Montgomery Scholars

The Montgomery Scholars Program is a selective-admission two-year interdisciplinary honors program designed for high school graduates as the first step in completing a four-year degree.

Montgomery Scholars will launch their college studies at a fraction of the cost of most four-year schools. The College will award merit scholarships to each student admitted into the Scholars program. These Montgomery Scholars scholarships cover the cost of full-tuition and fees, for two years of study at Montgomery College (30 credits per year at the in-county resident tuition rate).

As a Montgomery Scholar, you’ll be part of an exciting community of honors students sharing common intellectual and cultural experiences over the course of your two years at Montgomery College.

We emphasize interdisciplinary discourse and encourage students from all academic disciplines to apply.

Faculty and Staff

From Florida’s Oklawaha River to Calcutta, India, from living with Travelling communities in Scotland while conducting research for a dissertation on Scottish Traveller ballads, to studying the impact of domestic groups on US foreign policy toward Cuba, our faculty are an intriguing and diverse company. See thecomplete storyon first-year and second-year faculty, and our honors counselors.

Student Life and Scholars in the News

新社区、静修、野餐、领导和服务学习的机会比比皆是:在校园里和校外，在计划好的活动和自发的聚会中，你将体验到已经成为奖学金项目特殊标志的友情。我们为即将入学的学生举办了传统的静修会，还有一年一度的公园野餐会，毕业并转学到四年制学院和大学的学者每年都会回到这里，与新的学者见面，分享最新消息和特别新闻。学者在项目的前两年和夏季学习期间完成服务学习。Read moreabout student life in the Montgomery Scholars' Program,Scholarly Pursuits, our award-winning program newsletter, and compelling alumni success stories and testimonials .

Curriculum

At the heart of the program is a general studies curriculum designed to fulfill many of the general education requirements at MC and prepare you for transfer to a four-year school. Montgomery Scholars have successfully transferred as anthropology, art, biological sciences, business, computer science, economics, engineering, history, mathematics, political science, pre-med, psychology and world language majors, to name a few.Read more关于它。

Counseling and Transfer

Special honors counselors work with each class of Scholars to provide academic advising, personal counseling, and transfer advising.Find out moreabout counseling and transfer for Montgomery Scholars.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Montgomery Scholars Program is to recruit 25 diverse Montgomery County High School seniors each year and to teach them in an intense, nurturing and stimulating learning community. We are committed to an interdisciplinary approach to post-secondary education, providing a first-year core curriculum which blends together the three disciplines of history, literature, and world music. This first-year core is team-taught and has an emphasis on Global Perspectives: Early Modern to Post Modern. In the second year of the program, another team-taught interdisciplinary capstone project links the students’ speech with an honors seminar and International Relations class. The capstone emphasizes independent research and public speaking, culminating in a Scholars Colloquium. A number of other honors classes are also tied to the core curriculum and enable students in the program to continue making cross-academic links. The aim of the Program is to encourage students to think critically, independently and globally. We believe a study travel experience also encourages such thinking, as do co-curricular activities including museum and art gallery visits and service learning. Fundamentally, we aim to facilitate students in the program to graduate in two years and to pursue their major at a four-year school; to that end, we also believe in personal advising to enable students to pursue and fulfill their aims.