The Forbes School of Business at Ashford University will graduate its first ever group of Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society inductees during the University’s commencement ceremony held on Sunday, May 1 at Viejas Arena, located at 5500 Canyon Crest Dr., San Diego, CA 92115. The graduating class includes 200 students who have excelled in business disciplines.

Sigma Beta Delta is an international honor society for students who have attained excellence in business programs at regionally accredited colleges and universities. The mission of the society is to encourage and recognize scholarship and accomplishment among students of business, management, and administration, and to encourage and promote aspirations toward personal and professional improvement and a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind. Membership in Sigma Beta Delta is the highest national recognition a business student can receive.

To be inducted into Sigma Beta Delta, business students must rank in the top 20 percent of their university’s junior, senior, or graduate class. Qualifying students must then be invited to join by the society’s faculty officers.

For more information on Sigma Beta Delta, visit http://sigmabetadelta.org/about-us/.

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