The School of Business Administration Honors Program brings together academically committed students in the School of Business Administration who seek an especially challenging undergraduate experience.  School of Business Administration Scholars will participate in seminars with other honors students and will enjoy numerous benefits and opportunities.  BSAD Honors students will simultaneously be enrolled in the University of Vermont's Honors College, which commenced operations in the fall of 2004.  BSAD students will take special courses in the Honors College during their first and second years of study, along with other honors students from across the University.  During their junior year, BSAD Honors students will remain members of the Honors College, but will take honors coursework in the BSAD Honors Program.  They will complete their honors curriculum by completing a senior project/thesis in their chosen concentration area.

Honors students may choose to concentrate in Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Management, Marketing, Management Information Systems, and Production & Operations Management, or Self-Designed.

NOTE: These requirements are designed to provide the honors students and their BSAD advisors with general guidelines for the BSAD Honors Program. Certain BSAD concentrations may have slightly different and more specific program requirements. For example, see the requirements for the honors program in Management Information Systems (MIS) following the general requirements section below.

• Sophomore Year:
  • First semester: Meet with your BSAD advisor to plan a personalized honors program in Business.
  • Second semester: Take at least one BSAD Field courses normally reserved for BSAD juniors. These courses should reflect your potential concentration interests.
  • Declare a concentration area.
• Junior Year
  • First semester: Take 2 BSAD discipline courses within your concentration area. Also, take 1 BSAD Field course to compliment your concentration area.
  • Second semester: Take 2 BSAD discipline courses within your concentration area and 1 Field course to compliment your concentration.
  • Develop a proposal for a 6-credit, independent project or thesis with the guidance of a BSAD faculty member specializing in your area of concentration.
• Senior Year
  • Honors College students will perform their approved independent senior projects or thesis under the guidance of a faculty member.
  • Take the 5 remaining BSAD Field courses.

1. During your first semester of your sophomore year, meet with MIS faculty member(s) to plan and obtain approval for a personalized honors program in the theory and practice of MIS.
2. Take BSAD 141 in the second semester of your sophomore year.
3. During your junior year, take an accelerated technical core composed of 4 courses. Normally, these courses will include BSAD 143 (Systems Analysis & Design), BSAD 144 (Database Design & Administration), BSAD 146 (Networking), and BSAD 142 (Business Application Programming) but these can, with MIS honors advisor approval, vary depending on the honors student’s technical background.
4. Honors students will have a choice of two directions for their senior year:
   1. The first direction is for those interested in information management topics (e.g. project management, intellectual property rights, privacy issues, information policy, identity management, etc.)
   2. The second is for those interested in additional IT technical topics beyond the junior year courses.
   3. In addition, honors students have the choice of culminating their senior MIS experience with a thesis or a project.
      1. Honors students interested in a 6 credit senior thesis will work with an MIS faculty member to plan and execute this option.
      2. Under the direction of an MIS faculty member, those honors students interested in a project/directed study may take a 6 credit MIS consulting project that applies MIS theories to a real world organization.