Juniors or seniors who maintain at least a 3.5 GPA may be eligible to graduate with "departmental honors."

Laszlo graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2000, where he studied economics and earned departmental honors.

He reinstated the policy of departmental honors with the requirement of a thesis.

Waller graduated from AU with departmental honors in Political Science.

He majored in philosophy and won departmental honors at Amherst College.

All students must complete a senior thesis, which can be either one-semester in length or, to receive departmental honors, two semesters.

A music major, he earned a Bachelor of Arts with departmental honors in choral conducting.

In 1969, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, with departmental honors in political science.

In 1992 Misetic graduated political science at the Northwestern University with departmental honors.

Harvard, however, awards both general and departmental honors and confers some sort of distinction on fully three-quarters of its graduates.