About Us

Founded August 8 th, 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Beta Theta Pi became the first fraternity established West of the Allegheny Mountains. The principles that Beta was founded on more than 150 years ago still hold true today: Mutual assistance in the honorable labors and aspirations of life, devotion to the cultivation of the intellect, unsullied friendship, and unfaltering fidelity -- these are held as objects worthy of the highest aim and purpose of all Betas. Beta Theta Pi continues to be a testament to its ideals of brotherhood and friendship as one of the oldest continually operating fraternities in the country. Beta counts more than 165,000 initiated members, 118,000 of whom are still living. Beta Theta Pi prides itself on recruiting outstanding young men and cultivating in them the highest standards of excellence. We welcome your inquiries.

Again, the Beta is distinguishable and distinguished from all other kinds of fraternity men whatsoever by just a little warmer and stronger, just a little tenderer and more enduring fraternity feeling than any of them can attain to. For it was always so. I do not in the least know how it happened, nor why it persisted after it happened, but a long time ago there came into Beta Theta Pi a fraternity spirit that was, and is, and apparently will continue to be, unique. — Willis O. Robb, Ohio Wesleyan 1879