· Founded in 1839 at Miami University in Ohio.
· An international organization with over 170, 000 initiated members from 130 chapters and colonies in the United States and Canada.
· Beta awards over $100,000 in leadership-scholarship awards to undergraduates and graduate members.
· More than 80 Rhodes Scholars are Betas - more than any other Fraternity.
· Colors of the fraternity are pink and blue Ð after the sunset and sunrise.
· Our symbol is the dragon.
· Fraternity flower: the june rose.
· The Beta Theta Pi Foundation is currently in the fourth year of a capital campaign, raising over $20 million to endow all leadership programs offered to undergraduates and alumni volunteers. This is the largest capital campaign ever undertaken by a men's college fraternity.

Since its inception as a colony in 1984, the Epsilon Theta chapter has remained one of the elite fraternities at MTSU. The chapter has attained one of the highest honors of all Beta chapters, The Francis H. Sisson Award, a total of nine times. Known campuswide for excellence in athletics, the highest standards of scholarship, leadership among peers, and just having a good time, Beta Theta Pi has made quite a mark on the campus of MTSU and looks into a bright future "making good men better" in Murfreesboro and nationwide.