Catholic Founded/Based Colleges and Universities

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

St. Louis University is Jesuit and they have a greek system. I did not attend the school, so I'm not sure about the sentiments on campus.

[BSUPhiSig'92]

Greek Life at Saint Louis U. is pretty strong, with 12 fraternities and 5 sororities.

[OleMissGlitter]

I'm from New Orleans and there are sororities and fraternities at Loyola. Also, my cousin attend Regis in Colorado, it is a Catholic University run by the Jesuit Order of Priests and they do not have Greek Life there. My cousin said that there are some groups that meet, but they are more like social/religious groups there.

I am Catholic by the way and the majority of my family is Greek. Also, most of my sorority sisters are Catholic. I did have a friend from high school tell me it was against the Catholic Religion to be in a sorority. I don't think I'm breaking any rules by being an AOII. If anything, it has made me become a better person and much more charitable person.

[AOIIBrandi]

I don't know about Catholic Universities, but I do know that The University of the South or "Suwannee" as it's commonly referred to has greek life. The school is affiliated with the Episcopal Church.

[sueali]

BYU does not support greek life, and it's not catholic but very religious. I don't attend there, but their in our conference.

[DolphinChicaDDD]

Originally posted by LadyBug103
I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College.

I know that area...my brother went to UofS.
Doesn't Kings College have frats? Not recognized by the school.I distinctly remember a friend who said he was a Kappa Sig there...but i could just be making that up in my head.

[GeekyPenguin]

OK, I'm sorry but why are we talking about schools that aren't Catholic in here? There's a big difference between Marquette and BYU.

[shadokat]

I'm not sure why, but none of the schools in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton have Greek Life. Once you get out of that area, and over to like Bucknell, Lycoming, Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, Susquehanna, then the schools have Greek Systems. Once you get south of there, to like ESU, Lehigh, Lafayette, etc., you get Greek Systems again. I don't know what the reason is, but it's always been that way.

Originally posted by LadyBug103
I live in the Northeast PA area, and attend Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, which is adament about not supporting greek life because of the reason that I have stated. The institutions surrounding me don't support greek orgs. , such as Kings College, College Miseracordia, The University of Scranton (which is a Jesuit University), Johnson College, Bible Baptist College, Penn State Branch Campuses (which is a state university obviously, but don't have greek systems because only the main campus does), Marywood University, Lackawanna County Community College. Not ALL of these are Catholic based but the majority are, and it seems as though its consistent that they don't support greek orgs. due to many reasons, which I dont agree with.
Thank you for all of your messages, I wasn't sure if it was a universal thing!! I'm glad that its not!! Now all I have to do is TRANSFER

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
OK, I'm sorry but why are we talking about schools that aren't Catholic in here? There's a big difference between Marquette and BYU.

OMG KATH YOU ARE SUCH A BIATCH!!!1!!

I WISH THE KAPPA SIGS WOULD THROW YOU IN THE LAKE.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
OMG KATH YOU ARE SUCH A BIATCH!!!1!!

I WISH THE KAPPA SIGS WOULD THROW YOU IN THE LAKE.

Me too!

THEEETA, THEEETA.

And to put this a little more on-topic, I think private schools are a little more likely to not have Greek Life because it's easier for them not to. It obviously doesn't hurt some schools - look at Notre Dame.

[PiEp299]

I attended a Catholic founded university that has 3 fraternities and 3 sororities now. It used to be more positive toward greek life until they hired the jackass of a president they have now, who is verrrry anti-Greek and actually was hired partially for that reason.

"and that school would be" Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN which is 2 hours from where I grew up and went to high school(that school is Catholic High School) in Little Rock, AR.
Which is 15 minutes from where I went to grade school (do you need to know that one too?)

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by PiEp299
I attended a Catholic founded university that has 3 fraternities and 3 sororities now. It used to be more positive toward greek life until they hired the jackass of a president they have now, who is verrrry anti-Greek and actually was hired partially for that reason.

And that school would be?

[WenD08]

Xavier University in New Orleans, the only predominately Black college in the US, has NPHC sororities and fraternities. Xavier University in Cincinnati, a Jesuit school, also has NPHC sororities and at least one fraternity. at XU/Cincy, i don't know about non-NPHC orgs on campus

[Senusret I]

I decided that I would make a listing of Jesuit Colleges and Universities to see which ones have a traditional greek system or not. Since most BGLOs and LGLOs can function through metropolitan chapters, I won't note them. If there is an "unrecognized" chapter of a national GLO on a campus that does NOT have a recognized system, I will note it.


Boston College
Canisius College, YES
College of the Holy Cross
Creighton University, YES
Fairfield University
Fordham University, NO
Georgetown University, NO but has a chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi
Gonzaga University
John Carroll University, YES
Le Moyne College
Loyola College in Maryland
Loyola Marymount University, YES
Loyola University Chicago, YES
Loyola University New Orleans, YES
Marquette University, YES
Regis University, NO
Rockhurst University, YES
Saint Joseph's University, YES
Saint Louis University, YES
Saint Peter's College
Santa Clara University, YES
Seattle University , NO
Spring Hill College
University of Detroit Mercy, YES
University of San Francisco
University of Scranton, NO
Wheeling Jesuit University
Xavier University

Of course this is incomplete, I will edit the post as we get more info. And FYI, I only included Jesuit Universities because 1) the ones that ban them seem to say that frats/sorors are against the Jesuit mission, and 2) because I went to one and worked for one!

[sueali]

By bringing up BYU i was just trying to make the point that it's not jsut a catholic issue, others brought up methodist schools and episcopalian. What is your problem?