The Rutgers College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elects outstanding juniors and seniors with the following credentials:

• Students must be pursuing a liberal arts major. Liberal arts majors are identified by an asterisk (*) in the majors list (see degree requirements).
• Students must have demonstrated proficiency in a foreign language at the second semester intermediate level, either by completing the fourth semester of a foreign language at Rutgers or its equivalent at another institution, or by placing into a 200-level course (300 level for Russian) on the foreign language placement test.
• Students must have no record of disciplinary action.
• To be nominated in the junior year, students must have completed 60 credits at Rutgers by the end of the fall semester of the junior year and must have a cumulative average of 3.800 or above.
• To be nominated in the senior year, students must have completed 60 credits at Rutgers by the end of the fall semester of the senior year and must have a cumulative average of 3.500 or above.