Honorary Organizations

Alpha Epsilon Delta (Pre-Medical)
Membership is an honor bestowed in recognition of superior scholarship achievement and affords the student an opportunity to develop initiative, leadership, and self education.

Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology)
The candidate for membership must have completed at least 10 credit hours in sociology, must have at least a general scholastic average of a B in all sociology courses, and must be in the upper 35 percent of the class.

Alpha Lambda Delta (Freshman)
To become a member, a student must earn a scholastic average of 3.5 during the first, second, or third quarter of enrollment.

Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering)
The constitution states that only those ranked in the upper one-fifth of the junior class or the upper one-third of the senior class can be considered for membership.

Beta Alpha Psi
Beta Alpha Psi is an honorary and professional accounting fraternity established to recognize excellence in accounting students. Membership provides a benchmark by which most public accounting firms and many corporations judge their accounting applicants. As the premier professional accounting and business information fraternity, Beta Alpha Psi complements members' formal education by providing interaction between students, faculty, and professionals, and fosters lifelong growth, service and ethical conduct.

Beta Gamma Sigma (Business or Management)
Founded as a national organization in 1913, membership in this society is the highest national recognition a student can receive in an undergraduate or master's program in business or management accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. To be eligible, a student must rank in the upper seven percent of the junior class, upper ten percent of the senior class, or upper twenty percent of the graduating master's class. Members are elected to membership. The mission of the organization is to encourage and honor high academic achievement and personal excellence in the study and practice of business.

Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering)
Membership is open by chapter invitation only to graduates, faculty, professionals, juniors in the top fourth of the electrical engineering class, and seniors in the top third of the electrical engineering class.

Kappa Delta Pi (Academic Honor Society)
Kappa Delta Pi is an international honor society dedicated to Scholarship and excellence in education. The society as a community of scholars pledged to worthy ideals: Recognizes Scholarship and excellence in education, Promotes the development and dissemination of worthy educational ideas and practices, Enhances the continuous growth and leadership of its diverse membership, Fosters inquiry and reflection on significant educational issues, Maintains a high degree of professional fellowship.

Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership)
Membership is open to those students who have attained a high degree of leadership in collegiate and related activities.

Order of Omega (Greek)
Membership is open to juniors and seniors of the Greek organizations on campus who have been a member at the institution for one full academic year, who rank academically about the all-fraternity or all-sorority average of the system and are in good standing with the fraternal organization.

Phi Alpha Theta (History)
Membership is open by invitation only to history students who have completed a minimum of 12 hours in history with a grade-point average of 3.5 and an overall average of 3.0 in all other courses.

Phi Beta Lambda (Business)
Membership is open to students participating in the fields of business, office and business teacher education.

Phi Kappa Phi (Multi-discipline)
The primary objective is the recognition and encouragement of superior scholarship in all academic disciplines.

Phi Sigma Iota (Foreign Language)
Membership is open by nomination to any UAH student who is at least a junior with a B average overall, as well as in foreign languages has completed at least one foreign language course at the 300 level. After membership is granted, the student should take at least two 300 level courses in foreign languages.

Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science)
Membership is open to political science students with junior standing having a minimum of ten semester hours and a B average or higher in political science courses.

Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering)
Membership is open to those students in the top 25 percent of the juniors and the top third of the seniors in mechanical engineering.

Psi Chi (Psychology)
Membership is open to students with 3.0 overall grade-point average and a 3.0 in psychology. Students minoring in psychology are required to have completed 12 hours of psychology courses. Students majoring in psychology should have completed 15 hours of psychology courses.

Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics)
The Sigma Pi Sigma honorary society operates within the Society of Physics Students. To be eligible for membership, students must have completed at least three semesters of full-time college work, must have taken at least three physics classes that would count towards a physics major, must be majoring in Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, or Material Science, must have a GPA of at least 3.2, and must be a members of the UAH Chapter and national SPS.

Sigma Tau Delta (English)
Membership is open by invitation only to English majors and minors of junior standing who have a 3.0 grade-point average.

Sigma Theta Tau (Nursing)
Membership is open by invitation only to junior and senior nursing students who have completed at least one-half of the required nursing component with a grade point average of 3.0. Graduate students in nursing who have completed one-fourth of the required graduate curriculum may be eligible for membership with a grade point average of 3.3.

Society of Sigma Xi (Science Research)
Sigma Xi's goals are to encourage cooperation and communication in scientific research among all scientists, to advance scientific research, and to assist the wider understanding of science. Election to membership is open to all undergraduates, graduate students and faculty in scientific and engineering disciplines who have evidence of notable achievement in research.

Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)
Membership is by invitation to those whose class standing is in the top eighth of the junior class or the top fifth of the senior class and has demonstrated exemplary character.

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Computer Science)
The Computer Science Honor Society is for both graduates and undergraduates.