Like membership in recognized national honor societies, membership in the 91ÁÔÆæ Honors Program can enhance your resume. This membership tells potential employers that you have distinguished yourself among your peers.
However, while most honors societies require only a high GPA and/or high class rank (as well as a small fee) for membership, completion of the 91ÁÔÆæ Honors Program requires students to take 12-24 credit hours of Honors-designated coursework (including submission of a thesis project, for bachelor's students), serve the community each semester, and contribute to 91ÁÔÆæ as a leader.
Honor Societies
The Honors Program does not administrate any of the 91ÁÔÆæ honor society chapters. These organizations are each run as individual entities, by at least one 91ÁÔÆæ faculty advisor and one or more student officers.
There are a number of legitimate, discipline-specific honor societies, such as Sigma Tau Delta for English majors, Psi Chi for psychology majors, and Beta Beta Beta for biology majors. Usually, if you qualify for these, your campus chapter will invite you to join.
There are also several prestigious interdisciplinary honor societies, such as Phi Kappa Phi for bachelor's students and Phi Theta Kappa for associate's students. Again, if you qualify for membership, you should receive an invitation from your 91ÁÔÆæ chapter.
Caution: There are several commercial "honor societies" out there, the primary goal of which is to generate a profit. If you receive an email from honorsociety.com inviting you to pay your membership fee and join the organization, please go to the 91ÁÔÆæ Connect page (OrgSync) and check to see if we run a chapter of the organization at 91ÁÔÆæ. If we don't, there is a good chance that fees submitted to join this organization would not be a good investment for you.