Alpha Eta Rho is a collegiate fraternity founded to bring together those students having a common interest in the field of aviation. Started in 1929 at the University of Southern California, it has grown to over 70 chapters nationwide, pledging nearly 1,000 new members each year.

The fraternity serves as a contact between the aviation industry and educational institutions. It bands into one organization, outstanding students, interested faculty, and industrial leaders for the purpose of studying the problems of everyday life as influenced by this modern industry-aviation.

Alpha Eta Rho serves to actively associate interested students of aviation with leaders and executives in the industry. This close association, strengthened through the bonds of an international aviation fraternity, establishes opportunities for all members in their relation to aviation and inspires interest and cooperation among those in the profession who are also members of Alpha Eta rho.

Alpha Eta Rho continues to grow and serves as a lasting tribute to the farsighted understanding an vision of its founder, Professor Earl W. Hill.

The constitution of Alpha Eta Rho declares that the success of aeronautics depends upon its unified development in all the countries of the world and upon the cooperation of different phases of aviation with each other. It affirms its character to be international and declares eligibility for membership not dependent upon race, religion, nationality or sex.