Golden Key has chapters at colleges and universities in Australia, The Bahamas, Canada, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States.[2] Membership into Golden Key is offered to undergraduate and graduate students recognized to be among the top 15% of their class by GPA.[3] Lifetime membership is given to those who pay a one-time fee, which was US$60 in 2002[3] and as of 2017[update] is US$95 in the United States.