Honor Societies
Alpha Chi
Missouri Epsilon chapter of the national honor society for four-year colleges and universities. They select their members from junior and senior day students of good character who rank in the top ten percent of their class based on cumulative GPA, have earned at least 24 credit hours at Columbia College, and are enrolled for coursework at the time eligibility.
Alpha Kappa Delta
Alpha Kappa Delta is an international sociology honor society. Membership is limited to sociology majors who have maintained high academic achievement in both their sociology coursework as well as their coursework overall (must maintain a 3.0 cumulative GPA).
Alpha Lambda Delta
Alpha Lambda Delta is a national scholastic society that recognizes superior scholastic achievements by freshmen students during their first year at Columbia College. They select their members from students who rank in the top twenty percent of their class during their first term, have a 3.5 GPA, and are enrolled full-time pursuing a baccalaureate degree at an institution with an active Alpha Lambda Delta chapter at the time of eligibility.
Alpha Phi Sigma
A national honor society for students in criminal justice administration and forensic science. Members must rank in the top 35% of their class, have completed a minimum of four courses within the criminal justice curriculum, maintain a 3.2 GPA in their criminal justice courses as well as maintain a 3.0 cumulative GPA overall.
Alpha Sigma Lambda
A national honor society for adult students who, while handling their life responsibilities, achieve and maintain high scholastic standards. Membership is open to online students who have a minimum GPA of 3.75 and at least twenty-four semester hours with Columbia College.
Kappa Delta Pi
A national education honor society, with membership limited to the top 10% of undergraduate and graduate education majors with the required cumulative GPA. The organization encourages excellence in scholarship, personal standards and teacher preparation. Once elected to this society, membership is renewable for life.
Kappa Mu Epsilon
A national honor society in mathematics. Membership is open to students who rank in the upper 35% of their class and who have completed at least three semesters of college work and completed at least three courses in mathematics, including at least one semester of calculus, and attained an average of B or better in all mathematics courses.
Lambda Pi Eta
A national honor society for students in speech communication. Eligibility for membership requires completion of sixty semester hours, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0, completed twelve semester hours in Communication Studies and have at least a 3.25 GPA for all Communication Studies courses.
Phi Alpha Theta
Phi Alpha Theta is a professional society which promotes the study of history through encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning among historians. Eligibility for membership is based upon a minimum GPA of at least 3.1 in 12 or more hours of history credits and a minimum of a 3.0 GPA overall.
Pi Sigma Alpha
A national honor society for students in political science. Its purpose is to stimulate scholarship and interest in political science by recognizing students who have excelled in the field. Eligibility for membership requires a minimum completion of ten semester hours of political science courses with a minimum GPA of 3.0, and rank in the upper third of their class.
Psi Chi
Psi Chi encourages, stimulates and maintains excellence in scholarship of the individual members in psychology, and advances the science of psychology. Membership is open to day students majoring or minoring in psychology at Columbia College who have completed 3 semesters of college, have completed 9 semester hours of psychology, have a minimum GPA of 3.0 in their general studies and psychology courses.
Sigma Beta Delta
An international honor society in business, management and administration. Membership is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in the top fifteen percent of their class with a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and at least thirty semester hours at Columbia College.
Sigma Tau Delta
Sigma Tau Delta is an international English honor society. Active membership is limited to English majors and minors, with a B or higher average in English classes (beyond composition), who rank in the highest 35 percent of their class in general scholarship and who have completed at least three semesters of college work. Associate membership is open to students with the requisite academic background who are not majoring or minoring in English.
Sigma Zeta
A national honor society primarily for science students. Membership is open to students who have earned at least fifteen hours of science and mathematics courses with at least a 3.0 GPA and whose other grades are satisfactory.
Upsilon Pi Epsilon
A national honor society in computer and information sciences. Membership is limited to students who have completed at least 64 semester hours including CISS 350 or equivalent, have a GPA of at least 3.5 in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems, and rank in the upper third of all students in the major.
