Honors Program
Honors in Business (Code 1-0003)
The College of Business Administration (CBA) at California State University, Long Beach, offers the opportunity for a selected group of outstanding students to participate in the CBA Honors Program (CBAHP). This enriched, more demanding program gives students an opportunity to enroll in special 'Honors Seminars' composed of a small number of the CBA's most outstanding students that are taught by a select group of the College's faculty. In addition, students complete a senior project (much like an honors thesis), the topic of which is designed to fit the individual student's interests and skills. Thus, the Honors Program offered by the CBA is intended to be intellectually rewarding, and to provide a valuable experience that enhances students' future careers. Special focus is on those students who wish to pursue an advanced degree and career in academia.
"...knowledge is not a mere extrinsic or accidental advantage, which is ours today and another's tomorrow, which may be got up from a book, and easily forgotten again, which we can command or communicate at our pleasure, which we can borrow for the occasion, carry about in our hand, and take into the market; it is an acquired illumination, it is a habit, a personal possession, and an inward endowment."
– John Henry Cardinal Newman (1852)
The program is designed as a 3-semester program, beginning in the Summer semester before the senior year. The program is also open to motivated juniors. Typically, CBAHP students take the preliminary honors seminar the first Summer Session, and progress to advanced honors seminars and their thesis project the following academic year.