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The Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
of Florida Atlantic University, which opened
in the Fall of 1999, is the first public
honors institution to be built from the
ground up in the United States.
Its intellectual
foundation is a belief in liberal arts
education as the best preparation for a
full and productive life.
As a public institution, we open our doors
to those seeking a challenging, yet affordable,
learning experience equal to that of the
most selective colleges and universities.
With one faculty for every twelve students,
classes are small, and learning is pursued
in formal and informal settings. Students
have the opportunity to work on research
projects one-on-one with outstanding faculty
holding Ph.D.'s from leading universities.
Student/faculty collaborations have resulted
in publications
in scholarly journals and our graduates have gone on to some of the top graduate and professional programs in the country.
A number of universities offer honors
programs or honors colleges. But
unlike the
honors
options at almost all of these other universities,
at the Wilkes Honors College you are able to take all your
classes within the Honors College,
and your professors are faculty whose full-time appointments are to the Honors College: we provide an all-honors education
at an all-honors college.
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