Membership Requirements for Seniors

GPA Requirement

Cumulative UO grade-point average (GPA) of ≥3.90
or ≥3.80 if the last five terms’ GPA is ≥4.00.
- In computing the last-five-term GPA, any term is counted in which a student has earned 9 credits or more of A, B, C, D, or F grades.

≥164 credits completed by the beginning of the spring term of the election.
Five terms and ≥85 credits completed at the UO before the term in which the election is held.
≥44 upper-division liberal credits in UO courses of at least 3 credits each.
- No more than 8 of these 44 credits shall be elective pass/no pass (P/N), i.e., P without an asterisk
- at least two breadth courses outside the major subject code must be taken for letter grades.

Distribution among the 44 upper-division liberal credits must meet one of the following three criteria:
- at least three courses in each of two groups that correspond to the three undergraduate core-education groups (arts and letters, social science, science) or
- at least three courses in one of these groups and two courses in each of the other two or
- at least three courses in each of two subject codes in one group and two courses in a third subject code in any group.
  - Although some upper-division liberal courses with the same subject code belong to two different groups, only the courses from one of those groups can be counted for breadth.

Good character and no official findings of responsibility for academic misconduct.

Transcripts evaluated by the committee code all UO upper-division courses as “liberal” and “non-liberal” for the purposes of breadth.
Students are encouraged to schedule an appointment for an informal evaluation of their transcript prior to and during their senior year to learn how their upper-division courses are classified for the purposes of Phi Beta Kappa breadth analysis.
- Contact us at pbk@uoregon.edu to schedule an appointment
Fulfillment of the minimum requirements does not guarantee election to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.