List of Phi Beta Kappa chapters
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Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.[1] It was founded at the College of William & Mary in December 1776.[2] In the following list, active chapters are indicated in bold and inactive chapters and institutions are in italics.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
- The numbering system indicated order of charter. However, in 1922, the Catalogue of the Cornell Chapter renumbers the chapter, excluding the Alpha of Alabama which had gone extinct during the Civil War.
- The Alpha chapter at Harvard and the Iota chapter at Radcliffe merged as the Alpha-Iota chapter of Massachusetts at Harvard University, effective June 1995.
- Established at Western Reserve College
- Chapter was disbanded at the outbreak of the Civil War.
- Chapter was formed at Randolph Macon Women's College, now Randolph College.
- The college closed in 2024
- Chapter's installation was between March 4 and 5, 1935
- Chapter was installed between February 17 and 18, 1938.
- Originally chartered as a section of Alpha of California.
- Chapter consolidated when the college merged with Lawrence University in 1964.
- Originally chartered as a section of Alpha of North Carolina on December 12, 1934