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HORIZON COLLECTIVE
How the Collective Works
The Horizon Collective puts you on a step-by-step path to professional success. Over your four years, you work on real-world projects in class where you collaborate not only with Horizon classmates and professors from different disciplines, but with industry, government, and community partners, all working toward a common cause.
You start small and work your way up, from assistant to lead, from local to global. Along the way you can do research, hold internships, or travel on immersions. By your senior year, you’ve identified a career where you want to contribute — and you’ve built a resume that shows you’re ready to pursue it.
The Next Step in Professional Preparation
As a Horizon Fellow, you never have to go it alone. You and your Horizon classmates will:
- Enter as a cohort: Undergraduate students from 13 disciplines meet, mix, think, debate, learn, laugh, help each other, and work together to make the world better.
- Build professional skills: You’ll start with a baseline of 150 hours of hands-on learning in your Horizon project classes. Add a relevant campus job, internship, or research assistantship. Or an immersion trip or national conference presentation.
- Work with a professional coach who reviews work, offers guidance, and opens doors.
- Receive a scholarship of up to $5,000 per year, renewable for four years. This is on top of any merit or need-based financial aid you qualify for at USF.
- Pursue “Year 5” options with one of our accelerated bachelor’s and master’s programs, or pitch at our on-campus incubator for funding to launch a product or a nonprofit.
The Horizon Collective is a living lab, on the nation’s most diverse campus, in the heart of the city of progress and innovation. Each course builds on the previous course, and each project leads to the next project. The dots are connected.”
Eileen Fung
Provost
Join the Horizon Collective and work on projects such as these:
Equipped to Lead and Succeed
Engaged Learning
Passion for Justice