Student Organizations

Membership in a number of professional and honorary business organizations are available to students. The following organizations are open to students majoring in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business.

Alpha Kappa Psi

Alpha Kappa Psi promotes leadership, takes on projects, and develops additional skills needed for the professional business environment.  Activities include:  meetings, professional speakers, business tours, and networking with business people from around the country.

Eligibility: Business majors and minors with a 2.5 or higher cumulative GPA.

Sponsor: David A. Foote

Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)  

AITP assists students in preparing for careers in information systems fields.  Activities include:  professional speakers, leadership workshops, business tours, and job search assistance.  

Eligibility: Computer Information Systems and Computer Science majors and minors.  

Sponsors: Judy D. Holmes and Charles H. Apigian

Beta Alpha Psi  

Beta Alpha Psi introduces students to the professional side of Accounting.  Activities include:  meetings with professional speakers, community service projects, site visits to accounting firms and other businesses.

Eligibility: Accounting majors with at least 3.0 GPA cumulatively and at least 3.0 GPA in Accounting.

Sponsors: G. Robert Smith, Jr.  

Beta Gamma Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma is the honor society for business programs accredited by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Membership is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in an undergraduate or master's program at a school accredited by AACSB International.

Eligibility: The academic ranking of business majors being considered must place them in the upper 7 percent of the junior class, upper 10 percent of the senior class, or upper 20 percent of the graduating master's class.

Sponsor: E. Dwight Bullard

Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization

CEO promotes interest in entrepreneurship and encourages enterprise creation.  Activities include:  National CEO Conference, chapter meetings, professional speakers, local/regional/state/national networking opportunities, community service, and social activities.

Eligibility: MTSU students, MTSU faculty, and MTSU staff members who accept the purpose of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization and subscribe to its creed.

Sponsor: Marsha O. Smith

Economics Club

The Economics Club serves economics all economics majors. Omicron Delta Epsilon (ODE) Kappa Chapter of Tennessee is an international honor society in economics. ODE fosters closer ties between students and economics faculty and promotes the economics profession.

Eligibility: All economics majors may join the Economics Club. To become a member of ODE, a student must have earned 12 semesters in economics with a 3.0 or higher GPA.

Sponsors: Bichaka Fayissa

Financial Management Association (FMA)  

FMA promotes an appreciation of finance as a profession.  Affiliate of the International FMA Association.  Activities include:  speakers, field trips, and social activities.  

Eligibility: Anyone interested in Finance.

Sponsor: Franklin A. Michello  

Gamma Iota Sigma

Gamma Iota Sigma is a professional fraternity organized to promote, encourage, and sustain interest in insurance as a profession; encourage high moral and scholastic attainments; and facilitate the interaction and cooperation of educational institutions, industry, and professional organizations.  Activities include:  speakers, contact with the Insurance industry, scholarship opportunities, and internship and career opportunities.

Eligibility: Insurance majors, minors, and anyone interested in Insurance.  

Sponsor: Kenneth W. Hollman

Institute of Management Accountants  

The Institute of Management Accountants provides members personal and professional development opportunities through education, association with business professionals, and certification in management accounting and financial management skills.  The chapter meets twice a month and generally has speakers from the accounting or finance departments of a corporation in Nashville or Murfreesboro.  

Eligibility: Anyone interested; College of Business majors and minor are encourage to attend.

Sponsor: Jeannie J. Harrington 

Phi Beta Lambda  

Phi Beta Lambda has the specific goals of developing capable, aggressive business leadership, strengthening the confidence of individuals in themselves and their work, creating more interest in and understanding of American business enterprise, developing character, preparing individuals for useful citizenship, and facilitating the transition from school to work.  The mission of PBL is to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs.  Activities include the following:  monthly meetings, speaker meetings, community service, regional/state/national leadership training, state/national competitive events, and social activities.  

Eligibility: Anyone interested in Business (do not have to be a business major or minor).  

Sponsor: Martha E. Balachandran and K. Virginia Hemby-Gregg

Pi Sigma Epsilon  

Pi Sigma Epsilon is a national professional fraternity for students (also alumni, faculty, & professionals) interested in sales and marketing.  Activities include:  speaker meetings, business tours, sales projects, community/school service projects, social activities, mock interviews and salesperson for a day with “Sales and Marketing Executives of Nashville” organization.  

Eligibility: All majors with a 2.0 GPA or higher.

Sponsors:  Katie J. Kemp 

Society for Human Resource Management  

The MTSU-MBA Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management assists students in preparing for careers in human resource management fields.  Activities include:  professional speakers, leadership workshops, business tours, and job search assistance.  

Eligibility: Select seniors with interest in Human Resource Management.

Sponsor: Marc G. Singer 

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)  

SIFE is a global, not-for-profit education organization that is improving the quality of life and standard of living around the world by teaching the principles and values of market economics. Working in partnership with business and higher education, SIFE organizes and motivates teams of university students who teach others an understanding of these principles and values.

Eligibility: To joining the SIFE team, contact the sponsor.

Sponsor: Laura Buckner