Budget Breakdown

Barrett, The Honors College, is a community of high-achieving students within Arizona State University who benefit from the considerable resources of a premier university combined with the close, personal attention provided by the honors college faculty and staff.

Barrett students:

Prosper in a distinctive honors curriculum, featuring small classes and seminar experiences all four years, that integrates seamlessly into any ASU undergraduate degree at the Downtown, Polytechnic, Tempe, and West campuses
Live in a fully developed four-year honors residential community, the first of its kind and unparalleled in the nation
Enjoy the dedicated support of over one hundred caring professionals - our deans, honors faculty fellows, and staff - who work exclusively with Barrett students and exclusively within the Barrett Honors College
Learn from the very best ASU professors, including MacArthur Fellows, Nobel Laureates, and Pulitzer Prize winners
Receive personalized support through a three-tier advising network featuring an honors academic advisor, advisor in the academic major, and a Faculty Honors Advisor in their field
Have special access to honors-only internships and research positions
Pursue Global Intensive Experiences, Summer Study Programs, Student Exchanges, and interact with world leaders specifically brought to campus for honors student engagement, through the Global Barrett office

The Barrett experience uniquely prepares students for a wide variety of future pursuits. Graduates attend the best graduate schools and accept positions with prominent non-profit and Fortune 500 companies

Barrett boasts a remarkable record in the number of nationally competed post-graduate fellowships and scholarships won by our students, due in large part to the direct access Barrett students have to the Office of National Scholarship Advisement.

The Barrett fee makes the honors experience possible, providing over half of the college operating budget. Seventeen percent (17%) of the funds collected from the fee are given to the ASU Financial Assistance Office to support honors college students with need. The remaining fee money is 100% invested back into the Barrett community.

All fee* money is invested in bettering the honors experience for Barrett students. Barrett students who wish to play an active role in determining how the fee money is allocated should contact the Honors College Council at Barrett for information on the Dean’s Advisory Fee Committee. In years past, the fee has allowed the college to:

Recruit and retain dedicated Barrett faculty who can deliver a reading and writing-intensive First Year Honors curriculum and several upper division seminar courses to all students
Maintain an average class size of 19 students taught by Barrett faculty
Support multiple levels of dedicated Honors Advising, including advising for the core Honors curriculum
Provide additional mentoring for Honors experiences within all majors via the Faculty Honors Advisors program
Develop unique and interdisciplinary curriculum
Fund the release of faculty from other ASU colleges into Barrett courses (for example, it costs an average of $9000 to release a tenured Full Professor into a Barrett course)
Support and manage more than 8000 Honors contracts per semester, running across all disciplinary fields
Develop substantive and innovative co-curricular programming, designed to build students' confidence and skills outside the classroom
Support the residential experience via the recruitment of student leaders
Fund a dedicated and highly qualified professional staff, as well as student workers
Maintain classroom technology
Provide needed amenities to support the student experience
Provide funding for all students to offset costs associated with thesis research
Provide need-based community scholarships for students facing financial hardship
Provide paid positions for student research internships
Provide scholarships for student travel experiences, including Study Abroad programs, Global Intensive Experiences and Great American Cities
Provide funding for students to present their work at academic conferences

*All fee requests made by the College are reviewed and approved by the Arizona Board of Regents

Direct Student Support

Research awards, scholarships, student employment, financial aid, thesis/project funding

Event Programming

Barrett circuit events, Celebrating Honors Symposium, Camps (Camp B, Poly, West & Downtown), lecturers and other Barrett specific events

Administrative Support

Classroom/Community Space Renovations/Upgrades
Technology (software, computers, video equipment, etc.)
College operations support (hiring, training, supplies, equipment, etc.)

Student Services and Academic Support

Teaching for honors courses, honors advisors and student success and engagement staff who produce co-curricular activities and initiatives

Curriculum Development

Honors courses developed in units across ASU

Faculty Honors Advisors

Faculty to support students in each major