Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the only national computer science honor society and has chapters all over the United States. It is for students and faculty who exhibit superior scholastic and professional achievement in the computing & information disciplines. It is also the only National Honor Society for the computing and information disciplines and recognized as such by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society.

The first UPE chapter was formed at Texas A&M University in 1967. The Beta Chapter in Virginia was formed in the spring of 1988 here in Radford University's Computer Science Department. As of 2015, there are now twelve chapters in Virginia, including schools such as Hampton University, George Mason, Christopher Newport, and the alpha chapter at Virginia Tech.