Academic Honor Societies at St. Thomas Aquinas College
Elevating Excellence. Celebrating Achievement.
St. Thomas Aquinas College recognizes its highest-achieving students through a distinguished group of national and international academic honor societies. These societies celebrate undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement, scholarship, leadership, and dedication to their fields of study.
Honor societies at St. Thomas Aquinas College span disciplines including business, finance, education, mathematics, visual arts, foreign languages, social sciences, psychology, criminal justice, English, natural sciences, computer science, and athletics. Membership recognizes students who have distinguished themselves academically while connecting them with broader communities of scholars and professionals committed to excellence.
Each spring, the College celebrates academic excellence at its annual Honors Convocation, recognizing students being inducted into academic honor societies and acknowledging students who have earned Dean’s List distinction for their outstanding academic achievement.
Through these honors and traditions, St. Thomas Aquinas College celebrates students who pursue excellence, achieve at the highest levels, and exemplify what it means to Finish Ready.
Alpha Chi
Established at the College in 1973
A coeducational society whose purpose is to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students, the society honors those who achieve such distinction.
Alpha Mu Alpha
Established at the College in 2015
Since its inception in 1937, the American Marketing Association (AMA) has remained committed to the advancement of excellence in the field of Marketing. It was this commitment, which fostered the establishment of Alpha Mu Alpha in the spring of 1981. The national honorary is designed to recognize outstanding scholastic achievement in Marketing among qualified undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.
Alpha Phi Sigma
Established at the College in 2007
The national criminal justice honor society is dedicated to the recognition of scholarly achievement in the field of criminal justice.
Chi Alpha Sigma
Established at the College in 2007
A coeducational society established to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among student-athletes.
Delta Mu Delta
Established at the College in 1986
A coeducational society that promotes academic excellence and exemplary character among business administration graduate and undergraduate students and to honor those achieving such distinction.
Financial Management Association
Established at the College in 1974
An international honor society which specifically recognizes the achievement of finance majors and demonstrates their expertise in areas such as financial economics and decision making.
Kappa Delta Pi
Established at the College in 1987
An international honor society in education designed to promote excellence and to recognize outstanding contributions to education on the graduate and undergraduate level.
Kappa Mu Epsilon
Established at the College in 1987
A specialized honor society in mathematics, members are selected from students of mathematics and other closely related fields who have maintained standards of scholarship, have professional merit and have attained academic distinction.
Kappa Pi
Established at the College in 2026
Founded in 1911, Kappa Pi is an international art honor society and the oldest collegiate art fraternity. It connects art students and professionals while supporting high achievement in the visual arts. The organization promotes artistic excellence and community among students studying in art, design, and other creative visual programs. The St. Thomas Aquinas Lamba Upsilon chapter of Kappa Pi is in its first year at the College.
Phi Sigma Iota
Established at the College in 1988
An international foreign language honor society recognizing students for outstanding ability and attainment in the study and teaching of foreign languages. It seeks the promotion of cultural enrichment and a sentiment of amity from the use and knowledge of foreign languages.
Pi Gamma Mu
Established at the College in 1987
An international society encouraging excellence in social sciences among undergraduate and graduate students.
Psi Chi
Established at the College in 1998
An international society encouraging excellence in psychology among undergraduate and graduate students.
SALUTE
Established at the College in 2020
This National Honor Society recognizes military veteran students who uphold the pillars of Service, Academics, Leadership, Unity, and Excellence.
Sigma Tau Delta
Established at the College in 2003
An international honor society founded to confer distinction for high achievement in English language and literature, promote interest in literature and the English language, and to foster the discipline in all aspects, including creative and critical writing.
Sigma Zeta
Established at the College in 2012
Sigma Zeta is a national undergraduate honor society that encourages and fosters scholarly activity and recognizes academic scholarship in the natural sciences, biology, forensic science, computer sciences, and mathematics.