NPC Sororities at Big 12 Schools

[exlurker]

This is sort of dzandiloo's fault -- in the "New Sorority for Clemson" thread in the Rush forum she mentioned wishing that some Big 12 schools would open for expansion so that DZ could present and, hopefully, colonize.

That made me wonder -- what is the general picture of NPC representation at the Big 12 schools (Texas at Austin, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Colorado, Nebraska at Lincoln, and Iowa State)? These are all large or fairly large schools, for the most part, with strong regional or national reputations / school alumni support.

Searches of Panhellenic, Greek life, and inter/national HOs' sites produced these findings -- errors are mine alone, of course, and corrections and updates are welcome (in a couple of instances a school's site still listed a chapter that had recently closed, and I did NOT include those chapters in the following summary).

It appears that there are 144 NPC chapters at the Big 12 schools; Baylor has the smallest number (9), while Nebraska and Texas-Austin each have 14. The others are in between with 10, 11, 12 or 13 chapters.

Six NPC groups have chapters at all 12 schools:

Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Pi Beta Phi.

Three have chapters at 10 of the 12:

Alpha Delta Pi (not at Colorado or Oklahoma),
Kappa Delta (not at Colorado or Oklahoma), and Gamma Phi Beta (not at Texas-Austin or Baylor).

One -- Delta Gamma -- has chapters at 8 of the 12 (not at Baylor, Kansas State, Iowa State or Oklahoma State)

One -- Zeta Tau Alpha -- has chapters at 7 of the 12 (not at Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Nebraska, or Colorado).

Alpha Phi is at 5 of the 12.

Alpha Omicron Pi and Phi Mu are each at 4 of the 12.

Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Xi Delta, and Sigma Kappa are each at 3 of the 12.

Delta Zeta and Sigma Delta Tau are each at 2.

Alpha Epsilon Phi is at one.

And six NPC groups apparently do not currently have chapters at any Big 12 school: Alpha Sigma Alpha, Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Sigma Sigma, and Theta Phi Alpha.

What the reasons are, I have no idea -- probably combinations of regional alumnae bases, funds needed for housing / colonization, the views of individual NPC groups as to their "niches," geographic factors like nearby chapters in similar schools, plus luck and the accidents of history.

Has anyone else looked at the NPC -- or IFC or NPHC -- makeup of another conference? I'll bet there are some that are very different from the Big 12!