I am the Director of the Honors Program at The Citadel. Somehow, a mistaken notion about our program has taken root. The Citadel Honors Program is open to students of all majors. As a matter of fact, in most years a large number of our students major in STEM subjects such as engineering...
I would like to clear up this misconception. In the last group of entering Honors Program freshmen at The Citadel, for instance, we had 24 students. Among them were a healthy number of STEM majors:
2 Electrical Engineering majors
2 Chemistry majors
5 Mechanical Engineering majors
2 Civil...