Home Outstanding students in CAS have the opportunity to be recognized for their academic achievement. Working hard and doing well in college will not only earn you high honors at Pitt, but in your future career as well. Dean's List Early each term, CAS students whose grades in the preceding term indicate outstanding academic achievement are recognized on the Dean's List. Those members of a CAS graduating class who have attained an outstanding scholastic record and have taken at least 60 letter-grade credits while a resident in CAS are graduated with honors.
Many departments offer an honors major.
Successful completion of the honors major as well as normal graduation requirements leads to the awarding of the bachelor's degree with departmental honors. For detailed information, contact individual departments. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the national honorary society for students in the liberal arts and sciences. Founded in 1776, the Society has chapters only at the leading academic institutions in the United States. The University of Pittsburgh chapter was established in 1953 by charter from the United Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.