- Founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
- An international organization with over 188,900 initiated members from 130 chapters in the United States and Canada.
- Has over 90 alumni associations in cities throughout the United States and Canada.
- Beta awards over $100,000 in Leadership-Scholarship Awards for undergraduates and graduate members.
- More than 80 Rhode Scholars a
re Betas - more than any other Fraternity. Eight Rhodes Scholars have graduated from our chapter; more than any other chapter.
- Colours of the fraternity are "Delicate shades of Pink and Blue"; after the sunset and sunrise.
- Our symbol is The Dragon.
- Fraternity flower: The Rose.
- The Beta Theta Pi "Upon These Principles" Foundation has completed a capital campaign, raising 20.1 million dollars to endow all leadership programs offered to undergraduates and alumni volunteers. This is the largest capital campaign ever in all fraternity history. At nine o'clock in the evening of the eighth day of the eighth month of the year 1839, eight young men, all students at Miami University in Oxford Ohio, held the first regular meeting of Beta Theta Pi in the Hall of the Union Literary Society, an upper room in the old college building known as "Old Main." Beta Theta Pi became the sixth Greek letter fraternity and the first to originate west of the Allegheny Mountains. Ohio was then a western state making Miami a frontier school. Beta Theta Pi, drawing upon these roots on the frontier, was in every sense a pioneer fraternity, with the enthusiasm, courage, hope, foresight and determination so characteristic of this untouched region. A leader in the Greek movement, Beta was the first fraternity to adopt a truly national point of view with a determination to be represented in all sections of the U.S. and ultimately, now, throughout Canada as well. This pioneering spirit saw Beta Theta Pi become the first fraternity to locate a chapter west of the Mississippi River, the first fraternity to enter 13 different states and 34 times entered an institution as the first chapter of any fraternity. In the last 160 years Beta Theta Pi has grown from eight dedicated young men at Miami University to more than 190,000 initiated brothers around the world. Beta is now among the top 20% of college fraternities in size, with 133 chapters in the United States and Canada.
