Texas A&M University Honors Academy
The Honors Housing Community offers a supportive and enriching environment that fosters academic excellence, personal growth, and lifelong friendships. While previously only open to first-year students, HHC invites enthusiastic community members to stay throughout their time at Texas A&M. This inclusive model strengthens our community by creating natural mentorship opportunities between experienced upperclassmen and incoming students. First-year residents benefit from the guidance of peers who've successfully navigated academic and social challenges, while returning students develop valuable leadership skills and maintain connections to the vibrant intellectual community that enhanced their early college experience.

Our Vision

In the Honors Housing Community... connections are meaningful and authentic, open minds invite deep discussions, challenges are embraced because growth requires risk, and we support each other in turning our ambitions into achievements.

Our Mission

The Honors Housing Community provides a supportive environment where students are encouraged to speak, inquire, challenge, and make a difference. Through this unique residential experience, we help students develop the personal, professional, and intellectual skills needed to address tomorrow's multifaceted problems.

Why Choose the HHC?

Simply put, you matter here.

In the HHC, you don’t just live in our community, you actively create it by:

  • Forming spontaneous study groups that boost everyone's academic performance
  • Transforming the Lechner Seminar Room (LSR) from an all-night study session to a board game fest, movie night, LAN party, or anything else you can imagine
  • Building cross-class connections which transcend traditional university social boundaries
  • Engaging in quirky traditions like our annual "Superlatives" awards celebrating individual uniqueness or “Freedom Brick” to signal when you're open to visitors and conversation
  • Becoming a formal leader by joining the Honors Housing Community Student Leaders (our Peer Mentors) or an informal leader by bringing your authentic self to every interaction, conversation, and community gathering
Research-backed benefits:

Research consistently shows that students who participate in Living Learning Communities like the HHC experience significant benefits, including:

  • Higher academic achievement with improved GPAs and class attendance
  • Stronger campus connections and increased involvement in professional organizations
  • Enhanced faculty relationships through events such as our “Guest Speaker Series”
  • Accelerated personal development through peer mentorship and leadership opportunities
  • Greater likelihood of on-time graduation compared to non-LLC participants
Other benefits of the HHC:
  • Modular-style coed (by room) housing with private bathrooms in each room
  • Dedicated shared spaces such as the community kitchen, Lechner Seminar Room, and HHC-specific outdoor chess and ping-pong tables
  • Convenient Northside location near Northside Garage, Hullaballoo Starbucks, and Sbisa dining hall
  • Live-in Peer Mentors who build community through exclusive HHC events and socials
  • An environment that encourages students to maturely navigate differences in opinions, beliefs, practices, and traditions as part of a small, supportive peer group within the larger Texas A&M community

Learn More

The HHC is a place where the National Collegiate Honors Council vision of education that is "measurably broader, deeper, or more complex" comes to life every day.

HHC Houses (Overview)

Learn more about each House within the Honors Housing Community.

Honors Housing Community Student Leaders (HHCSL)

Learn more about our Peer Mentors, the Honors Housing Community Student Leaders.

HHCSL Peer Mentor Directory

Meet our current and past Peer Mentors.

Ready to make the HHC your home? Select the Honors Housing Community as one of your preferences during Phase II of your housing application through Residence Life. Learn more about the application process at https://reslife.tamu.edu/full-academic-year-application-process/  and watch the Phase II Video.