If you are academically gifted, this invitation-only program offers you amazing opportunities for study, research, travel and realizing your full potential.

Guided by faculty members, you can learn how to do independent research--including how to apply for grants to support your project. You may even present your work at regional, national, and international conferences. Perhaps you will study gender influences on Tanzanian orphans, or musical references in Octavio Paz’s poems. Whatever it is, you’ll study and work in a world with other gifted scholars, from peers in your honors classes to renowned visiting scholars.

You’ll receive priority in study abroad programs, including being eligible for special scholarship aid. You’ll also be eligible for the honors program at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, recognized as one of the best universities in western Europe to study sciences. 

Many Nisbet Honors courses are interdisciplinary, too. Our honors seminars are taught by two faculty members from different fields, giving you insight into how different branches of learning collect and interpret evidence. But whether you study literature through the lens of human sexuality and biology or examine musicals for their psychological and political perspectives, this approach is collaborative, exciting, and great practice for graduate school. 

More than half of our Nisbet graduates go on to advanced study within two years of Converse. They’re accepted at places like Yale, Cornell and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Past grads have received a stipend at Princeton or a full scholarship at Georgetown. Of course, as you become friends with these women, through sponsored Nisbet events like advising luncheons or movie discussions, you won’t be surprised by their incredible successes. But you will be pleased with your own.

Contact the administrative assistant for the Nisbet Honors Program for more information.