Program Overview

Interdisciplinary Business Honors Program

The Interdisciplinary Business Honors Program is designed for exceptional students from all majors across the University of Maryland. Introduced by the UMD Honors College and the Robert H. Smith School of Business in Fall 2022, this two-year program features an advanced and unique interdisciplinary approach.

Program Description

All IBH students are required to live in the IBH living-learning community, located in Prince Frederick Hall, for their first year. The program combines access to cutting-edge professional and technical business skills with broader thinking about the role of business in the world, and in relation to multiple academic fields. Students apply this knowledge to think critically about the great challenges of our time, including social, environmental, public health, and human rights topics.

Program Structure

• The program is a two-year interdisciplinary business honors program.
• Students live in the IBH living-learning community for their first year.
• The program combines business skills with broader thinking about the role of business in the world.

Program Benefits

• Access to cutting-edge professional and technical business skills.
• Broader thinking about the role of business in the world and its relation to multiple academic fields.
• Opportunity to think critically about great challenges of our time, including social, environmental, public health, and human rights topics.

Eligibility and Admission

• The program is designed for exceptional students from all majors across the University of Maryland.
• Admission criteria and requirements are not specified in the provided context.

Program Outcomes

• Students develop advanced and unique interdisciplinary skills.
• Students apply knowledge to think critically about great challenges of our time.
• The program prepares students for a wide range of career opportunities.