Phi Beta Kappa recently inducted 138 UNC students.
The nation’s oldest college honorary society — known as Alpha of North Carolina at UNC — has 280 chapters nationwide.
Students must have completed 75 hours of coursework and maintained a 3.85 GPA or better to be eligible.
Students who have 105 course hours and a 3.75 GPA are also eligible.
Less than 1 percent of college students meet the organization’s qualification standards.
William McLeane is the president of UNC’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for the 2011-12 school year. Elise Stephenson is the vice president and Jarrard Cole is the secretary.
UNC inductees are from all across the country and China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United Kingdom.