Macaulay Honors College
Academics
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Macaulay Honors College Academics
Diverse: ideas, settings, learning environments, community and challenges.
Macaulay Honors students receive a uniquely broad, interdisciplinary undergraduate experience that’s customized for their interests and abilities. They earn a degree conferred jointly by Macaulay and their home campus.
Being part of CUNY’s widely diverse student community enriches our students, challenging them to experience rigorous coursework alongside non-Macaulay honors students, returning veterans, non-traditional students and many other different groups.
Diversity in the classroom has proven educational benefits and reflects Macaulay’s core value. It also prepares our students for collaborative professional settings and leadership roles.
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Macaulay Seminars
Macaulay Honors College students come together for special classroom experiences including four 3-credit seminar courses that they take over the course of their first and second years at Macaulay.
Upper Level Courses
Macaulay students take most of the courses related to their major at their CUNY home campus, including high-level and honors courses.
In addition, they take a set of four required seminar courses created just for them.
Technology and Innovation
We make technology a meaningful part of student learning, no matter what the subject. The result: students learn how to find (or create) and use digital tools to pursue any academic question and to make their ideas ready for the global stage.
Macaulay Majors
Macaulay scholars have graduated with degrees in over 450 different areas of concentration. Our students officially declare their major through their CUNY home campus, and available majors and minors are listed on the individual campus websites.
Macaulay Advisors on Campus
There are Macaulay advisors on every one of our eight CUNY campuses. Each one supports the unique needs of high achieving students with academic issues, campus life, and professional goals.
New Media and Digital Content Lab
The lab prepares students to innovate in the tech industry, developing skills in digital studio technologies, entrepreneurship, marketplace analysis, social media marketing and distribution.
Masters in Liberal Arts Pipeline Program – Apply Now!
Macaulay students who are in good standing and have interests in graduate study in the humanities and social sciences may, in their junior year, apply and be provisionally accepted to the CUNY Graduate Center’s M.A. in Liberal Studies (MALS) Program .
Course Focus: BioBlitz
Each year, the entire Macaulay Sophomore class collaborates to survey and catalog the plant and animal life in one of the city's natural environments.