The Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS), founded in 1925, is a predominantly American

United States

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 organization that serves a number of functions with respect to national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies. In particular, it is a certifying body for such organizations, facilitates communications between them, and provides both scholarships and an outlet for publication to members.

The ACHS was formed in 1925, in response to concerns about the unregulated nature of honor societies. Four organizations were represented at a preliminary meeting held on October 2, 1925. They were Alpha Omega Alpha

Alpha Omega Alpha

The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, commonly called Alpha Omega Alpha and abbreviated ΑΩΑ or AOA, is a national honor society for medical students, residents, scientists and physicians in the United States and Canada.-History:...

, the Order of the Coif

Order of the Coif

The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...

, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi

Sigma Xi

Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit honor society which was founded in 1886 at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a handful of graduate students. Members elect others on the basis of their research achievements or potential...

. Two other organizations, Phi Kappa Phi

Phi Kappa Phi

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is an honor society established 1897 to recognize and encourage superior scholarship without restriction as to area of study and to promote the "unity and democracy of education"...

 and Gamma Sigma Delta, sent word of their interest, although they were unable to attend.

List of member organizations

61 organizations are affiliated with the ACHS:
Scabbard and Blade

Scabbard and Blade

Scabbard and Blade is a college military honor society founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1904. Although membership is open to R.O.T.C. cadets and midshipmen of all military services, the society is modeled after the U.S. Army and its chapters are called companies and are organized into...

Society	Discipline
Alpha Beta Gamma Alpha Beta Gamma Alpha Beta Gamma is an international business honor society established in 1970 to recognize and encourage scholarship among two-year college students in business curricula. Alpha Beta Gamma provides leadership opportunities, forums for the exchange of ideas and the stimulation of interest in...	Business
Alpha Chi	All Academic Fields
Alpha Epsilon	Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering
Alpha Epsilon Delta Alpha Epsilon Delta Alpha Epsilon Delta is a U.S. health preprofessional honor society. The organization currently has more than 144,000 members within 186 chapters at universities throughout the United States, making it the world's largest Honor Society serving all students from different backgrounds in the pursuit...	Premedicine
Alpha Epsilon Rho	Electronic Media
Alpha Iota Delta	Decision Sciences and Information Systems
Alpha Kappa Delta Alpha Kappa Delta Alpha Kappa Delta is an international sociology honor society.Founded in 1920 by Emory S. Bogardus, of the University of Southern California sociology department, the name is derived from the Greek anthrôpos meaning mankind, katamanthanô, meaning to examine closely or acquire knowledge, and...	Sociology
Alpha Kappa Mu Alpha Kappa Mu The Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society is an American collegiate honor society recognizing academic excellence in all areas of study. Juniors, seniors, and graduate students are permitted to join...	All Academic Fields
Alpha Lambda Delta Alpha Lambda Delta Alpha Lambda Delta is an honor society for students who have achieved a 3.5 GPA or higher and are in the top 20% of their class during their first year or term of higher education.-History:...	Freshman Scholarship
Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma Alpha Phi Sigma is the only Criminal Justice Honor Society accredited by the Association of College Honor Societies. Traditionally a national organization serving United States universities, recent expansion into Canadian universities has distinguished Alpha Phi Sigma as an international honor...	Criminal Justice
Alpha Pi Mu	Industrial Engineering
Alpha Sigma Lambda Alpha Sigma Lambda Alpha Sigma Lambda is a national honor society for non-traditional undergraduate students who achieve and maintain outstanding scholastic standards and leadership characteristics while adroitly handling additional responsibilities of work and family .The founding chapter was established by Dr...	Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
Alpha Sigma Mu	Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
Alpha Sigma Nu Alpha Sigma Nu Alpha Sigma Nu was founded at Marquette University in 1915 by John Danihy, S.J., Dean of Journalism. In his travels and reading, Father Danihy had encountered and admired honor societies...	General Scholarship - Jesuit Institutions of Higher Education
Beta Gamma Sigma Beta Gamma Sigma Beta Gamma Sigma or ΒΓΣ is an honor society for business students and scholars. Founded in 1913 at the University of Wisconsin, it has over 650,000 members, selected from over 500 chapters in AACSB-accredited business schools...	Business and Management
Beta Kappa Chi	Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Beta Phi Mu Beta Phi Mu Beta Phi Mu is the international honor society for library & information science and information technology. Founded by a group of librarians and library educators, the society's express purpose is to recognize and encourage "superior academic achievement" among library and information studies...	Library & Information Studies and Information Technology
Chi Epsilon Chi Epsilon Chi Epsilon is the national civil engineering honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students who have exemplified the "principles of scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability...in the civil engineering profession." There are currently 136 chapters, of which 130...	Civil Engineering
Chi Sigma Iota	Professional Counseling
Delta Epsilon Sigma Delta Epsilon Sigma Delta Epsilon Sigma is a national scholastic honor society that was established in 1939 for students of Catholic universities and colleges in the United States. The society was founded at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa in 1939 by Father Fitzgerald. Requirements for membership are as follows...	General Scholarship in Colleges and Universities with a Catholic Tradition
Delta Mu Delta Delta Mu Delta Delta Mu Delta is an international honor society that recognizes academic excellence in Baccalaureate, Master's, and Doctorate degree business administration programs at Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs -accredited schools...	Business Administration
Delta Sigma Rho - Tau Kappa Alpha	Forensics
Delta Tau Alpha	Agriculture
Epsilon Pi Tau Epsilon Pi Tau Epsilon Pi Tau is an international honor society for professions in technology.Membership in Epsilon Pi Tau may be at one of three levels: General Member, Laureate Member, and Distinguished Service Member. The latter two levels are attained through professional performance and accomplishment...	Professions in Technology
Gamma Theta Upsilon Gamma Theta Upsilon Gamma Theta Upsilon is an international honor society in geography.-History:On May 15, 1928, a local professional fraternity by the name of Gamma Theta Upsilon was formed at Illinois State University under the guidance of Dr. R. G. Buzzard. Before that is was the Geography Club at Illinois State...	Geography
Golden Key International Honour Society Golden Key International Honour Society The Golden Key International Honour Society is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organization founded in 1977 to recognise academic achievement among college and university students in all disciplines....	Scholarships and Awards
Kappa Mu Epsilon Kappa Mu Epsilon Kappa Mu Epsilon is a mathematics honor society founded in 1930 to focus on the needs of undergraduate mathematics students. There are now over 100 chapters at various American universities and colleges, primarily at mid-sized public universities or smaller private institutions...	Mathematics
Kappa Omicron Nu	Fellowships and Grants
Kappa Tau Alpha Kappa Tau Alpha Kappa Tau Alpha is an American college honor society which recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communication...	Journalism and Mass Communication
Lambda Iota Tau Lambda Iota Tau Lambda Iota Tau is an American international honor society for literature, whose purpose is to recognize and promote excellence in the study of literature in all languages...	Literature of all Languages
Lambda Pi Eta Lambda Pi Eta Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association . As a member of the Association of College Honor Societies , Lambda Pi Eta has over 400 active chapters at four-year colleges and universities worldwide.Lambda Pi Eta was founded in 1985 at...	Communication
Lambda Sigma Lambda Sigma Lambda Sigma is an American college sophomore honor society. Originally named the Society of Cwens, the society was established at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 1922 as a women's honors society, and became a national organization with the 1925 foundation of chapters at Miami University and...	Student Leadership, Scholarship and Service
Mortar Board Mortar Board Mortar Board is an American national honor society whose purpose is to recognize outstanding students dedicated to the values of scholarship, leadership, and service. The Cornell University Der Hexenkreis chapter, founded in 1892, is the oldest and predates the national society's founding in 1918...	Scholarship, Leadership and Service
Mu Kappa Tau	Marketing
National Society of Collegiate Scholars National Society of Collegiate Scholars The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is a national nonprofit academic honor society for college students in the United States. NSCS has active chapters at more than 280 colleges and universities in the United States, including in the District of Columbia, and in Puerto Rico, consisting of a...	Scholarship, Leadership & Service
Omega Chi Epsilon Omega Chi Epsilon Omega Chi Epsilon is an American honor society for chemical engineering students. The first chapter was formed at the University of Illinois in 1931. The second chapter was formed at the Iowa State University in 1932. The organization is a member of the Association of College Honor...	Chemical Engineering
Omega Rho	Operations Research & Management Science
Omicron Delta Epsilon Omicron Delta Epsilon Omicron Delta Epsilon is an international honor society in the field of economics. Resulting from the merger of Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon, ODE was founded in 1963 . Its board of trustees includes well-known economists such as Robert Lucas, Kenneth Arrow, and Robert Solow...	Economics
Phi Alpha Theta Phi Alpha Theta Phi Alpha Theta is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history.The society is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies and has over 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters.-...	History
Phi Sigma Phi Sigma Phi Sigma is an honor society for students of biological sciences. Phi Sigma was founded on March 17, 1915 at Ohio State University. It became a member of the Association of College Honor Societies in 1950. The Greek letter, Phi and Sigma, signify "fellows in science." The coat of arms contains...	Biological Sciences, All Pure and Applied Fields
Phi Sigma Iota Phi Sigma Iota Phi Sigma Iota, or ΦΣΙ, is an honor society whose members are elected from among outstanding advanced and graduate students of foreign languages and literatures including Classics, Comparative Literature, Philology, Bilingual Education, and Applied Linguistics...	Foreign Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, ESL., & Cultures
Phi Sigma Tau Phi Sigma Tau Phi Sigma Tau is an international honor society for philosophers. Its essential purpose is to promote ties among philosophy departments in accredited institutions and students in philosophy nationally...	Philosophy
Phi Upsilon Omicron	Family and Consumer Sciences
Pi Alpha Alpha Pi Alpha Alpha Pi Alpha Alpha is the national honor society for students of public administration. It is administered by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration in the United States....	Public Affairs and Administration
Pi Delta Phi Pi Delta Phi Pi Delta Phi is the French National Honor Society for undergraduate and graduate students at accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States. The society was admitted to membership in the Association of College Honor Societies in 1967.Pi Delta Phi was founded as a...	French
Pi Gamma Mu Pi Gamma Mu Pi Gamma Mu or ΠΓΜ is the oldest and preeminent honor society in the social sciences. It is also the only interdisciplinary social science honor society. It serves the various social science disciplines which seek to understand and explain human behavior and social relationships as well as their...	Social Sciences
Pi Kappa Lambda Pi Kappa Lambda Pi Kappa Lambda is an American honor society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors of music. There are currently 205 active chapters and approximately 64,500 individual members....	Music
Pi Omega Pi	Business Education
Pi Sigma Alpha Pi sigma alpha Pi Sigma Alpha , the National Political Science Honor Society, is the only honor society for college and university students of political science in the United States. Its purpose is to recognize and promote high academic achievement in the field of political science...	Political Science
Pi Tau Sigma Pi Tau Sigma Pi Tau Sigma is an International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society. Pi Tau Sigma's core values are:*Integrity ,*Service , and...	Mechanical Engineering
Pi Theta Epsilon	Occupational Therapy
Psi Beta	Psychology at Two-Year Colleges
Psi Chi Psi Chi Psi Chi is the International Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. With over 1,050 chapters, Psi Chi is one of the largest honor societies in the United States...	Psychology
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Sigma Beta Delta	Business, Management, and Administration
Sigma Delta Pi Sigma Delta Pi Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society , was established on November 14, 1919, at the University of California at Berkeley. Its insignia is the royal seal of Fernando and Isabel, representing Castille, León and Aragón...	Spanish
Sigma Lambda Alpha Sigma Lambda Alpha honor society Sigma Lambda Alpha is a scholastic honor society recognizing academic achievement among students in the field of Landscape Architecture....	Landscape Architecture
Sigma Lambda Chi	Construction Management Technology
Sigma Pi Sigma Sigma Pi Sigma Sigma Pi Sigma is the National Physics Honor Society. It strives to promote physics at all stages, to promote fraternity between those who excel at physics, and to promote service among its members. It is closely associated with the Society of Physics Students .- External links :*...	Physics
Sigma Tau Delta Sigma Tau Delta Sigma Tau Delta is an international collegiate honor society for students of English. It presently has over 800 active chapters located in Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and 1 chapter in the Middle East , with more than 1,000 faculty sponsors...	English
Sigma Theta Tau Sigma Theta Tau The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International exists to improve the health of people by increasing the scientific base of nursing research...	Nursing
Tau Alpha Pi	Engineering Technology
Tau Beta Pi Tau Beta Pi The Tau Beta Pi Association is the oldest engineering honor society in the United States and the second oldest collegiate honor society in America. It honors engineering students who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to personal and professional integrity...	Engineering
Tau Sigma Delta	Architecture and Allied Arts
Theta Alpha Kappa Theta Alpha Kappa Theta Alpha Kappa is the national honor society for Religious Studies and Theology. It was founded in 1976 at Manhattan College in Riverdale , New York for the purpose of recognizing the academic achievements of religion and theology students...	Religious Studies / Theology
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Upsilon Pi Epsilon Upsilon Pi Epsilon : International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, is the first and only existing one of its kind....	Computing and Information Disciplines

External links

• Association of College Honor Societies website
• Searchable database of ACHS member society chapters
• ACHS member Honor Cord Registry