What is the largest national sorority?

[Angels&Arrows]

FuzzieAlum,

I am sorry... I truly did not mean to sound short.

I realized after your post and after I reread mine... I was.

Again I am sorry..

In the greek bond,
Shelly

[douthit]

Pertaining to fraternities, Phi Sigma Kappa is somewhere in the middle as far as the NIC groups, having 93 currently active chapters. I don't know how many inactive ones are out there, all I know is that it is too many! Our national is doing a good job of recolonizing chapters where there is a good alumni base and interest groups wanting to reactivate the chapter.

[ChiOqt]

Chi O is one of the largest nationally. We're even the second largest women's organization in the nation.....with the Girl Scouts of America being the first! Delta Zeta and ADPi are pretty large on the national level as well!

[Virtual Violet]

Originally posted by Virtual Violet


I'm not sure, but the majority are alumnae chapters. I would guess anywhere from 250-400 are collegiate chapters. However in the NPHC, the alumnae and alumni chapters are just as active as the collegiate chapters. (Lady Greek, if you're out there, can you check in with the info?)

I was given the answer, per the most recent statistics from our National Convention last week. The collegiate chapters comprise 393 of our 887 chapters worldwide.

Counting all new charters, recolonizations, pulled chapters etc, here are the "current" stats..

181 Total Chapters
115 Active Chapters
66 Inactive Chapters (not that you couldnt figure it)
123,000+ Initiates. Someone could probably contact IHQ and find the exact number
63.5% of Chapters Still Active.

[Senusret I]

That's really cool, Virtual Violet. Delta's Alumnae Chapters here in DC have been doing great work ever since I can remember. My Math teacher in High School is the curent President of Federal City Alumnae.

Originally posted by Virtual Violet


I was given the answer, per the most recent statistics from our National Convention last week. The collegiate chapters comprise 393 of our 887 chapters worldwide.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by Virtual Violet


I was given the answer, per the most recent statistics from our [Delta Sigma Theta] National Convention last week. The collegiate chapters comprise 393 of our 887 chapters worldwide.

Thanks for the info, Virtual Violet. I knew that in Delta Sigma Theta (and most other NPHC groups), alumni/ae chapters tend to be just as active as collegiate chapters, which I think is great! I just have learned from experience that it can be difficult to get a read on which group or organization is biggest, etc., because different groups may count different things: just collegiate chapters, collegiate and alumn chapters, total initiates, active collegiates and alums, and so on. Its always best to get as much info as possible so that comparisons can be as accurate as possible. Thanks again!

[madmax]

Originally posted by SigmaChiGuy
I'd like to see the $$$ in writing. I have a difficult time believing that Phi Kappa Tau is the "richest" in any sense. I would guess some of the older and larger fraternities would have more alumni donations....mainly, Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delt, Beta, Kappa Sigma or Pike.

I have been known to be wrong though. If you have some links, please post them.

You are not wrong. Profet's post was just a bs rumor. That info usually is not public.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by madmax


You are not wrong. Profet's post was just a bs rumor. That info is not public.

Well, sometimes it is public. Phi Kappa Tau’s website reports that their Foundation has assets in excess of $11 million. (Phi Kappa Tau Foundation.) Meanwhile, Sigma Chi’s website reports that their Foundation had assets in 2001 of over $19 million. (History of the Sigma Chi Endowment Foundation.) Some other fraternities list foundation/endowment assets on their websites, while others do not.

[PiKapp139]

damn, there are some big houses, i dont think the pi kapps are as big as that. But is size really that important, i sometimes think that the really big fraternities will take anyone. Maybe i'm wrong, and as for alumni donations, i have no idea but i did a report at school about the skullls at yale university and about what fraternities they came from, and most came from delta kappa epsilon (dke), including the president and his father, and numerous other yale alumni that were dke and part of the skulls.

[ThetaxiUW]

Our house has I think only 54 active chapters. But as you can guess, our motto is quality not quantity. We are at at least kappa phi and I think a lot are inactive. Nationals have begun to take charters away from dangerous chapters. I think the greek system in general is getting smaller. The rush numbers from many of the houses here are not looking good for men at least. Negative media is just killin us here. Damn media.

On a different subject though, does chapter have anything special about their phone number. Our last four digits are 6294 and a lot of our chapters have that number with a different 3 numbers as the beginning. I know why and its a secret (kinda) so don't ask. Anyone else have something similar?

[aprilxo]

HEY I am renting a room at Theta Xi's house this summer and the number here is a 6294--I never realized that there was some significance to that, but I don't even need to know WHAT it is to think it's kinda' cool...

Thanks for the info!

greek love,
april

[Angels&Arrows]

Okay... Because I had some down time today and research is my thing...

This is from each individual GLOs national website! If the information is incorrect... Please let me and your Nationals know... because I pulled it off the GLOs website, with the exception of Alpha Epsilon Phi and Theta Phi Alpha (they do not have active websites). The list is only consist of the Members of the National Panhellenic Council. If you have any additional information, please let me know... I will add it. Same goes for changes.

-----------------------------Year-------Current--Chapters
-----------------------------in NPC-----Active----Closed--% Closed
Alpha Omicron Pi---------1905------176
Chi Omega----------------1903------164
Delta Zeta ----------------1910------161
Alpha Phi------------------1902------148
Zeta Tau Alpha-----------1909------143--------76-------35%
Delta Gamma-------------1902------142
Pi Beta Phi----------------1902------134--------25-------16%
Alpha Delta Pi------------1909------133
Delta Delta Delta--------1902------133--------39-------23%
Alpha Chi Omega--------1903------133
Kappa Kappa Gamma---1902------129
Phi Mu----------------------1911------123
Kappa Alpha Theta------1902------122--------39-------24%
Kappa Delta---------------1912------122
Gamma Phi Beta----------1902------114
Alpha Gamma Delta------1909------115--------66-------36%
Alpha Sigma Tau----------1951------113--------37-------25%
Phi Sigma Sigma----------1951------113--------57-------34%
Alpha Xi Delta-------------1904------112
Sigma Kappa--------------1905------109
Sigma Sigma Sigma-------1951------107
Delta Phi Epsilon----------1951-------78-----------4-------5%
Alpha Sigma Alpha--------1951-------73
Sigma Delta Tau-----------1951------ 57---------38-------40%
Alpha Epsilon Phi----------1951------N/A
Theta Phi Alpha------------1951------N/A

[FuzzieAlum]

Thanks, Angels & Arrows, for doing that ... I have to say also I am very impressed by groups such as D Phi E that have a small percentage of closed chapters. That's doing something right.

(I know some groups were hit hard by joining the NPC and losing some chapters, and other groups have been hit harder than others by campuses banning Greek life - I mean, you can't blame a national for that, so I don't mean to get down on the groups that have experienced those problems. Just trying to give kudos to those who are taking care of the chapters they've got!)

[APhi]

Wow Angels&Arrows, that must have taken a lot of work. I do have some corrections for you though.

First, AOPi does not have 176 active chapters. It's just not possible. Maybe that was total numbers of charters.

Second, according to the summer issue of the Alpha Phi Quarterly we have about 143 active chapters including our colonies and ongoing revitalization/recolonizations. From the day I pledged (way back in '94) up til now I've always heard we were fourth.

Despite my nit picking, that was really good work.