Alpha Beta Gamma (ΑΒΓ) is an international businesshonor society established in 1970 in Manchester, Connecticut. It recognizes scholarship among students in business curricula at two-year community and technical colleges.
History
Alpha Beta Gamma was established in 1970 in Manchester, Connecticut, as an international businesshonor society to recognize and encourage scholarship of students in business curricula at two-year community and technical colleges.[1][2] Its founders were college and university professors, administrators, and representatives of existing honor societies.[3]
Its purpose to is recognize the academic achievement of business students amongst two-year college students and to support career opportunities, intellectual development, scholarship, leadership, and networking for these business students.[1]
By 2011, it had chartered 179 chapters and had initiated 69,940 members.[1]
Alpha Beta Gamma's national headquarters is at 75 Grasslands Road in Valhalla, New York.[1] As of 2024, it has initiated more than 80,000 members.[5]
Symbols
Alpha Beta Gamma's colors are black and red. It has regalia for members and faculty.[1] Its advisor's stole is red satin and had the society's emblem, Greek letters, and gold tassels.[6] Its member's honor stole is sapphire blue with the society's emblem and Greek letters.[6][7] Members may also wear a silver honor cord.[8][7] Members also received a gold-tone lapel pin.[8]
Alpha Beta Gamma holds an annual leadership convention that includes elections, lectures, and seminars.[1] The society offers annual scholarships for its members and presents annual chapter awards.[1] It also has an annual essay competition for student members.[9] Its 2025 national service project is helping the Red Cross with blood drives, with each chapter hosting a campus blood drive.[10] In addition, some chapters conduct community service projects.[11]
Membership
To be eligible for membership in Alpha Beta Gamma, a student must be enrolled in a business curriculum in a junior, community, or technical college, or a two-year accredited program within a college or university.[2] The student must rank in the top 35 percent of their class and have a 3.0 GPA in business courses and overall.[1] The student must have completed fifteen credit hours with at least twelve hours of taken in courses leading to a degree.[2]
Some of the recognized degrees include accounting, actuarial science, administration, advertising, agricultural and agroecology business, agricultural engineering technology, architecture and design construction technology, arts management, automotive technologies, aviation management, banking, biological science, biotechnology, broadcasting, business administration, casino management, civil construction technology, communications, computer information systems, conservation and regulations, construction management, cosmetology, criminal justice, culinary arts and management, cyber crime technology, dairy management, dental hygiene, digital filmmaking and video production, digital photography, drug and alcohol counseling, early childhood education, economics, elementary education, emerging technologies, energy management, entrepreneurship, exercise science, fashion design, fashion marking and management, finance, fire science technology, food service, game art and design, graphic design, health insurance claims management, health service administration, homeland security and emergency management, horticulture technology, hotel and hospitality management, human resource management, industrial design, industrial management and relations, information systems, interior design, international business, international studies, investments and securities, landscape and ornamental horticulture, legal professions, library science, management information systems, management science marketing research and management, media arts and animation, medical assisting and laboratory tech, medical coding and billing, mortuary science, motor vehicle technology, nuclear medicine, nursing, occupational health and safety, office technologies, operations research, physical therapy assistant, postal services management, public administration, public relations, range management, recreational management, restaurant management, secretarial science, small business management, sport management, supply chain management, surveying an geomatics engineering technology, systems analyst, taxation, textile engineering, theatre management, trade management, transportation management, travel and tourism, veterinary technology, visual and game programming, visual effects and motion graphics, visual and game programming, web design and interactive media, welding, and wildlife management.[2][7][11][12]
Chapters
Following are some of the 181 chapters of Alpha Beta Gamma, with active chapters in bold and inactive chapters and institutions in italics.
