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By the Numbers

100% Experiential Education Participation

96% First-Year Retention Rate

90% Employment or Graduate/Professional School

Mission in Action

Nedra McLain and Emily

Explore Your Purpose

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

Savannah King with her Honors Thesis Showcase poster

Develop Intellectually

Honors at Kentucky has a long and proud history, dating back to 1959, and thousands of students have passed through our program, exploring themselves and the boundaries of thought with outstanding faculty.

Singletary Scholar speaking at the Leadership Conference

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.

The Honors classes I took my freshman year exposed me to ideas that I would not have otherwise thought deeply about. The topics we discussed have allowed me to engage with current events and the social sciences more than I would have been able to otherwise.

Asa O'Neal
Asa O'Neal '25
NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, Astronaut Scholar
Asa O'Neal
Honors students wearing Honors medallions at the Honors Medal Ceremony

Why Honors?

Honors Residential Experience Peer Mentors hosted Cookies and Cocoa event

Honors Residential Experience

Tamika Tompoulidis with student during EXPO

Center for Personal Development

Coliseum with Honors students

Internship, Research, Education Abroad, Service-Learning Opportunities

Dr. Ryan Voogt with Honors students in HON 310

Dedicated Honors Faculty

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News and Events

Lewis Honors College celebrates nearly 400 graduates at Medal Ceremony

May 8, 2026

The University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College celebrated 386 seniors during its annual Medal Ceremony held on Thursday, May 7, at the Historic Memorial Coliseum. UK Provost Robert DiPaola, M.D., Interim Dean Laura Bryan, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Pearl James, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Student Engagement Sally Foster, and Nomenclator Carl Nathe served as the platform party.

2 UK engineering graduates awarded Defense Department SMART Scholarships

By Tom Musgrave
 Jun 23, 2026
Student News

Recent University of Kentucky engineering graduates Grant Fischer (Lewis Honors College) and Spencer Goode-Kulchar were awarded U.S. Defense Department SMART Scholarships.

New dean of UK Lewis Honors College announced

By Johnson Lam
 Jun 5, 2026

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 5, 2026) — After a comprehensive national search, James Buss, Ph.D., has been selected as the next dean of the University of Kentucky’s Lewis Honors College.

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Lewis Launch Virtual Meetup

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Lewis Launch Virtual Meetup

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Lewis Honors College
University of Kentucky
Lewis Hall, 420 Hilltop Avenue
Lexington, KY 40526
Phone: 859-257-3111

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