The Dean of Undergraduate Education and his associates supervise and foster essential university-wide elements of the baccalaureate: First-Year Experience, Freshman Mentoring, General Education, and the Honors Program. These interrelated programs together promote and champion teaching and learning within an integrated university education. They aim to enrich the educational experience and to benefit the life of each undergraduate student.
The Office of General Education provides information on the General Education requirements for students and is a resource for faculty teaching GE courses.
The University Core consists of Religion and General Education (GE) Requirements. Visit the current online University Core for the latest list of certified GE courses.
General Education
The Honors Program provides an unusually rich and challenging experience for capable and motivated undergraduate students. Its purpose is to assist students as they establish lifelong patterns of learning and appreciation of the world's great treasures of knowledge. An Honors education is not merely a more intensive general education or a more strenuous program in a major. Rather, it provides students with the advantages of an enriched education in a small-class setting with excellent professors, while utilizing all of the advantages of a large university.
Honors Program
The Freshman Mentoring program is a key part of a university-wide initiative to strengthen undergraduate education at BYU. It gives all first-year students easier access to certain high-demand University Core classes and provides every freshman with valuable peer mentor support.
Freshman Mentoring
The Office of Prestigious Scholarships & Fellowships (OPSF) advertises national non-BYU scholarships and is separate from BYU's Scholarship Office. Our mission is to help students find and apply for prestigious external scholarships. We promote and endorse BYU candidates for our Recommended Scholarships which include, but are not limited to, the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Fulbright, Goldwater, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships
The Office of First-Year Experience is dedicated to helping you get the most out of your first year at BYU. We sponsor a variety of programs to help new students integrate themselves into the BYU community, such as:
