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By the Numbers

100% Experiential Education Participation

98% First-Year Retention Rate

91% Employment or Graduate/Professional School

Mission in Action

Explore Your Purpose

Honors advisors and the Center for Personal Development counselors partner with students in their exploration of purpose to cultivate self-awareness, well-being, and career readiness.

Develop Intellectually

Honors at Kentucky has a long and proud history, dating back to 1958, and thousands of students have passed through our program, exploring themselves and the boundaries of thought with outstanding faculty.

Lead With Integrity

Providing leadership development opportunities enables students to fulfill their experiential credit while bolstering lifelong skills to apply as a graduate student or employee.

Participating in Honors throughout my undergraduate career has helped me maintain a holistic education. I am interested in science and medicine in my career and having Honors classes that address the role of the humanities in these fields has really broadened my perspective.

Kayli Bolton '23
Kayli Bolton '23
Gates Cambridge Scholar
Kayli Bolton '23

News and Events

Call for submissions for The Scratch Post, an undergraduate arts and literature journal

University of Kentucky undergraduate students are invited to submit creative writing, visual art or graphic narratives for the inaugural issue of The Scratch Post, to be published in Spring 2025.

Lewis Honors College Welcomes Award-Winning Author Jason De Léon and his interactive art exhibit

Faculty at the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College, the College of Arts & Sciences, and the W. S. Webb Museum of Anthropology are hosting an interactive art installation, Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94), on Tuesday, Feb. 11, and Thursday, Feb. 13.  

Applications for prestigious sustainability research award now open

Applications for the Crabtree-Cornell Award for Research in Sustainability and the Environment are open.

Panel Featuring: Current Medical School Students

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Lewis Honors College, U133

Donuts with the Dean

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Lewis Scholars Lounge

Accounting Internship & Career Fair

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Gatton B&E Atrium

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