Largest Greek Life Campus?
 

This is inspired by some of the conversation on Carnations 'who's presenting' thread(wich I did not want to hijack) But does anyone know what college campus has the most ACTIVE amount of sororities? I know there is no campus that has all 26 NPC sororities, but is there a campus that has a large amount? And I am only refering to NPC organizations, not locals.

And do you think it is a beneficial thing to have that many organizations representing? Or would it be far to competitive? My school only had two NPC's (AOII & AGD) so I never experienced the cut-throatness of a long intense rush.

Wow, 20 is impressive. I actually thought it would be around 10 or less.

Penn State has 20 NPC's -- Since ariesrising beat me to it....here are the orgs :D


Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Phi Mu
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Zeta Tau Alpha

Indiana Univ. has quite a few, don't they?

According to their Greek Life website, Indiana has 26 sororities but only 19 are NPC sororities:

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Delta Tau
Zeta Tau Alpha

10 or less active NPC chapters at Penn State is impressive, or at one school is impressive??

-Edited to include Alpha Phi, which was omitted because of my stupidity!! :)

Miami University has 17 NPCs.

Actually, IU has 19 NPC sororities. Alpha Phi also has a strong chapter there.

Hi everybody, I've been lurking a bit, but I thought I'd pipe up when something came up that I actually have info to contribute on!

So now I commence my first post!

I was at Indiana University in the late 80's/early 90's. At one point during my college career, there were 22 of the 26 on campus!

All the ones listed above, plus SK, ASA, and Tri-Sigma. The first round of Rush was called 22-party, and it was a marathon for all concerned.

I counted 19 the first time, but then only typed 18... I was wondering how I'd lost one, but thought maybe I'd just counted incorrectly.

Sorry you guys!!

Yay another IU alum!

I was at IU in the early-mid 90s. :D (and again in 2001) All three of those sororities closed their chapters in 1994 or 1995.

There is a Greek Walk in the old part of campus with stones that have the names of all the fraternities and sororities (NPC, IFC and I think NPHC) that have ever had chapters at IU and their founding dates. IU has had chapters of 25 of the 26 NPC sororities at one point or another. AST is the only NPC sorority that has never had a chapter at IU.

The only NPC sorority which hasn't had a chapter at Penn State's main campus at University Park is AST. However their GQ chapter is at the Behrend campus.

The others who have been at PSU-University Park are:

AGD - AM chapter - closed 2001
AEF - AZ chapter
DFE - DP chapter - closed 1966
QFA - R chapter
FSS - BH chapter

I'm not sure of the other closing dates. QFA has had an interest group for a while, but Panhellenic hasn't been open to expansion since we lost AGD, and probably won't be for a while.

Since Penn seems to have the most, are ALL of those chapters currently active? I could not imagine having to go to THAT many parties in 1 week or I guess 2??
IndyJill, was it a high competition among the 22 that were all there? Imagine the stress for PNMs!!!

All 20 are active. It really is RUSH! When I went through there were 21 chapters, and it was spread over 2 weeks. Fall recruitment 2003 (my last one), with 20 chapters was done in a week and a couple days because of Labor Day, football games, Jewish holidays and when Homecoming was. It was crazy!!!

On a side note, Penn is the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State. Sorry, we're just a little sensitive to that. :)

Re: Largest Greek Life Campus?
 

The Recruitment Redefined article which was featured in a lot of group's magazines last year has a breakdown of how many groups are on campuses. Only 9% have 10–21 NPC groups, so it is indeed uncommon to have a "large" system. This article also talks about the new recruitment styles. It is still online at chiomega.com


Campuses are different:
63% have four NPC groups or less
28% have 5–9 NPC groups
9% have 10–21 NPC groups

Quotas vary:
17% have Quotas less than 10
24% have Quotas of 11–10
18% have Quotas of 20–29
19% have Quotas over 30
22% have unknown Quotas

• Sixty percent of campuses have Greek communities considered small or very small, with no more than four NPC groups. Forty-one percent have new members numbering not more than 18 annually.
• Many campuses have growing recruitment numbers; others have declining numbers.
• Many campuses have a tradition of students living on campus; others are strictly commuter campuses.

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville has 18 sororities. This includes 14 NPC, 3 NPHC, and 1 MCGLO

Can you post a link? I did a search for the University of Illinois and I don't know to which campus you're referring.

Probably Champaign-Urbana

Muchas gracias!

You better believe it!
 

Hi AOPIHottie, yep, it's a stressbucket for the PNMs, but the part that'll really knock you on your butt is the logistics of getting 22 groups in and out of each house promptly.

To give you an idea of the transportation issues, let me just say that about half of the houses are on a Greek Row-type street at one end of campus. But then several more are on a sort of mini-Greek Row on a street that is at the OPPOSITE side of campus. Now add 2 that were housed in the dorms while I was there. They used the buildings most suited for allowing privacy for the sorotites in question, but these just happened to be off in a part of campus that was nowhere near either of the streets mentioned above. Lastly, you can't forget several houses with lots here and there around central campus, dating back to before building space was at such a premium.

I'm amazed at the organizational skills it must take to put it all together each year!

UIUC
 

Its the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Fact.

Re: UIUc
 

You didn't read the actual question. The question is which campus has the most NPC groups currently.

Now if you get into percentages instead of raw numbers, that's a whole other story.

Oops!!

Sorry, just excited about getting my first post out! Hi all!

Auburn currently has 16 NPC chapters active and I believe two NPHC chapters active, for a total of 18.

We have all 9 of the Divine:D

Just a fun fact, kind of off topic, but I heard 40% of Illinois campus is greek from the graduate assistant in charge of greeks here at Ball State.

I'd be interested in knowing the percentage of colleges with some amount of NPHC Greek Life who have ALL of the Divine 9. Since it's just the 9 orgs, it seems like that would be much more common. I'm also assuming (so forgive me if I'm wrong) that a large majority of HBCUs would have all 9 orgs. I know that my school has all 9, but I think that is a fairly recent accomplishment.

UT-Austin Greek Community
 

4400 Students,
200+ Majors represented,
50+ Chapters,
11 Percent of the UT undergraduate student population, and
5 Councils, means
1 Body of diverse leadership!

Explore the council communities that make us unique. We're Texas Greeks! http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/gle/comm.php

Interfraternity Council (IFC), fraternities
National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), fraternities & sororities
Texas Asian Pan-Hellenic Council (TAPC), sororities
United Greek Council (UGC), fraternities & sororities
University Panhellenic Council (UPC), sororities
And an option for Affiliate Organizations

We only have 7 NPC sororities on campus at LB & there are only 5 frats left since TKE, Sig Ep, Kappa Sig are gone.
I would like to see ZTA recolonize here & the other frats come back but it's obviously not up to me. I can only hope the next President of the University is as Pro-Greek as our former one is.

There are 54 fraternities (I think I counted right) at PSU. Plus, 4 NPHC Fraternities and 4 NPHC Sororities.

IFC Fraternities:
Acacia
Alpha Chi Rho
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Gamma Rho
Alpha Kappa Lambda
Alpha Phi Delta
Alpha Rho Chi
Alpha Sigma Pi
Alpha Tau Omega
Alpha Zeta
Beta Sigma Beta
Beta Theta Pi
Chi Phi
Chi Psi
Delta Chi
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Phi
Delta Sigma
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Theta Sigma
Delta Upsilon
Kappa Alpha Order
Kappa Delta Rho
Kappa Sigma
Lambda Chi Alpha
Lambda Phi Epsilon
Lambda Theta Phi
Phi Delta Psi - H
Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI)
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Tau
Phi Kappa Theta
Phi Mu Delta
Phi Sigma Kappa
Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Phi
Pi Lambda Phi
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Chi
Sigma Lambda Beta
Sigma Nu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Pi
Sigma Tau Gamma
Tau Epsilon Phi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Tau Phi Delta
Theta Delta Chi
Theta Chi
Triangle
Zeta Beta Tau
Zeta Psi

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