Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest honorary society in the United States, recently inducted 144 UNC students into UNC’s Alpha of North Carolina chapter of the society.
To be eligible, students must be undergraduates in college or professional degree programs.
Inductees must either have 75 hours of coursework completed with a grade point average of 3.85 or 105 hours of coursework completed in the liberal arts and sciences with a grade point average of 3.75.
Less than 1 percent of all college students qualify for the honorary society.
Of the 144 students inducted, 90 were from North Carolina, 44 were from out of state. Ten new inductees chose not to release their information.
Phi Beta Kappa has 280 chapters nationwide.
