Beta Theta Pi

Beta Facts

The Numbers

Over 190,000 initiated members; over 100,000 living members; over 7,000 undergraduate members on 142 campuses in the United States and Canada
Over 90 Alumni Associations in cities throughout the United States and Canada
Beta Theta Pi Leadership-scholarship awards total $70,000 annually for undergraduates and graduate members

Leaders

40 Beta Theta Pi members listed in Forbes Four Hundred list
A leader among College Fraternities with members listed in Who's Who in America and Canadian Who's Who
There was always a Beta on the Supreme Court from 1877 to 1975, including the late Justice William O. Douglas
Over 80 Rhodes Scholars

Innovators and Pioneers

First College Fraternity founded west of the Allegheny Mountains (1839)
First College Fraternity magazine founded 1872 and published continuously since
First College Fraternity to publish an open constitution for public distribution (1878)
First Fraternity established on 35 campuses
First Fraternity to establish a chapter west of Mississippi River (1866)
First Fraternity to adopt a national point of view with determination to be represented in all sections of the country
First Fraternity to require its chapters to maintain a 2.5 GPA to remain in good standing (1985)
First General Fraternity to establish a chapter in Hawaii (1992)
Among the first to organize a Fraternity into territorial districts (1873)

"The Founders valued integrity and its practice among the highest virtues of the brotherhood. Our founders had the right priority. "
-Frank Shrontz, Idaho 1953