WHY JOIN?
MEMBER BENEFITS
- • leadership development + scholarship opportunities
- • a brotherhood that will last a lifetime
- • access to chapter resources (makerspace, gym, free laundry, textbooks, study spaces, etc.)
- • a network of brothers who can assist in academic, professional or personal development
- • a network of experienced alumni for guidance
- • in-house brothers receive room in Boston for much cheaper than campus pricing
- • proximity to a number of dining, entertainment, and shopping locations
- • free summer storage
- • many brotherhood/social events a semester
- • hundreds of $ in savings for summer rent
- • a home away from home
WHY BETA OVER OTHERS?
You may be wondering about this question. It's best to ask a brother, but here's a few key points to satisfy your curiosity:
1. The Beta Upsilon chapter's dues for both in-house and out-of-house brothers are generally cheaper than those of other fraternities. For a costly university like MIT, every bit counts.
2. Beta has a substance-free policy. While each brother may do as he please (without endangering themselves), alcohol and other substances are not sponsored by the fraternity or permitted in fraternity events. So, instead of your money going to drinks and huge parties, your dues go back into the brotherhood with a focus on building meaningful relationships.
3. Men of Principle. That's who we continually strive to be. Regardless of our differences in interest as makers, gamers, bakers, etc., we constantly uphold our 5 core values: Mutual Assistance, Intellectual Growth, Trust, Responsible Conduct, and Integrity.
NOTABLE ALUMNI
Beta Upsilon
MIT produces many successful people every year. Obviously. But the Beta Upsilon chapter of Beta Theta Pi have produced some of the most notorious. Ignoring the many, many brothers that end up working for top companies or even founding their own, we present an astronaut (not a noobie, but a Commander) and the Koch brothers (yes, the one's with an MIT building and MIT cancer research institute named after them).
Charles Koch
MIT '57
Chairman/CEO of Koch Industries
David Koch
MIT '62
Executive VP of Koch Industries
Kenneth D. Cameron
MIT '71
Former Space Shuttle Commander
National
The Fraternity is proud to claim among its members the 17th Vice President of the United States, the 17th Prime Minister of Canada, nearly 200 members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives – including two Speakers of the House, eight U.S. Supreme Court Justices, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, 32 ambassadors, 52 governors to 30 states, two Canadian Premiers, six Congressional Medal of Honor recipients and seven Presidential Medal of Freedom honorees, 34 Olympic gold medalists, three Nobel Prize winners, 85 Rhodes Scholars, 12 Pulitzer Prize winners and many more.
John Warnock
Utah '61
Co-founder, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Bill Bowerman
Oregon '65
Co-founder, Nike
Sam Walton
Missouri '40
Founder and Chairman, Walmart