Barrett, The Honors College creates a foundational educational experience that encourages learners of high potential to respond to the challenges of principled leadership through independent and collaborative scholarly and creative activities; community and civic engagement; and transformative travel, study and research opportunities.

At Barrett, curious, motivated students learn from one another in an inclusive, supportive environment that rewards exploration and encourages responsibility and care for self and others. Barrett values courage and curiosity, belonging and community, and agency and leadership, and it provides meaningful academic and cocurricular opportunities to support these principles for students.

Barrett students enjoy the opportunities afforded to them through Arizona State University, a premier Research I university with considerable resources in the sheer number and variety of degree programs. These students take part in the nation's top honors college with benefits more typical of a small, private college. Students leverage their status in honors to dive deeper into their interests through faculty mentorship, access to unique research and internship opportunities, specialized projects in classes, domestic and international travel programs, cocurricular opportunities, and student-led engagement activities.

While pursuing the same 120 college credit degree plan required for ASU students, Barrett students earn a portion of their undergraduate credits as honors credits. There are a variety of ways to earn honors credits, including major-specific classes and honors special topics courses, honors internships, research, and travel programs. All students in Barrett complete an undergraduate thesis project. The honors thesis is the culmination of Barrett students' honors experience and their entire undergraduate education.

The residential and academic community of Barrett allows students to feel at home at ASU. Through the comprehensive Barrett residential communities at each campus, honors students enjoy community spaces, special events and student organizations right where they live. Barrett Online students are also included in community events and special virtual engagement opportunities. All Barrett students are supported by more than 55 full-time honors professors, 70 full-time staff members, the dean and vice dean of the college and associate deans at Barrett Downtown, Polytechnic and West Valley campuses.

With a focus on excellence beyond their college experience, Barrett students have the opportunity to take advantage of the Lorraine Frank Office of National Scholarship and Advisement, which serves all of ASU and is located in the Barrett Complex on the ASU Tempe campus. There, Barrett faculty and staff mentor students as they apply for national and international fellowships. Each year, ASU students are selected for prestigious recognitions, awards and programs, including the Rhodes Scholarship, Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, Goldwater Scholarship, Boren Awards for International Study and the Killam Fellowships Program. ASU students also have been recipients of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and they have received fellowship awards from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, placing ASU among the nation's top producers of fellowship winners.