Honor Societies

Vermont Tech students may qualify for membership in the following national honor societies:

Phi Theta Kappa is a national honor society formed to recognize and encourage scholarship, academic excellence, leadership, and service among two-year college students.

Requirements for candidacy:

3.5 cumulative GPA with no incomplete grades
Sophomore status
Must be working toward an associate degree with a minimum of 12 credits completed at Vermont Tech

Tau Alpha Pi is the national honor society for associate and baccalaureate degree
students in engineering technology. Its purpose is to recognize academic excellence in fields of engineering technology study and to encourage a lifetime commitment to learning and scholarship.

Requirements for candidacy:

Cumulative GPA of 3.5 with no incomplete grades
Minimum of 24 credits completed at Vermont Tech while in an engineering technology program

Engineering technology students with more than 48 credits may be considered with a 3.3 or better cumulative GPA.

Sigma Phi Alpha is the national honor society for dental hygiene students. It was formed to recognize, promote, and honor outstanding scholarship, service, and character among students or graduates of dental hygiene schools in the U.S. and Canada. Second year dental hygiene students who rank highest in scholarship and character and who exhibit potential for future growth are, upon recommendation of the full-time dental hygiene faculty, elected to this prestigious group. Membership is limited to ten percent of the graduating class.