The Burnett Honors College is an academic college of the University of Central Florida located in Orlando, Florida, USA. The dean of the college is Alvin Y. Wang, Ph.D. In 1998, the UCF Honors Program was granted college status. Al and Nancy Burnett donated almost $1.5 million towards the completion of a building to house the new honors college, and it was subsequently named in their honor. The Burnett Honors College building was completed in May 2002, and formally dedicated on October 23, 2002. The mission of the college is to provide a challenging academic program and a foundation for future achievement to UCF's most academically talented undergraduate students. With only 1700 students in the college, the Burnett Honors College combines the intimacy of a small liberal arts college with the advantages of a large metropolitan research university. The college does not have any departments or offer any degrees by itself; all of its students are also students of one of the other colleges at the university.