Macaulay Honors College

Brooklyn College

At Brooklyn College, University Scholars join the Honors Academy, a family of students in eight honors programs that share a student commons room, study space, and faculty offices. Scholars study, work, and play on Brooklyn’s beautifully landscaped 26-acre campus. The newly renovated library is a hub of student life, as is the popular Library Café, open 24 hours, seven days a week. Located in the heart of the borough, the campus brings together a student body as diverse as Brooklyn itself. In addition to academic pursuits, they join in a broad array of extra- curricular activities, clubs, organizations, and cultural events.

Known for its commitment to the liberal arts, Brooklyn College offers more than one hundred degree programs and concentrations in a wide range of fields. Attesting to its strength in the creative and performing arts, the College has its own Conservatory of Music, along with outstanding departments in Art and Theater. Students interested in media-related fields can major in Journalism, Television and Radio, or Film.

Other popular majors at the College include Business, Psychology, Computer and Information Science (CIS), and Education. The brand new Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA) confirms Brooklyn’s leadership in the field. The BBA includes an international business option that may be of special interest to Macaulay Honors students. On another front, the development of a collaboration on Robotics between Psychology and CIS faculty promises to give advanced students plenty of challenges in the coming years. Undergraduates in Brooklyn’s honors programs take advantage of the Tow and Furman grants funding study or research abroad for a summer or even an entire semester. The College offers programs in China, England, France, India, Israel, and Peru, as well as regularly sending students to many other destinations. University Scholars interested in research participate in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and/or the Brooklyn Honors Academy Research Colloquium, both of which are designed to foster original scholarship in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Applicants to Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College may also apply to Brooklyn’s acclaimed and highly competitive BA/MD program, an 8-year joint program with SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.