What academic honors are available?

• Full-time students who have achieved a grade point average of 3.600 or higher at the end of any Fall or Winter Terms will be placed on the Dean’s List.
• At the end of Fall and Winter Terms, full-time students in attendance for at least two terms and whose cumulative grade point average at Elmira College is 3.600 or higher will be designated as Honor Scholars.
• Graduation Honors are awarded to Bachelor degree recipients who achieve the cumulative grade point averages indicated below. In order to be fair to students who spend their whole College careers at Elmira College, graduation honors are calculated including all undergraduate work attempted at any regionally accredited college or university, including transfer credits not accepted.
  • Summa cum laude — 3.800 and above
  • Magna cum laude — 3.600 to 3.799
  • Cum laude — 3.400 to 3.599
    These honors will be entered on the Elmira College transcript and the diploma. Graduation honors are calculated ONLY for those students who first achieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.400 or above at Elmira College and have completed all degree requirements. For those completing degree requirements at a time other than the June Commencement, Latin honors will be noted on the transcript and diploma at the time of the degree conferral and will not be recognized at Commencement.
• Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Chapter of New York was instituted at Elmira College November 29, 1940. Inductees are elected during Winter Term of their senior year. Election does not result solely from high grades. Members in course are elected on the basis of scholarly achievement in the liberal arts (as distinguished from applied or professional work), broad cultural interests, good character, and promise of future intellectual growth and effectiveness. Candidates must be majoring in liberal subjects and demonstrate breadth of program, again in liberal subjects, as shown by the number and variety of courses taken outside the major. Candidates, further, shall have demonstrated knowledge of mathematics at least equivalent to three years of college preparatory secondary-school mathematics and a knowledge of a foreign language at least equivalent to the College intermediate-level course. Transfer students are eligible for consideration only if they complete two full years (60 credits) Elmira College.
• Elmira College has active chapters in fifteen other honor societies. For more information, please contact Dean Michael Halperin, McGraw Hall, room 113, (607) 735-1895.