Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University is a selective, residential college that recruits academically outstanding undergraduates across the nation. Named “Best Honors College” in the nation, this residential community has more National Merit Scholars than Princeton, Yale or Stanford and Barrett students benefit from a ten million dollar endowment used exclusively to support honors students and their projects.

Barrett students have the unique advantage of both experiencing a small, intellectually and socially vibrant environment, while having access to the vast resources of a major research university in ASU. Together, the college and university allow Barrett students to simultaneously benefit from being with others of the same intellectual preparation and commitment while enjoying the advantages of a university environment actively engaged in exploring all areas of human interest and concern. All students who enter ASU through Barrett, The Honors College also enroll in a disciplinary college and pursue one or more of the 255 available disciplinary majors and concentrations. Their education is the result of the collaborative efforts of the college's directly appointed faculty and of faculty appointed by the disciplinary units. Barrett students enjoy the combined ability of the college and university to cultivate different talents and interests that can meet their changing needs as they develop academically and socially.

Barrett's location houses its entire operation: classrooms, computer lab, Barrett Writing Center, faculty, staff and administrative offices, an advising center, student residences, and the Barrett Bistro. The eight Barrett Honors College residence halls in Center Complex offer students an opportunity to be part of a living and learning community modeled after the British universities. The community serves as the center of academic and co-curricular activities for all honors students.

Barrett students take advantage of an array of opportunities that enrich the honors experience. Barrett students travel abroad, receive national and international scholarships such as Rhodes, Truman and Marshall Scholarships, take advantage of unique undergraduate research and internship opportunities, attend social and cultural events, work in the governor’s office, secure internships on Wall Street, publish poetry in the honors literary publication LUX, meet with doctors from the Mayo clinic and work with professors in the Bio Design institute on the latest developments in nanotechnology to name a few! Many honors students seek leadership opportunities and find fulfillment in serving others both on campus and in the larger metropolitan community. Students also meet with visitors to the college of great notoriety and achievement in their fields like Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who met with students to discuss her experience as a Supreme Court Justice, and former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, who taught an honors class on "Turning Points in Television News History" as the Rhodes Lecturer In-residence.