The National Beta Gamma Sigma Website Walton College of Business Student Organizations Beta Gamma Sigma is the academic honor society for business administration students. It was founded in 1913 and chartered on the University of Arkansas campus in 1932. Invitations to membership in the society may only be issued to the college's most outstanding students.
Doctoral students are eligible upon successful defense of the dissertation.
Faculty who are not already members may be invited to membership upon the conferral of tenure. At the University of Arkansas membership invitations are issued personally to students in class in February of each year. Students who are graduating in December may be invited in November. There is an annual initiation banquet, usually scheduled in March or April.