Continuing Muir Honors students are able to register before everyone else in subsequent quarters and therefore will have the best access to desirable classes and, perhaps more importantly, to desirable class times. All honors students are assured of four years of on-campus housing if desired. Qualified students graduate with a degree awarded with distinction , with high distinction , or with highest distinction . Each department may honor up to twenty percent of graduating seniors who have completed a special course of study within that department or program. Information on the special courses of study are published in the UCSD General Catalog.
Qualified students graduate with a degree awarded cum laude , magna cum laude , or summa cum laude .
Eligibility to receive University Honors at graduation is determined according to campus policy. A maximum of fourteen percent of graduating seniors may be honored. Ranking is based on the GPA for at least eighty quarter-units of graded course work at the University of California. This generally means that the top two percent will graduate summa cum laude , the next four percent, magna cum laude , and the next eight percent, cum laude . UCSD's Sigma Chapter is among only 255 chapters chartered since the Society's founding in 1776.