Honors College Professional Experience Grants
Your Honors experience can take you beyond the classroom. Professional Experience Grants provide funding to help Honors College students pursue meaningful experiences that support their academic, creative and professional goals.
Use a grant to explore the world through an extended study abroad experience, gain valuable career skills through a professional internship, explore your curiosity and creativity through a visual project or performance, conduct research with a faculty mentor, develop a product prototype or lay the foundation for an entrepreneurial project. Whether you want to deepen your experience in your major or explore a distinctive side project that connects you with new disciplines and experiences, a Professional Experience Grant can help you turn your ideas into meaningful experience.
What Can I Do with a Professional Experience Grant?
Explore the opportunities below to see how a Professional Experience Grant could support your goals. Award amounts vary based on the type and scope of the experience, with a maximum award value of $3,000.
Research & Creative Projects
Work alongside faculty mentors or pursue entrepreneurial, creative and artistic projects.
Award: $1,500
Internships & Work-Based Experiences
Gain hands-on professional experience through internships, student teaching, and clinical placements.
Award: $1,000–$2,000
Study Abroad
Explore the world through faculty-led or semester-long international experiences.
Award: Up to $3,000
Service Learning
Engage with communities through approved domestic or international service-learning opportunities.
Award: Up to $2,000
Grant funds can help you cover the cost of travel and tuition for your semester abroad, materials for that bronze pour you’ve always wanted to cast, equipment or software for lab work, or living expenses during an internship.
Make the Most of Your Experience
Earn Honors Credit
If you are using your Professional Experience Grant to support work on a mentored research project, creative production or performance, or an internship, you can also earn Honors course credit.
Fulfill requirements for the Certificate in Honors Individualized Studies by simultaneously enrolling in one of the following Honors courses. Each can be scaled to the scope of your project, to give you the credit hours you need:
- HON 494: Undergraduate Research
- HON 497: Independent Study
- HON 469: Internship
Share Your Work
Students who receive a Professional Experience Grant for mentored research, creative work, or product and entrepreneurial projects will present their work at the annual Honors College Showcase in the Andrew Conteh Student Academic Conference during the spring semester of the year they complete their projects.
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Questions? We're Here to Help.
Have questions about Professional Experience Grants, eligibility, the application process, or what types of experiences may qualify? The Honors College is here to help you plan your next step.