The Newbury College Honors Program offers qualified students a multidisciplinary, academically challenging, and intellectually stimulating supplement to their studies. The goal of the Newbury College Honors Program is to offer academically gifted and highly motivated students the chance to express and expand their intellectual creativity and to develop their academic potential through group and individualized programs of study. The Honors Program is open to academically qualified fulltime students by invitation either at the time of their enrollment at the College or after they have completed one year at the College.

During their first year, the honors students will enroll in Honors Symposium I and II. These courses are a forum for students to explore and analyze topics in disciplines they are not studying and offer extracurricular cultural and social learning experiences. In their sophomore year, the honors students will enroll in an introductory research course. They will use the knowledge gained in this course to complete a sophomore honors thesis in a general education course. As juniors, the honors students will complete a research seminar course and begin to explore topics for their senior honors thesis. During their fourth year, the honors students will enroll in the Senior Honors Thesis course. This course will give the students the opportunity to do extensive research and writing in their major field of study. The senior honors theses will be presented during the spring semester. Faculty members will serve in concert with the Director of the Honors Program as guides and mentors.

In order to be recognized as a graduate of the Honors Program at commencement, the student must have successfully completed all the required course work, a sophomore honors thesis, and a senior honors thesis. They must have no course grade lower than a B and have achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.2.