How Big Are You?

[TSteven]

Here are the lists for sororities again from the Fraternities Executives Association's web site. Last updated on Monday, May 17, 2004.

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

NOTE: Not all sororities have their statistics listed thus the lists below may not be complete.


Sororities with 100 plus chapters

179 Alpha Gamma Delta
171 Chi Omega
165 Delta Zeta
144 Delta Gamma
143 Alpha Phi

135 Delta Delta Delta
132 Alpha Delta Pi
130 Alpha Chi Omega
125 Kappa Delta
122 Kappa Alpha Theta

120 Phi Mu
112 Alpha Xi Delta
110 Phi Sigma Sigma
107 Sigma Kappa
105 Sigma Sigma Sigma


Sororities with 100,000 plus initiates

240,000 Chi Omega
190,000 Delta Gamma
189,000 Alpha Chi Omega
185,000 Alpha Delta Pi
180,000 Kappa Delta

156,005 Alpha Phi
150,761 Phi Mu
135,862 Sigma Kappa
130,000 Alpha Gamma Delta
130,000 Alpha Xi Delta

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by TSteven
Here are the lists for sororities again from the Fraternities Executives Association's web site. Last updated on Monday, May 17, 2004.

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

NOTE: Not all sororities have their statistics listed thus the lists below may not be complete.


Sororities with 100 plus chapters

179 Alpha Gamma Delta
171 Chi Omega
165 Delta Zeta
144 Delta Gamma
143 Alpha Phi

135 Delta Delta Delta
132 Alpha Delta Pi
130 Alpha Chi Omega
125 Kappa Delta
122 Kappa Alpha Theta

120 Phi Mu
112 Alpha Xi Delta
110 Phi Sigma Sigma
107 Sigma Kappa
105 Sigma Sigma Sigma


Sororities with 100,000 plus initiates

240,000 Chi Omega
190,000 Delta Gamma
189,000 Alpha Chi Omega
185,000 Alpha Delta Pi
180,000 Kappa Delta

156,005 Alpha Phi
150,761 Phi Mu
135,862 Sigma Kappa
130,000 Alpha Gamma Delta
130,000 Alpha Xi Delta

FYI...the Alpha Gamma Delta website states the following:

"Collegiate Chapters: 111 active collegiate chapters across North America"

[CASIGKAP]

That's a pretty interesting list. I was surprised to find that Sigma Kappa has more alumni chapters than collegiate chapters. Pretty cool.

[CASIGKAP]

Originally posted by NutBrnHair
FYI...the Alpha Gamma Delta website states the following:

"Collegiate Chapters: 111 active collegiate chapters across North America"

Perhaps the list might include chapters that are now dormant?

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by CASIGKAP
Perhaps the list might include chapters that are now dormant?

In the case of AGD, yes, I think it does; however, I believe the list quoted was trying to name the number of active (open) collegiate chapters.

Compare apples to apples.

[astroAPhi]

Maybe, because I did count the chapters listed on their website and it did total to 111.

[ZTAngel]

ZTA has over 180,000 initiated members. Could be a lot more since I think this is an old statistic. I'm not sure how many active chapters we have but I do know that it is over 140.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally posted by ZTAngel
I'm not sure how many active chapters we have but I do know that it is over 140.

Hang on a sec and astroAPhi will count them for us!

[ZTAngel]

Uh-oh...don't go to the Zeta website to count them. That website hasn't been updated in forever. We have chapters on there listed as active that aren't and then we have a bunch of new chapters that are unlisted. I'll go do a quick count since I have a pretty good idea of our active/new/inactive chapters.

ETA:
I counted and I think we're at 140 exactly but don't quote me on that.

[thermobryan]

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss


Our average chapter size is 46, which is highest in the NIC.

Think you might double check that one....

[Rudey]

Alpha Epsilon Pi has 123 Active chapters and 8 colonies with 189 chapters internationally including dormany chapters and approximately 80,000 brothers. I don't know how many alumni chapters there are really.

While I would never shoot the messengar, I'm confused as to the statistics slightly...

-Rudey

Originally posted by 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

[OleMissGlitter]

Originally posted by TSteven
Here are the lists for sororities again from the Fraternities Executives Association's web site. Last updated on Monday, May 17, 2004.

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

NOTE: Not all sororities have their statistics listed thus the lists below may not be complete.


Sororities with 100 plus chapters

179 Alpha Gamma Delta
171 Chi Omega
165 Delta Zeta
144 Delta Gamma
143 Alpha Phi

135 Delta Delta Delta
132 Alpha Delta Pi
130 Alpha Chi Omega
125 Kappa Delta
122 Kappa Alpha Theta

120 Phi Mu
112 Alpha Xi Delta
110 Phi Sigma Sigma
107 Sigma Kappa
105 Sigma Sigma Sigma


Sororities with 100,000 plus initiates

240,000 Chi Omega
190,000 Delta Gamma
189,000 Alpha Chi Omega
185,000 Alpha Delta Pi
180,000 Kappa Delta

156,005 Alpha Phi
150,761 Phi Mu
135,862 Sigma Kappa
130,000 Alpha Gamma Delta
130,000 Alpha Xi Delta

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.

[TSteven]

Originally posted by TSteven
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

I agree that the statistics listed may not be current thus the disclaimer. The FEA site is the only Greek supported site that I know of that list statistics.

My suggestion would be to address your concerns to either FEA or to your HQ.

Fraternity Executives Association
2003 - 2004 Officers & Directors

President - Tom Helmbock, Lambda Chi Alpha
President Elect- Deb Ensor, Zeta Tau Alpha
Secretary - Cynthia Menges - Delta Zeta
Treasurer - Melanie McMillan-Schild, Kappa Delta
Director - Bonnie Wunsch, Alpha Epsilon Phi
Director - Robert Biggs, Phi Delta Theta
Director - Mark Anderson, Sigma Chi
Immediate Past President- David Westol, Theta Chi
Editor News & Notes - Sidney N. Dunn, Alpha Epsilon Pi

[thermobryan]

From my understanding the highest average chapter size goes:
1. Sigma Phi Epsilon
2. Pi Kappa Alpha
3. Sigma Alpha Epsilon
4. Kappa Sigma
5. Alpha Tau Omega

That's just from my knowledge...

[moe.ron]

I believed we, Sigma Phi Epsilon, have passed the 250,000 initiates during the Winter/Spring semester. I read it somewhere.

ETA: I was right, this March, we initiated our 250,000 brother.