Who has the best Campuses for Greek Life?
 

I was just wondering if your respective Universities are strong or weak in regards to greek life. I know we consider ourselves pretty strong at ISU (15 soror, 28 Fraternities) and although we are losing Alpha Xi Delta :( , hopefully we will not lose any more in the near future.

Also, our numbers are down.. is that a nationwide problem or just with us?

btw... - ISU = Iowa State Univ.

Well, IFC and Panhel has always been the same, but I think for the cultural GLOs, my campus is pretty dope.

2 Asian Frats, 3 Asian Sorors, 2 Latino Frats, 2 Latino Sorors, 1 Multicultural frat, 2 Multicultural Sorors, compose one council that's as strong as the other two, plus NPHC has gotten bigger.

I just wanna see more greek love at SDSU, for all the stuff we all do, we get hated on a lot too.

Stan...

My cousin Amber is an Alpha Gam up here at ISU, and if memory serves correctly she was dating a SDSU member. I think he was a Delta Sig. Maybe I'm wrong.

Kinda sucks what happened with the Delta sigs up here.

-Sean

Yep, that did suck.

SDSU, San Diego State?

I always thought that Syracuse University had a good campus for greeks although I was not a student there. I just visited a few times when we had a chapter. The houses were great and the campus seemed to support greeklife from a visitor's perspective. :)

Washington and Lee University = Best campus for Greeks on the Nation.

With a student body of only 1700:

15 IFC Fraternities
5 NPC Sororities
75% of women are Greek (Typical quota around 35)
80% of men are Greek (Typical pledge classes 10-20)

DePauw?
 

One of my very good friends attended DePauw University (in Indiana) her freshman year. She said about 80% of the student body was greek (don't know if those are 'official' stats or her estimate, tho.)

She didn't go greek there- most of her friends did. (But she transferred & went greek @ her second school, which was also my school. A school that was about 10-15% greek ). She also said that was pretty much the only social scene on campus. So even the few non-greeks could be spotted at parties.

From her stories it always sounded like a pretty pro-greek atmosphere.

stan, what happend at ISU. ?? If you have to PM me.

http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforums...te+Delta+Sigma

Here's a link to the original story. ISU ended up getting suspended or expelled I forget.

Just what we needed during a rebuilding process for our fraternity.

While DePauw has a high percentage of Greek students, I have heard that a lot of faculty at DePauw are very anti-Greek, precisely because it is so dominant.

Washington and Lee is a huge Greek school considering it is so small. My great uncle was a founder of Lambda Chi Alpha there in the 1920s.:D

Illinois
 

Well, I would say Illinois is a good place to be greek. Besides being the largest, we are extremely self-governing. I used to sit on the Vice Chancellor's Board of Sorority Affairs, and a good portion of the voting members were students.

That's SO awesome! The Lambda Chi's here are great. 6 years ago, they had 9 members, total, and were looking at losing their house/charter. Then they totally went out there and start rushing. Now they have an incredibly diverse group of guys, lots of international students and just really, really nice people that can find a home there. The pledge class from my year there (spring 2002) had 18 guys, second only to KA's 20, and we have the Alpha chapter of KA! One of the best Greek resurrection stories, ever!

Umm.. SFSU is pretty WEAK greek school we have 3 NPC sororities 3 NIC fraternities, one of which JUST got chartered after I think two years of being a colony. The largest group on campus I think has 45 people and NONE of the sororities have been at total in about 15 years until this semester AGD is at total for this semester. Only 2% of the school is greek. We do have MANY MANY multicultural options though. The local/ national multi cultural GLOs totally out number the "Traditional" frats/sorors affiliated with NPHC/NPC/NIC so I guess that is a cool thing about our greek system.

Our Greek System is still trying to grow. Right Now, the NPHC out numbered both NIC(us and TKE's) , NPC (AEPhi and Theta Phi Alpha), and the Locals ( Delta Omega Fraternity and Chi Delta Epsilon Sorority). overall, 7 fraternities and 7 sororities. we about between 1-2% of the CSU population that are members of the greek community.

well it deffinately isn't Clarion U of PA. The greek population on our campus has declined in the last year or so. Plus now we're having problems with whether to expand or not and if so who should we allow on campus

Mizzou seems to have a pretty strong greek system. About 25% of our undergrad population of around 25,000 people are Greek. We have 14 sororities, 25 or so fraternities, and to be totally honest I am not sure how many NPHC groups. :o
For the most part you either love greek life here or dislike it, at least that the way it seems to me. AXJules can probably explain it better than I can. :D

Greeks at Cornell
 

Cornell University has a very strong greek life. We have 13 NPC sororities, 38 IFC fraternities, and 14 MGLC houses. We even have some houses that are currently refounding on campus, so we are soon to be even bigger!

~ Lacey

LOL, considering that AGD has only been at SF State for 12 years it would have been hard for us to get total for the last 15. ;) I'm just kidding, I know what you meant.

I'm just glad that our Panhellenic is still working together. Things have vastly improved there since I rushed. We still have a lot to work on, though!

Actually FAB you covered it pretty well.
Mizzou is a pretty good place to be Greek. Only problems- we're a dry campus, and the year BEFORE I got here Greektown was still wet. Apparently our WET Greek stories are pretty legendary.....Also, the student paper has a serious vendetta against greeeks, and that kinda sucks...and there are no Latino GLO's that fully participate in the same activities that IFC and Panhel do. Not to mention NPHC- they're very active on campus, but for some reason traditionally "minority" groups aren' t included in Greek festivities. I just wish we were a more cohesive group.

Re: Greeks at Cornell
 

I visited Cornell when I was in college. Cornell has many beautiful houses. :)

Cornell University has a very strong greek life. We have 13 PC sororities, 38 IFC fraternities, and 14 MGLC houses. We even have some houses that are currently refounding on campus, so we are soon to be even bigger!

Our Alpha chapter is back at Cornell!!!! Ya'll ain't ready!!! The George Washington University is pretty pro greek. The administration wants to get the greek population up to 25%.
G-DUB!!!

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ME TOO!!!! I think it would be SO fun to get involved with these groups and do things like homecoming and Greek Week with them!! :) And I also wish our campus was still wet, that'd be so fun. :D

It's big at the University of Oklahoma. I forget how many IFC frats we have, but we have 12 NPC sororities and they're huge!!! Quota is almost up to 90 here. If you account for all the GLO's (including the multicultural frats and soror's), I would say that more than 33% of the population here is greek. I know that 25% of women here belong to a NPC sorority.

ahhh! thank you so much! you learn something new everyday!

Indiana University has a pretty strong greek system, despite the # of groups that we have lost in the last 3 years.

We have approximately 23 IFC (I say aprox. because so many groups re found each year, its hard to keep count) and we have 19 NPC sororities all of which are pretty big.

Also, we have 7 members of the Divine 9 (we lost Omega Psi Phi in the mid 90s and I think...but I'm not certain that we just lost Sigma Gamma Rho in the last 3 semesters, I havent seen or heard a peep from them in a while.)

We also have an Asian sorority and an Asian fraternity, as well as a Latino fraternity and 2 Latino sororities.

As diverse as IU is, we do not have any Multicultural fraternities or sororities. Maybe that's just a matter of initiative. But then again, our fraternities and even our sororities (IFC and NPC) are getting pretty diverse.

IU does not have local fraternities or sororities.

I think that only 20% of the school here is greek. But we do have 38,000 students. :D

Xp2k

Nebraska doesn't have any huge, attention grabbing participation numbers...just about 17% of the campus is greek.

However, I think we are one of the strongest Greek systems in the country based on the excellence of most chapters.
This past summer the Nebraska Chapters of Gamma Phi Beta, Chi Omega, Alpha Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, and Acacia all received their organization's highest award possible for a chapter. I also know that the chapters of Alpha Tau Omega and Delta Tau Delta are pretty highly decorated chapters among their international organizations, but I'm unsure of the awards they have received.

Having such high achievement by so many groups really raises the bar for what is being done by the entire greek community.

Such awards may not make Nebraska the best campus for Greeks, and there seems to be a vendetta against Greeks by the campus newspaper, despite the fact that I've met very few non-greek students who are opposed to the greek system.

Pike did as well.

did what?

Sorry, Pike at Nebraska won our top chapter award as well, Betarulz.

Thanks for the info KEPike, not surprising by any stretch.

UVa seemed like a good greek school when I visited. Great school. :)

Oklahoma State, where I was an undergrad., was a great greek school. 11 NPC and at least 15 IFC. I'm not as sure about NPHC and other orgs. Pledge classes average 50-60.

I am in grad. school at the University of Oklahoma and their system seems very strong too. They average more like 80-90 per pledge class I think.

Both are great places to go greek.

What about Penn State? When I think of a university that has a huge Greek population, PSU is the first thing that pops into my mind. Everyone I know who has ever gone to Penn State have joined houses.

Dance Marathon is slowly growing at my school, but it doesn't even compare to THON at PSU. It blows my mind at how successful it is each year, and that's due entirely to the hard working members of the Greek community at PSU.