Since our founding in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has celebrated excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and championed freedom of thought. As America’s most prestigious academic honor society, we are uniquely equipped to advocate for the value and benefits of liberal arts and sciences education.

Phi Beta Kappa was a secret society to protect its members and to instil a sense of solidarity. The new society was given the motto, Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτη or in Latin letters Philosophia Biou Kybernētēs, which loosely translated to English means "Love of learning is the guide of life".

2022年5月2日 · Phi Beta Kappa is a prestigious scholastic organization that requires an invitation to join. Once people enter the organization, they become members forever.

2011年6月1日 · An invitation to join Phi Beta Kappa recognizes and honors exceptional academic achievement in the arts and sciences. Only students at a college or university may be inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. Membership is invitation-only and contingent upon fulfillment of …

Phi Beta Kappa is the key that opens doors to lifelong opportunity. Since 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has championed education in the arts and sciences, fostered freedom of thought, and recognized academic excellence.

2024年11月29日 · Phi Beta Kappa, leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S., it was founded in 1776 as a secret literary and philosophical …

Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts at Harvard College was established under a charter dated December 4, 1779. The charter was granted, along with one for Yale, by the original society founded three years earlier at the College of William and Mary in Virginia.

4 天之前 · Founded on December 5, 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's most prestigious academic honor society. It has chapters at 290 colleges and universities in the United States, nearly 50 alumni associations, and more than half a million members worldwide.

The celebrated Phi Beta Kappa key — the prototypical token of membership, now employed by many National Honor Societies founded thereafter. The letters ΦBK are an acronym from the Greek phrase: “Philosophia Biou Kubernetes,” or “Philosophy, the helmsman of life.”

Originally Phi Beta Kappa was a society of congenial spirits, similar in its basis of membership to a present-day fraternity and in the character of its meetings to a debating or literary club. As time passed, it tended more and more to become an honor society.