About Golden Key

Golden Key International Honour Society is a non-profit, international academic honors association. The society began in 1977, at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, where the international headquarters is now located.

Today Golden Key has grown to more than 280 major colleges and universities in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia. There are over 800,000 lifetime members and 11,000 honorary members in the organization.

Golden Key recognizes the top 15% of juniors and seniors in all undergraduate fields. In the 1999-2000 academic year, the Colorado State University chapter, which was chartered in 1985, sent invitations to 1,341 juniors and seniors who have a GPA of 3.4 or above, placing them in the top 15% of students at CSU.

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