How Big Are You?

[hannahgirl]

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.

Well when you take into account that most of our small chapter have 50-60 women in them and our biggest chapter has over 200.....there are many in the middle that boast 100+. It all works out in the end...


Our top 5 chapters -
Alpha Psi-Mississippi: 224
Alpha Iota-Oklahoma: 215
Mu-Missouri: 211
Alpha Nu-Southern California: 204
Gamma Zeta-Louisiana State: 196


eta: stats of biggest chapters

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by kddani
486 chartered alumnae chapters- more than any other NPC

whoa! kudos to KD for having that many chartered alumnae chapters! They weren't kidding when they said membership is for a lifetime!

[xo_kathy]

Well, according to our National website, Chi Omega has:

240,000 initiated members
Over 170 collegiate chapters (I *think* we're at 174?)
Over 230 active alumnae chapters

[ISUKappa]

Kappa Kappa Gamma:

* 131 chapters
* 200,000 + initiated members
* 330 active Alumnae Associations

[Mooch279]

Last time i check which was Fall '02 so im sure the numbers have changed.

- 210 active chapters
- 243,000+ initiated
- 200,000+ living alumni
- 8,000+ undergrad

[XOMichelle]

[------------------------------------This Big!!!---------------------------------]

[SAEalumnus]

I don't have the exact figures with me right now, but I know we have 200+ active chapters with approx. 300 total charters issued since 1856 and 75+ alumni associations... NONE of which are in the Philippines! The total number of initiates as of right now is 281,345.

[OleMissGlitter]

From the AOII website:
Alpha Omicron Pi has chartered 178 collegiate chapters, and over 320 alumnae chapters located throughout the United States and Canada since its founding in 1897. AOII's membership exceeds 125,000 strong, successful and caring women.

[Erik P Conard]

one can do all kinds of things with numbers.
The NIC has issued, sporadically, the average chapter sizes,
the official colonies, and now interest groups. And there are
likely some unrecognized, or sub-rosa or what have you.
I think Pi Kappa Alpha and SAE overwhelmingly have the largest
average chapter sizes. Kappa Sig is large, so is Sig Ep; the others, well, contact NIC. They would most likely be the most
accurate, figure-wise. Sororities have shot out of sight...
TKE continues to lead with number of active chapters, but then
they have the most, by far, inactive ones. The average size of
TKE chapters looks small 'cause of chartering on small campi with
small chapters. A bone of contention with many....
Alumni....some have been dead a long time. Lambda Chi, founded in 1909 and Sig Ep, 1901, are likely to have a higher
percentage of alums living, than, say, Deke or DU or SAE.
Colonies...are they reactivations, new charters or what? What's
an interest group? What other definitions? Are urban chapters
counted as one or how many, may have as many as ten schools
in "chapter."
Yes, things have changed. But we all love our groups.

[ATO/terp]

From the Alpha Tau Omega Website ( dont knw how old it is)

ATO annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters and total number of members. ATO has more than 240 active and inactive chapters with more than 181,000 members and more than 6,500 undergraduate members.

[Sister Havana]

Originally posted by jharb
Everytime I see the name of this thread I have my mind in the gutter. Either that or I think it's a thread on how fat GCers are.

hee hee! me too!

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Erik P Conard
The NIC has issued, sporadically, the average chapter sizes, the official colonies, and now interest groups. And there are likely some unrecognized, or sub-rosa or what have you. I think Pi Kappa Alpha and SAE overwhelmingly have the largest average chapter sizes. Kappa Sig is large, so is Sig Ep; the others, well, contact NIC.

Its not sporadic, and when the last NIC numbers were released, we had the highest average chapter size; 46. Since those numbers were released, we've climbed to 49.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Phi Kappa Psi holds the largest endowment fund in the NIC

Thanks to a few generous alumni, we're now at over $18 million. This is the highest outright, and on a per chapter and per capita basis. And we're still growing at a very fast rate.

[CASIGKAP]

Originally posted by Rudey
I was just wondering where people get these NIC figures?

-Rudey

These figures can usually be found on the national website of the particular organization. However, you have to take into account that some websites are somewhat dated so you tend to have a general estimate.

CORRECTION: Sigma Kappa is not the third largest sorority. The figures posted were inaccurate due to the fact that it's been a while since the #'s posted on the website were reconfigured. They could be higher or lower. When & if I find a reasonalble and accurate #, I'll post it.

It's good to see that Greek Life is reall growing & expanding! Keep up the good work.

[TSteven]

Here are two separate lists. The first list is of fraternities with more than 100 chapters. (I did not include colonies or affiliates) The second list is fraternities with more than 100,000 total initiates.

Please do not shoot the massager here. I got the following statistics from the Fraternities Executives Association's web site. Last updated on Monday, May 17, 2004.

http://www.fea-inc.org/fratern.htm

My understanding is that each fraternity's information is provided by the fraternity. So how up to date the statistics may be is depended on each fraternity.

FYI: From the information provided, you can not divide the total number of initiates by number of chapters to get an average chapter size. The number you would get would be the total number of initiates per chapter. 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.

To find the current average chapter size, you would need to know the number of current active members divided by the current number of chapters. The web site does not provide this information.

For example. Fraternity ABC is listed with two chapters and 120 initiates. Chapter A has had 60 members for 3 years while Chapter B has had 60 members for 2 years. If you were to divide 120 by 2 you would come up with 60. But the accurate chapter average would be 24. How would you get there is to divide 120 (total initiates) by 5 (each active year of each chapter - 3 for Chapter A and 2 for Chapter B.) Thus 120/5 = 24.

Perhaps you can you tell I'm a statistics nerd.


Fraternities with 100 plus chapters

243 Tau Kappa Epsilon
238 Sigma Phi Epsilon
218 Sigma Chi
208 Pi Kappa Alpha
207 Sigma Alpha Epsilon

194 Kappa Sigma
190 Lambda Chi Alpha
185 Sigma Nu
167 Phi Delta Theta
140 Alpha Tau Omega

134 Theta Chi
130 Kappa Alpha Order
129 Beta Theta Pi
119 Pi Kappa Phi
117 Delta Chi

113 Phi Gamma Delta
112 Delta Tau Delta
107 Sigma Pi
102 Delta Sigma Phi


Fraternities with 100,000 plus initiates

280,544 Tau Kappa Epsilon
270,867 Sigma Alpha Epsilon
263,975 Sigma Chi
245,904 Sigma Phi Epsilon
240,379 Lambda Chi Alpha

219,000 Kappa Sigma
217,400 Phi Delta Theta
215,000 Pi Kappa Alpha
206,653 Sigma Nu
185,000 Alpha Tau Omega

182,284 Kappa Alpha Order
168,000 Beta Theta Pi
153,145 Theta Chi
148,100 Phi Gamma Delta
144,167 Delta Tau Delta

117,199 Delta Upsilon
115,000 Phi Sigma Kappa
110,000 Zeta Beta Tau
107,000 Delta Sigma Phi
104,000 Phi Kappa Psi