Gatton College is pleased to offer a highly selective Lewis Honors College Pathway Program for incoming freshmen, layered on top of the undergraduate business major of your choosing. These pathways provide a more specialized trajectory through the Honors curriculum.
Develop the leadership, ethical decision-making and professional skills needed to succeed across a wide range of business careers. This flexible pathway blends honors coursework with real-world leadership experiences, allowing students to tailor the program to their goals while earning both an honors designation and a certificate that strengthens their preparation for the workplace.
Take your interest in business around the world and learn how to thrive in a global workforce, increase your intercultural competence, and apply business principles in different cultures. As part of this pathway, you will complete a minor in international business and experience a semester abroad, as well as many co-curricular opportunities to enhance your global leadership potential.
Apply business concepts to real-world problems through this pathway, which is offered in partnership with the College of Engineering. In addition to acquiring invaluable strategic decision-making skills, you will also earn a Lean Systems certificate to reflect your knowledge of waste reduction and increased productivity in the workplace.
Explore innovative business solutions that also address social, cultural, and environmental issues. This pathway will develop your entrepreneurial acumen and socially responsible leadership through a variety of experiential learning opportunities, community service, and time with local entrepreneurs and corporations.
The Social Entrepreneurship Scholars Pathway Program will conclude in Spring 2028. Applications will no longer be accepted for this pathway program.
All Honors Pathways students are official members of the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College. This partnership helps to streamline the application process, recruitment initiatives, and curricular interests for students within the Gatton College by allowing them to select a customized Pathway Program option, within the larger Honors context. In this way students are still fulfilling their general Honors requirements with their cohorted pathway classes.
Your degree may be in any of the five majors within the Gatton College that you choose to study. Pathway Programs are enrichment programs that are designed to enhance whatever major you choose within the Gatton College.
The Honors priority deadline is December 1st. The Honors Pathway applications are a part of the general UK application.
Unfortunately no. Due to the individual curricular requirements, students may only participate in one of the Pathway programs.
Students in Global Scholars and Social Entrepreneurship Scholars are encouraged to stay in the Honors Residence Hall located on Central Campus. SEAM students can live either in the Honors Residential Experience or the College of Engineering Residential College.
Gatton Honors Pathway students will receive a specialized curriculum with small cohort classes taught by our top faculty, integrated advising, scholarship opportunities, early admissions to upper-division courses, leadership development, and more. They will have one-on-one interaction with local business and community leaders and counseling for nationally competitive awards like Fulbright, Rhodes, and Truman. Pathway students also get all the benefits of a general Honors student, such as priority registration and an opportunity to live in the Honors Residential Experience.
Generally, students are only allowed to apply as incoming freshmen or during the fall semester of their freshman year.
The programs are each capped at roughly 40 students. Therefore there will be a maximum of 120 Gatton Honors Pathways students per year.
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