Honor Societies

Alpha Epsilon Delta is an honorary pre-medical fraternity. Leadership, scholarship, expertness, character, and personality are the qualities by which students are judged for membership. The organization seeks to bridge the gap between pre-medical and medical studies.

Alpha Eta Sigma is a scholastic and professional accounting fraternity with the following objectives; promotion of the study and practice of accounting; provision of opportunities for self-development and association among members and practicing accountants; and encouragement of a sense of ethical, social, and public responsibility.

Alpha Kappa Delta, an international sociology honorary, promotes the use of the sociological imagination in understanding and serving human beings. The chapter, Gamma of Mississippi, founded in 1984, is a joint chapter with Tougaloo College.

Alpha Psi Omega, a national honorary dramatics fraternity, recognizes members of The Millsaps Players for their effective participation in acting, directing, make-up, stage management, costuming, lighting, or publicity.

Beta Beta Beta, established at Millsaps in 1968, is a national honor fraternity for students in the biological sciences. Its purposes are to stimulate sound scholarship, to promote the dissemination of scientific truth, and to encourage investigation of the life sciences.

Beta Gamma Sigma is a national honor society dedicated to the principles and ideals essential to a worthy life as well as to a commendable business career. Election to memberships is the highest scholastic honor that a student in a school of business or management can achieve.

Eta Sigma Phi is a national honor fraternity recognizing ability in classical studies. Alpha Phi, the Millsaps chapter, was founded in 1935.

Financial Management Association Honor Society, established in 1984 on the Millsaps campus, serves to encourage and reward scholarship and accomplishment in financial management, financial institutions, and investments among undergraduate and graduate students, and to encourage interaction between business executives, faculty, and students of finance.

Omicron Delta Epsilon is the international economics honorary society. It is dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in economics, with a main objective of recognizing scholastic attainment in economics. Delta chapter of Mississippi was formed at Millsaps College in 1981.

micron Delta Kappa is a leadership society with chapters in principal colleges and universities. Pi Circle at Millsaps brings together members of the student body, faculty and administration interested in campus activities, together with a limited number of alumni, to plan for the betterment of the College. Election to membership in Omicron Delta Kappa is a distinct honor.

Order of Omega is a national leadership society which recognizes student achievement in promoting inter-Greek activities. The Millsaps chapter, Eta Kappa, was founded in 1986.

Phi Alpha Theta is an international honor society in history founded in 1921. Membership is composed of students and professors, elected on the basis of excellence in the study and writing of history. It encourages the study, teaching, and writing of history among all its members.

Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest academic honor society, was installed at Millsaps in spring 1989. It recognizes and encourages excellence in the liberal arts. The Millsaps chapter, Alpha of Mississippi, elects members from the senior class on the basis of broad cultural interests, scholarly achievement, and good character.

Phi Eta Sigma is a national honorary society which recognizes outstanding academic achievement in freshmen. The Millsaps chapter was established in 1981. Membership is open to all full-time freshmen who achieve a grade-point average of 3.5 in either the first semester or both semesters of the freshman year.

Pi Delta Phi is a national French honor society which recognizes attainment and scholarship in the study of the French language and literature.

Schiller Gesellschaft was founded in order to give recognition to those students who have shown excellence in the study of German and in order to provide a forum for the study of all aspects of German civilization.

Sigma Delta Pi, the international Spanish honorary, was established at Millsaps College in 1968. This honor society recognizes attainment and scholarship in the study of the Spanish language and literature.

Sigma Gamma Epsilon is a national geology honor society. Established in 1993, the organization recognizes achievement in Geological Sciences.

Sigma Lambda is a leadership and service honorary society whose members are primarily sophomores selected on the basis of character, scholarship, and involvement in college and community activities.

Sigma Pi Sigma, a national honor society in physics, was established at Millsaps in 1988. Its purpose is to honor excellence in physics.

Sigma Tau Delta is the national English honor society. The purposes of the society are to confer distinction for high achievement in English language and literature, to promote interest in literature and the English language, and to foster the discipline of English in all its aspects, including creative and critical writing. The Zeta Sigma chapter was chartered at Millsaps in 1983.

Theta Nu Sigma membership is offered to second semester sophomores, juniors, and seniors who are majoring in one of the natural sciences and who fulfill certain specified qualifications. The purpose is to further general interest in the sciences.

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