Congratulations to our very own students, Jaxon Bennett and Stephen Shafer, for being elected to Phi Beta Kappa (ΦBK) this semester. This is quite an achievement as ΦBK is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the country and only a very select number of students at member institutions are elected annually.
Phi Beta Kappa membership is reserved for students who are completing a degree in the College of Arts and Sciences, including the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, The Media School, and the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.
There is no application process. Rather, Indiana University faculty members and staff who are themselves Phi Beta Kappa members elect students to membership. The Phi Beta Kappa executive committee holds elections twice a year and announces its decisions in November and March.
Undergraduates are considered for election once they have earned 90 graded hours (on IU’s academic advisement reports, graded hours are the equivalent of GPA hours) toward their bachelor’s degree. Only students who have earned at least 60 of the required 90 graded hours in courses on the IU Bloomington campus and who have maintained a 3.700 cumulative grade point average are eligible.
The College of Arts