Pursue the Good, the True, and the Beautiful
Torrey Honors College is the undergraduate honors program at Biola University. A distinctively different path for fulfilling nearly all of Biola’s core education requirements, Torrey Honors brings together curious, sharp thinkers from different majors and backgrounds from all over the world to pursue the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
At Torrey Honors we join a long line of thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to C.S. Lewis who knew that free people require an education that wrestles with ideas rather than removes real debate from the civic arena.
Torrey Honors students read deeply from great books spanning across millennia. They gather with peers in a hand-selected learning community to spend hundreds of hours in discussion, searching out answers to big questions together — all while guided by a faculty mentor. And when they graduate, students enter a community dedicated to lifelong learning and pursuing Christ both personally and vocationally.
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Classical Learning For All Majors
Employers in all fields are looking for creative and adaptive thinkers. Leaders who can work collaboratively and think critically. That’s why Torrey Honors College is designed to fit with any Biola degree. As an alternate path for completing Biola’s core curriculum requirements, Torrey Honors College allows students to experience the best of classical learning — no matter their major.
Torrey Honors College and Biola’s Snyder School of Cinema and Media Arts
Students who enroll in both Torrey Honors College and the Snyder School of Cinema and Media Arts have access to a unique education designed to equip and train storytellers who can think critically, discern truth and communicate compassionately.
Honors Study Abroad: Torrey Oxford
Explore Torrey Honors College's new semester-long study abroad option where students earn Torrey Honors course credit while living and learning at the University of Oxford, one of the world's most prestigious universities.
I value the community at Biola, where everyone is supportive of one another on our academic and spiritual journeys. I also value the opportunities that Biola gives me to do what I love — reading, discussion, and vocal and instrumental music — at a high level through Torrey honors and the Conservatory.
Being at Biola, surrounded by professors and friends living so faithfully for Christ, inspired me to deepen my faith too. Torrey helped me to read and think about the Bible in ways I never had, and my art professors helped me to understand the ways in which I could use my God-given talents and desires to better serve his kingdom and people.
"Opening Question" Podcast
Good conversation about great ideas. Opening Question is the official podcast of Torrey Honors College. Listen now!