How Big Are You?

[thermobryan]

Originally posted by TSteven
As a comparison, here are stats from our fellow Greek Chat member Ariesrising's Greek Info Pages web site.

http://www3.telus.net/ariesrising/


Sororities with 100 plus chapters

176 Chi Omega
165 Delta Zeta
143 Alpha Phi
143 Delta Gamma
143 Zeta Tau Alpha

135 Delta Delta Delta
134 Pi Beta Phi
133 Alpha Chi Omega
133 Alpha Delta Pi
130 Kappa Kappa Gamma

124 Kappa Delta
124 Kappa Alpha Theta
123 Phi Mu
114 Alpha Gamma Delta
114 Gamma Phi Beta

113 Alpha Sigma Tau
112 Alpha Omicron Pi
112 Alpha Xi Delta
113 Phi Sigma Sigma
113 Sigma Kappa

107 Sigma Sigma Sigma


Sororities with 100,000 plus initiates

225,000 Chi Omega
220,000 Zeta Tau Alpha
210,000 Delta Delta Delta
205,000 Pi Beta Phi
191,000 Kappa Alpha Theta

190,000 Delta Gamma
186,000 Kappa Kappa Gamma
183,000 Alpha Delta Pi
177,501 Kappa Delta
162,929 Alpha Chi Omega

137,813 Delta Zeta
136,000 Alpha Gamma Delta
131,825 Phi Mu
129,439 Alpha Phi
125,000 Alpha Omicron Pi

120,000 Alpha Xi Delta
117,290 Sigma Kappa
103,688 Gamma Phi Beta
103,688 Sigma Sigma Sigma


Fraternities with 100 plus chapters

364 Lambda Chi Alpha
300 Tau Kappa Epsilon
258 Sigma Phi Epsilon
245 Kappa Sigma
228 Sigma Chi

210 Sigma Nu
208 Sigma Alpha Epsilon
192 Pi Kappa Alpha
175 Phi Delta Theta
157 Alpha Tau Omega

147 Theta Chi
129 Pi Kappa Phi
128 Phi Gamma Delta
126 Beta Theta Pi
126 Kappa Alpha Order

123 Sigma Pi
117 Delta Chi
110 Delta Sigma Phi


Fraternities with 100,000 plus initiates

262,000 Sigma Alpha Epsilon
240,000 Sigma Phi Epsilon
238,000 Sigma Chi
235,000 Lambda Chi Alpha
208,600 Tau Kappa Epsilon

201,000 Phi Delta Theta
200,000 Kappa Sigma
195,963 Sigma Nu
180,000 Pi Kappa Alpha
170,500 Alpha Tau Omega

167,500 Beta Theta Pi
140,997 Theta Chi
139,700 Phi Gamma Delta
118,097 Zeta Beta Tau
115,000 Kappa Alpha Order

110,000 Delta Upsilon
110,000 Phi Sigma Kappa
105,000 Delta Sigma Phi
102,000 Phi Kappa Psi

More like around 215,000...I don't know how updated or accurate that website really is...

There are also 218 International Chapters.

[AUDG]

Definately not to burst anyone's bubble but the KAT site says they have "number more than 170,000" with "more than 120 chapters".

http://www.kappaalphatheta.org/kat_v...hetod_body.cfm

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally posted by ariesrising
I just updated my site with a Numbers section, that has all updated numbers. Some are outdated (the smaller organizations especially), but many are as current as I could find on official sites and from GC of course lol.

Great website!! Kappa Alpha Psi and Iota Phi Theta are also NIC members.

[Speechpath]

Off the back of the most recent arrow Pi Beta Phi has:

223,969 initiated members
134 Active chapters (1 colony NC Delta)
351 Alum clubs

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by TSteven To get the historical average chapter size you would then need to divide that number by the total cumulative number of years for all active chapters.[/B]

That would only work if you could also get the number of years that a chapter was dormant, so that dormancy could be factored.

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
How can it be possible to have an average chapter size of 100? Am I underestimating the number of HUGE chapters out there? I would have thought that there are way more medium-sized Greek systems than that. But maybe DG is just at ALL of the bigger schools and not as many of the smaller ones? Still, I would be really surprised (in a good way!) if this is true.

I'm leaning toward agreeing with my (chapter ) sister. Some chapters are in the 200s (Mississippi State and Ole Miss come to mine) which would raise the average chapter size

[CarolinaCutie]

Yeah, once it was explained to me, I could see how it would happen. GOOD JOB DG!

[CASIGKAP]

Here's some info I found for LAMBDA THETA ALPHA, a Latina sorority.

They have 68 undergraduate chapters (including one in my school).

7 alumnae chapters in Texas, California, Ney York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Florida.

4 Graduate chapters in New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, and Maryland.

The OMEGA chapter is reserved for deceased sisters. I don't know what this entails b/c I don't belong to this organization but I found it interesting.

[SurfinDBeach]

Those numbers are a little too weird on that second post...

The second post makes no sense...

From what i've heard and have SEEN from the website you provided, there's no one with over 300 chapters right now in terms of fraternities...

Where exactly did you get the numbers that you posted on this board?

The Ariesrising numbers are on the following website which is a CLEAR LINK on the provided Ariesrising that displays most numbers of chapters and initiates:

http://www3.telus.net/ariesrising/numbers.html

That looks like the 1st one and is clearly labeled as updated to July 2004...


OH, and BY THE WAY, EVERY Fraternity has WEAK chapters...

I've seen WEAK TKE Chapters, WEAK SAE Chapters, WEAK Sig Ep Chapters, etc... ANd all 3 of those aformetioned are stong on my campus...
It all depends on the school and the system...





GO BEACH!!!
GO T K E!!! (STILL the LARGEST FRATERNITY IN THE WORLD)...

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
Yeah, once it was explained to me, I could see how it would happen. GOOD JOB DG!

And yay for Phi Mu, which has a strong chapter at Auburn

[Erik P Conard]

if you have a good chapter adviser, one who will come to most
of the meetings...and
if you have a good board who meets...without exception...each month and has reports from...
chapter president
house manager & house mother, if applicable
chapter treasurer (board the baddies, tho, bill collectors)
rush chairman & pledge trainer
pledge president, if possible and time permits...
Advisers, board members, even old grouches like me...we really
care...and we love our fraternity! We weep when we lose a chapter and have orphaned alumni...we really do.
Help us to keep you a winner! Fraternity is for life.
Do this, and you will win....for the rest of your life!

[LAKDgirl]

To confirm KD has over 180,000 members.
We have 487 chartered Alumnae Assoc. Chapters (almost at 500!)
I do believe that we do have 127 active college chapters
and we have 207 chartered chapters.

[33girl]

Originally posted by Rudey
See I was hoping NIC or one of the umbrella orgs would be willing to do it or had the numbers and then shared. But again, in all honesty, I don't believe in this ever occuring.

-Rudey

I don't either. People don't want to talk about retention or lack of same with other groups - it's the elephant in the room.

[seraphimsprite]

Sigma Kappa actually publishes our annual report with a lot of this information on the public section of our website. Its not completely up to date but according to the 2002-2003 annual report we have:
108 collegiate chapters
8,335 collegiate members
(which if you do the math means we have an average chapter size of about 77.)
We also have 145 active alumnae chapters and clubs.
As of June 1, 2003, there were 135,862 total members.

Oh and for whoever was asking about retention and gpa, we had an 85% initiation rate and the averge gpa was 3.02.

Now wouldn't it be great if every org released this information?

[sairose]

Sigma Alpha Iota

# of active college chapters: 200ish
# of active alum chapters: about 120

Total # of initiates since 1903: about 100,000

Not sure how many active members; I'll look into that.