Classes should be only the beginning of your education. We strongly encourage you to join one or more student organizations, because they’re excellent for professional development as well as social and business connections.
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Alpha Kappa Psi: This professional business fraternity promotes service and education.
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American Marketing Association: This organization provides students an opportunity to increase their professionalism and awareness of the marketing process.
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American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS): The student chapter of APICS serves as a bridge between academia and the business community.
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Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP): Ball State maintains a student chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
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Ball State Accounting Club: The club helps accounting majors and potential accounting majors obtain information about available career opportunities.
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Beta Alpha Psi (finance): Beta Alpha Psi is a national scholastic and professional fraternity for financial information professionals.
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Beta Gamma Sigma (business administration): The purpose of Beta Gamma Sigma is to encourage and reward scholarship and accomplishment among students of business and administration; to promote the advancement of education in the art and science of business; and to foster integrity in the conduct of business operations.
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Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO): This organization promotes entrepreneurial awareness and education while serving the developmental needs of students entrepreneurs.
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Delta Sigma Pi: This professional fraternity fosters the study of business in universities, encourages scholarship, promotes closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and furthers a higher standard of commercial ethics.
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Financial Management Association/Investment Club: This organization assists in the professional, educational, and social development of college students interested in finance, banking, and investment.
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Gamma Delta Pi (economics): Gamma Delta Pi, the economics club at Ball State University, was established to promote the understanding and appreciation of the science of economics.
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Gamma Iota Sigma (insurance, risk management, actuarial science): Gamma Iota Sigma’s aim is to promote, encourage, and sustain student interest in insurance, risk management, and actuarial sciences as professions.
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Phi Gamma Nu: The purposes of Phi Gamma Nu are to foster the study of business in colleges and universities and to uphold the interests of alma maters through the encouragement of high school scholarship, participation in school activities, and the association of students for their mutual advancement.
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Pi Omega Pi (business education): This organization is engaged in business teacher education, aiming to establish a fellowship among teachers of business subjects.
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Pi Sigma Epsilon (sales, marketing, management): Pi Sigma Epsilon is the only professional sales, marketing, and management fraternity on campus, but membership is open to students in any major. This organization offers practical experiences to students through active involvement in sales and marketing projects, research, professional programs, community service, social events, and chapter operations. Membership dues are also paid for by the H.H. Gregg Center for Professional Selling if you are a sales major.
You can also build connections through university-wide student organizations, which appeal to a wide variety of interests.