Alpha Beta Gamma () is an international business honor 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 business honor society to recognize and encourage scholarship of students in business curricula at two-year community and technical colleges. Its founders were college and university professors, administrators, and representatives of existing honor societies.
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.
By 2011, it had chartered 179 chapters and had initiated 69,940 members. Alpha Beta Gamma joined the Association of College Honor Societies in 1996. In 1998, the society amended its constitution to allow chapters in Canada and Mexico.
Alpha Beta Gamma's national headquarters is at 75 Grasslands Road in Valhalla, New York. As of 2024, it has initiated more than 80,000 members.
Symbols Alpha Beta Gamma's colors are black and red. It has regalia for members and faculty. Its advisor's stole is red satin and had the society's emblem, Greek letters, and gold tassels. Its member's honor stole is sapphire blue with the society's emblem and Greek letters. Members may also wear a silver honor cord. Members also received a gold-tone lapel pin. Its publication is The Honors Journal.
Activities Alpha Beta Gamma holds an annual leadership convention that includes elections, lectures, and seminars. The society offers annual scholarships for its members and presents annual chapter awards. It also has an annual essay competition for student members. Its 2025 national service project is helping the Red Cross with blood drives, with each chapter hosting a campus blood drive. In addition, some chapters conduct community service projects.
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. The student must rank in the top 35 percent of their class and have a 3.0 GPA in business courses and overall. The student must have completed fifteen credit hours with at least twelve hours of taken in courses leading to a degree.
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.
Chapters Following are some of the 181 chapters of Alpha Beta Gamma, with active chapters in bold and inactive chapters and institutions in italics.
ChapterCharter date and rangeInstitutionLocationStatusAlpha1970Manchester Community CollegeManchester, ConnecticutActiveBeta197x ?Lincoln Land Community CollegeSpringfield, IllinoisInactiveGamma197x ?Vincennes UniversityVincennes, IndianaActiveDelta1970Westchester Community CollegeValhalla, New YorkActiveEta197x ?Germanna Community CollegeOrange, VirginiaInactiveKappa197x ?Housatonic Community College Connecticut State Community College HousatonicBridgeport, ConnecticutActiveLambdaHinds Community CollegeRaymond, MississippiActiveMu197x ?Suffolk County Community College, Michael J. Grant Campus Brentwood, New YorkActiveNuFinger Lakes Community CollegeCanandaigua, New YorkActiveXiQueensborough Community CollegeBayside, Queens, New York City, New YorkActiveSigma197x ?Abraham Baldwin Agricultural CollegeTifton, GeorgiaInactiveTau19xx ?–1992Mattatuck Community CollegeWaterbury, ConnecticutMovedUpsilonManor CollegeAbington Township, PennsylvaniaInactiveChiSuffolk County Community College, Ammerman CampusSeldon, New YorkActiveOmega19xx ?–2008Brooks CollegeLong Beach, CaliforniaInactiveAlpha OmicronConnecticut State Community College Quinebaug ValleyDanielson, ConnecticutActiveAlpha TauDiablo Valley College, San Ramon CampusSan Ramon, CaliforniaAlpha PhiCoastline CollegeOrange County, CaliforniaInactiveAlpha Psi1992Del Mar CollegeCorpus Christi, TexasActiveAlpha Omega2008Southwestern Community College Sylva, North CarolinaActiveBeta AlphaSuffolk County Community College, Eastern CampusNorthampton, New YorkActiveBeta Beta1982Vincennes University, Jasper CenterJasper, IndianaInactiveBeta OmicronNorthern Essex Community CollegeHaverhill and Lawrence, MassachusettsActiveBeta SigmaCollege of the CanyonsSanta Clarita, CaliforniaActiveBeta Tau – 20xx ?Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Jackson County CampusGautier, MississippiInactiveBeta TauChowan CollegeMurfreesboro, North CarolinaInactiveBeta UpsilonKirkwood Community CollegeCedar Rapids, IowaInactiveGamma PhiRowan College of South JerseySewell, New JerseyActiveDelta ZetaDutchess Community CollegePoughkeepsie, New YorkActiveDelta Lambda2000Carroll Community CollegeWestminster, MarylandActiveDelta OmicronRaritan Valley Community CollegeBranchburg, New JerseyActiveDelta Tau1993Black Hawk CollegeMoline, IllinoisActiveDelta Phi – 2018Art Institute of California Orange CountySanta Ana, CaliforniaInactiveZeta Beta2008City College of San FranciscoSan Francisco, CaliforniaActiveEta DeltaDelaware Technical Community CollegeDover, Georgetown, Stanton, and Wilmington, DelawareActiveEta MuBunker Hill Community CollegeBoston, MassachusettsActiveEta SigmaCommunity College of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaEta ChiLee CollegeBaytown, TexasActiveTheta ZetaOrange Coast CollegeCosta Mesa, CaliforniaActiveIota ZetaDanville Community CollegeDanville, VirginiaActiveIota LambdaSanta Ana CollegeSanta Ana, CaliforniaActiveIota Upsilon2003Cumberland County CollegeVineland, New JerseyActiveKappa RhoBryant & Stratton CollegeOrchard Park, New YorkActiveKappa UpsilonNorth Central Missouri CollegeTrenton, MissouriActiveChi GammaMount Wachusett Community CollegeGardner, MassachusettsActiveChi Zeta2024Athens Technical CollegeAthens, GeorgiaActiveChi Mu19xx ?Three Rivers CollegePoplar Bluff, MissouriActive1971 ?Berkshire Community CollegePittsfield, MassachusettsInactive Bronx Community CollegeBronx, New York City, New YorkActiveCollege of San MateoSan Mateo, CaliforniaActiveConnecticut State Community College Naugatuck ValleyWaterbury, ConnecticutActiveDallas College North Lake Campus stationIrving, TexasActiveGeorgia State University Dunwoody CampusDunwoody, GeorgiaActiveHopkinsville Community CollegeHopkinsville, Kentucky2024Horry-Georgetown Technical CollegeConway, South CarolinaActiveHoward Community CollegeColumbia, MarylandActive2021Massasoit Community CollegeBrockton, MassachusettsActiveMontgomery CollegeMontgomery County, MarylandActiveNapa Valley CollegeNapa, CaliforniaActive1992 ?Connecticut State Community College Naugatuck ValleyWaterbury, ConnecticutActiveOcean County CollegeOcean County, New JerseyActiveOrange Coast CollegeCosta Mesa, CaliforniaActivePost CollegeWaterbury, ConnecticutInactiveTri-County Community CollegeMurphy, North CarolinaActive197x ?–1977Wingate CollegeWingate, North CarolinaInactive
Notable members
Mallika Srinivasan, chairman and managing director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited
See also Honor cords Honor society Professional fraternities and sororities
References
External links Official Website