So to the person who was asking if all 21 sororities can keep busy: since there are 2+ fraternities for every sorority at Penn State - you do the math!

When I was there, there were 16 NPC sororities and about 50 fraternities - lots of competition to get sororities to agree to have socials with you, do Homecoming, do Greek Week, do THON.

Competition was a Good Thing, for the girls at least -- it meant REAL FOOD if a house had you over for a dinner social (not just a cook-out), mixed drinks (ah, better days) -- and the guys generally went all out for the occassion (dressed up, sent clean cars to transport us over there, etc.)

There was a apocryphal story that the social director for Phi Kappa Theta called one of the sorority social directors and asked her if the girls would be willing to come over for a social the next term. The story was that the sorority social director said "Phi Who?". Supposedly, that's why the fraternity got that nickname. May or may not be true, but with 50+ fraternites, could you blame her?

Don't know if this is even the question anymore, but FSU has 15 Panhellenic, 5 MGC and 3 NPHC sororities (I believe all 4 will be on campus before the semester is out).

happy valley K's look ggrreeeeeeaaattttt!!!!

I just wanted to add that Penn State also has 8 fraternities and sororities in its MGC.

Off topic i know, but this is how i think it should be. Guys competing for the womens attention. I personnally think guys do better (as far as my perspective is concerned) with a little health competition to get womens attention. That way they treat women like they should. I think that is the way life would be more often than it is in my life (at least).

So is the university of Penn the largest system? What about Florida?

Clarification: University of Pennsylvania (U of Penn or UPenn) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) are two separate and very different schools. Penn State is the one with a HUGE greek system. UPenn is an Ivy League.

University of Georgia

23 NIC
18 NPC
8 NPHC
5 AGLO (including one South Asian org)
2 Service (APO and GSS)
1 LGLO
1 Local Sorority
1 Christian Sorority
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59 Total GLOs

I couldn't even imagine going through recruitment with that many sororities. We have 4 and I was so tired by the end of each night... That must be complete insanity!!!

I cannot swear to it, but I think Penn St. goes hands down.

For those that worry about the numbers, it depends on may things.

1. # of Students.
2. Campus feeling towards Greeks, Penn., A+++++s
3. School feelings towards Greeks, again A +++++s.
4. % of Greeks compared to students.

I wish more Schools had the same working relation between them and Greeks.

It seems GLOs on Campus are working with each other in a more posotive way!:)

Thanks for the link. I hadn't heard any news about my alma mater's Greek system in quite a while. Sad to see some of the sororites aren't listed there anymore since I was there in the 80's. The ones that jump out at me: AXiD & ZTA. Makes me wonder what happened because they were pretty strong. As I recall, DPhiE & Tri-Sig's were struggling back then, so that's not too surprising. I had just hoped they could have turned things around considering how many students on that campus go greek.

According to the info I have, the University of Alabama has 15 NPC, 27 IFC and 7 NPHC organizations (4 sororities & 3 fraternies). There are some multi-culteral orgs, but I couldn't find a list so I'm not sure on their numbers. (I keep my sorority files next to my computer desk.) Here's the latest set of stats I have for 2003 and were distributed in 2004. Should be getting the 2004 stats any day now from Greek Life.

Total Student Enrollment = 15,892
Total Greek = 22% or 3,519
Total Womens Enrollment = 8,511
Greek Women = 25% or 2,151
Total Mens Enrollment = 7,381
Greek Men = 18.5% or 1,368

I believe Purdue also has a large number of NIC orgs. I worked witht eh exec VP of the NIC this summer at UIFI and I remember a bunch of people talking about it being one of the most successful Greek systems as far as being what it should be.
I also know the greek advisor at PSU and I just feel bad for her. Having all those NIC and NPC groups is not necessarily a good thing. There are tons of problems there to go with all those groups.

What is the "Divine 9?"

They are the NPHC orgs:

Alpha Phi Alpha
Kappa Alpha Psi
Omega Psi Phi
Phi Beta Sigma
Iota Phi Theta

Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta
Zeta Phi Beta
Sigma Gamma Rho

Out on the West Coast, I think University of Washington has the busiest Greek system.

There are 27 active fraternities. There were 29 but 2 are either kicked to the curb or suspended

Here is the link
http://depts.washington.edu/ovpsa/greek/fratstat.html

There are 16 sororities

Here is the link
http://depts.washington.edu/ovpsa/greek/sorstat.html

I think they also have SAI, TBS and SA. IF my info is correct-those three are very social and not just honorary/ professional. So, I would count them. But I know it is different on different campuses.....seems like something for everyone though!