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I've always heard BSPhi referred to as a "non-Panhellenic" or "non-collegiate" sorority, which might be a little elitist on our part.
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On their home page, they descibe themselves as, "Beta Sigma Phi International is a non-academic sorority with 200,000 members in chapters around the world." So I don't think it's a label we stuck onto them. It's "non-collegiate," I think, because when the average person thinks of a sorority, they think of college, not adult women, so they need to distinguish themselves. BSP does not care if a members went to college or not, and most members are not currently college women (there are exceptions). "Non-Panhellenic" is a little less useful, because that also describes the sororities of the NPHC, the MCGLOs, and the locals ... which are all "collegiate."
But if I any member of BSP tells me that they don't like "non-collegiate" or "non-academic," I'll drop the term like a hot potato.