On September 25, 2002 a group of students at Louisiana Tech founded the Association of Business, Engineering, and Science Entrepreneurs (ABESE) to promote creativity and imaginative thinking, to aid in meeting students' needs for starting a business and becoming entrepreneurs, and to serve as a link between students of diverse disciplines through research, academics, and social activity.
Accounting Society
The Accounting Society was organized in December, 1953, as a professional organization. The purpose of the society is to encourage higher standards of scholarship and develop a closer relationship among the accounting students, faculty, and businessmen.
Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)
AITP is the professional association comprised of career-minded individuals who seek to expand their potential--students, employers, employees, managers, programmers, and many others--in the information systems (IS) field. The organization seeks to provide ways for its members to make contacts with others in the IS field, all in an effort to become more marketable in rapidly changing, technological careers.
Alpha Kappa Psi
Eta Tau chapter of the professional national fraternity of Alpha Kappa Psi was chartered on January 14, 1999. The objects of Alpha Kappa Psi are to further the individual welfare of its members; to foster scientific research in the fields of commerce, accounts, and finance; to educate the public to appreciate and demand higher ideals therein; and to promote academic programs in business.
American Production and Inventory Control Society
The Louisiana Tech student chapter of APICS was established in 1987. APICS in an international organization with over 70,000 members. Their goal is to promote total quality, global competition, and innovative manufacturing principles and practices through educational programs, publications, certification programs and a foundation dedicated to education and research.
Beta Alpha Psi Fraternity: Annual Seminar
Alpha Chi chapter of the national fraternity of Beta Alpha Psi was established in May, 1956. Beta Alpha Psi is a national professional and honorary fraternity, the purpose of which is to encourage and foster the idea of service as the basis of the accounting profession; to promote the study of accountancy and its highest ethical standards; to develop high moral, scholastic, and professional attainments in its members; and to encourage cordial relations among its members and the profession.
Beta Gamma Sigma
Beta Gamma Sigma is the national honorary scholastic society for students in all fields of business. It is the scholastic society recognized by the Accreditation Council of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business . A school or college of business administration must be a member of the Accreditation Council of the AACSB in order to have a chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma. Membership in the society is highly prized as a badge of merit recognized by leading business administrators everywhere.
Business Students Association
The official student body organization of the College is the Business Students Association. The president of this association is the president of the student body of the College of Business. Dues are assessed each quarter, and the assessment is an official charge recognized by the College.
Delta Pi Epsilon
Delta Pi Epsilon is a national honorary professional graduate fraternity in business education. Scholarship, cooperation, and leadership in business education are the primary functions of the fraternity.
Delta Sigma Pi
Beta Psi chapter of the professional international fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi was chartered on May 15, 1948. The purpose of the fraternity is to foster the study of business, to encourage scholarship and the association of students, to promote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of business, to further a high standard of business ethics and culture, and to promote the civic and commercial welfare of the community.
Financial Management Association
Membership in the Financial Management Association is open to any student interested in a career in Finance, including Real Estate, Insurance, Banking, Investments, and Financial Management. The Club is devoted to the professional development of its members and to fostering improved relationship among students, faculty and professionals in the several areas of Finance.
American Marketing Association
The Louisiana Tech Marketing Club is a collegiate chapter of the American Marketing Association, the international organization for professional marketers. The club is open to any student interested in marketing; and the goals are to have personal, scholarly, and professional development of its members and to promote friendly relations among students, faculty, and the business community.
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Omicron Delta Epsilon is one of the nation's largest academic honor societies . It was established in January of 1963 as the result of the merger between two major honor societies, Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon. Membership is open to students who have a 3.0 or better grade point average, graduate students in the field of Economics, the Economics and Finance Department.
Sigma Iota Epsilon
Zeta chapter of Sigma Iota Epsilon was organized at Louisiana Tech and is an honorary and professional fraternity in the management field. Its purpose is to provide stimulation and incentive to students of management, to recognize their scholastic merit, and to foster management as a profession and the development of the professional attitude toward it.
Society for the Advancement of Management
The local chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management received its charter on January 24, 1948. The purpose of this society is to inspire students in business administration and to promote contact among individuals in the business world.
Society for Human Resource Management
The Louisiana Tech Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management was chartered in 1977. The organization is a worldwide professional association of personnel and industrial relations practitioners, university faculty members, and students. The programs and activities of the organization are designed to provide a professional enrichment for the student's academic experience.