation to meet with him once you arrive on campus in early fall to help you prepare your application.

Scholarship Opportunities

All incoming students admitted to the Fritz Honors College are considered for scholarships from the Fritz Honors College. Students who receive these awards typically have at least a 3.0 GPA and are able to explain in detail why they wish to pursue an honors education at LR.

  • The Presidential Scholarship

    All high-achieving, highly motivated students should also apply for LR’s prestigious Presidential Scholarship, which offers automatic admission to the Fritz Honors College and covers the full cost of tuition at Lenoir-Rhyne for eight regular semesters. All recipients are required to live on campus.

    Apply for the Presidential Scholarship by submitting the “Scholarship Programs and Fritz Honors College Application” via your admission portal. All application materials are due by December 15.

  • Fritz Honors College Scholarship

    Many applicants invited to join the Fritz Honors College will also be awarded a Fritz Honors College Scholarship valued at $2,000 per year.

    Apply by submitting the “Scholarship Programs and Fritz Honors College Application” via your admission portal. All application materials are due by December 15.