Cook College offers two collegewide honors programs:

1. The Cook College General Honors Program is a four-year program for which university Merit Scholars and selected high school seniors (typically in the top 10 percent of their graduating class with combined SAT scores of 1260 or better) who apply to Cook College prior to the application deadline are invited to compete. Students who join the program are awarded supplementary merit scholarships. There are approximately eighty students in the program.

2. The George H. Cook Scholars Program is Cook College`s senior honors thesis program. Students in the top 15 percent of their class at the end of the fall term of the junior year are automatically invited to participate, but any Cook College junior who is nominated by a faculty member may join the program prior to the senior year.

Additionally, several departments offer honors in the major program of study to students who fulfill department requirements, which typically include honors courses and/or independent research projects.