Sally Mc Donnell Barksdale Honors College
The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College (SMBHC) is the honors program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1997 through an endowment from Jim and Sally McDonnell Barksdale, the college boasts the rich education of a private liberal arts school at the cost of a public university. The institute originally bore the name McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College but was renamed upon the death of Sally McDonnell Barksdale in 2003.
The SMBHC is among the four leading honors colleges in the United States, which include Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State (both of which shared the Reader's Digest “Best in America” honor in 2005 with the SMBHC), and the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.
The Chronicle of Higher Education says the SMBHC "offers as fine an education as one might find at Carleton or Kenyon Colleges."
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