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Originally Posted by DrPhil
There are 5 NPHC fraternities. Not all of them use Greek letters for graduate/alumni chapters.
As for the 4 NPHC sororities, Delta does not have three letter chapters and does not use Greek letters for alumnae chapters (stopped doing that many years ago). We would have three letter chapters if we still used Greek letters for alumnae chapters. Some of the alumnae chapters used to be three letter (alumnae) chapters generations ago.
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OK, to be specific, note this is from about 30 minutes of research on Wikipedia and google. (note, I'm using the terms graduate chapters and alumni/ae chapters interchangably here, I know some use one term and one the other)
Alpha Phi Alpha: Graduate chapters end in Lambda, many three letter.
Omega Psi Phi: A mess. Some of the newer undergrad chapters are three letters. Some of the later(?) graduate chapters are three letters with the second and third the same. Maybe they started with having all chapters assigned names in order and latter changed to the 2nd & 3rd identical.
Kappa Alpha Psi: Appears to use only geographic names for graduate chapters .
Phi Beta Sigma: Graduate chapters end in Sigma, many three letter
Iota Phi Theta: Graduate chapters end in Omega, many three letter
Alpha Kappa Alpha: Graduate chapters end in Omega, many three letter
Delta Sigma Theta: Formerly used: Most graduate chapters end in Sigma, many three letter. Changed to geographic names during the 1956 National Convention (December 26-30, 1956) (term changed from graduate chapters to alumnae chapters)
Zeta Phi Beta: Graduate chapters end in Zeta, may three letter
Sigma Gamma Rho: Graduate chapters end in Sigma, many three letters
So I count it as 6 that more or less follow the "end in a specific letter" rule, one (DST) that used to, one that never did(KAPsi) and I'm still trying to figure out Omega Psi Phi.