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	Phi Beta Kappa Kappa of Illinois at Loyola University of Chicago

Kappa of Illinois Membership Criteria

General:

Stipulation 1:

Eligible students shall be candidates for a bachelor's degree to include at least 90 credits of coursework in the liberal arts and sciences. Work of an "applied or professional" nature is not counted towards the required number of liberal arts credits or for computing the liberal arts grade point average.

Stipulation 2:

Weight shall be given to the breadth and depth of study in liberal arts and sciences.

Stipulation 3 effective Spring 2015:

Candidates shall have demonstrated, by successful work in high school or college, or in the two together, a knowledge of a second or non-native language at least minimally appropriate for a liberal education. In no case shall this mean less than the completion of the intermediate college level in a second, or non-native, language, or its equivalent.

Stipulation 4 effective Spring 2015:

The candidate's undergraduate record shall include at least one course in college-level mathematics, logic, or statistics, with content appropriate to a liberal arts and sciences curriculum. The course should introduce the student to mathematical ideas, abstract thinking, proofs, and the axiomatic method.

Stipulation 5:

In keeping with the Founders' interest in fostering not only academic excellence but also friendship and morality, invitation to Phi Beta Kappa should be extended only to persons of good moral character.

Juniors:

• 5 semesters completed of college work and registered for the 6th.
• 75 hours of course work completed, 60 of those hours at Loyola University Chicago, registered for 90 hours by the 6th semester of course work, at least 75% of which are in liberal arts.
• 3.90 cumulative GPA and 3.90 liberal arts GPA.

Seniors:

• Candidate shall have graduated at the January commencement or be scheduled for graduation at the May commencement during the year of election.
• 90 semester hours of course work at Loyola University Chicago, 90 semester hours in liberal arts courses. (Please check the Classification of Course work as Liberal Arts & Sciences Work.)
• 3.80 cumulative GPA and 3.80 liberal arts GPA.

N.B. for election to the Kappa chapter, both juniors and seniors must be presented for election and voted on by Loyola University Chicago Phi Beta Kappa members. Satisfying the membership criteria listed above guarantees nomination, but does not guarantee that the student will be elected to the society. This occurs only when the student is elected by a vote of the chapter's electoral body.

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Last updated on 14-Mar-23 at 11:27 CDT by Ronald Greenberg (rig at cs.luc.edu)