Largest Greek Life Campus?

[AOPIHottie]

This is inspired by some of the conversation on Carnations 'who's presenting' thread(wich I did not want to hijack) But does anyone know what college campus has the most ACTIVE amount of sororities? I know there is no campus that has all 26 NPC sororities, but is there a campus that has a large amount? And I am only refering to NPC organizations, not locals.

And do you think it is a beneficial thing to have that many organizations representing? Or would it be far to competitive? My school only had two NPC's (AOII & AGD) so I never experienced the cut-throatness of a long intense rush.

[AOPIHottie]

Wow, 20 is impressive. I actually thought it would be around 10 or less.

[ms_gwyn]

Penn State has 20 NPC's -- Since ariesrising beat me to it....here are the orgs


Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Phi Mu
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Zeta Tau Alpha

[WCUgirl]

Indiana Univ. has quite a few, don't they?

[STL Kappa]

According to their Greek Life website, Indiana has 26 sororities but only 19 are NPC sororities:

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Delta Tau
Zeta Tau Alpha

Wow, 20 is impressive. I actually thought it would be around 10 or less.

10 or less active NPC chapters at Penn State is impressive, or at one school is impressive??

-Edited to include Alpha Phi, which was omitted because of my stupidity!!

[ADqtPiMel]

Miami University has 17 NPCs.

[Sister Havana]

Originally posted by STL Kappa
According to their Greek Life website, Indiana has 26 sororities but only 18 are NPC sororities:

Actually, IU has 19 NPC sororities. Alpha Phi also has a strong chapter there.

[IndyJill]

Hi everybody, I've been lurking a bit, but I thought I'd pipe up when something came up that I actually have info to contribute on!

So now I commence my first post!

I was at Indiana University in the late 80's/early 90's. At one point during my college career, there were 22 of the 26 on campus!

All the ones listed above, plus SK, ASA, and Tri-Sigma. The first round of Rush was called 22-party, and it was a marathon for all concerned.

[STL Kappa]

Actually, IU has 19 NPC sororities. Alpha Phi also has a strong chapter there.

I counted 19 the first time, but then only typed 18... I was wondering how I'd lost one, but thought maybe I'd just counted incorrectly.

Sorry you guys!!

[Sister Havana]

Originally posted by IndyJill

I was at Indiana University in the late 80's/early 90's. At one point during my college career, there were 22 of the 26 on campus!

All the ones listed above, plus SK, ASA, and Tri-Sigma. The first round of Rush was called 22-party, and it was a marathon for all concerned.

Yay another IU alum!

I was at IU in the early-mid 90s. (and again in 2001) All three of those sororities closed their chapters in 1994 or 1995.

There is a Greek Walk in the old part of campus with stones that have the names of all the fraternities and sororities (NPC, IFC and I think NPHC) that have ever had chapters at IU and their founding dates. IU has had chapters of 25 of the 26 NPC sororities at one point or another. AST is the only NPC sorority that has never had a chapter at IU.

[PSUSigKap]

The only NPC sorority which hasn't had a chapter at Penn State's main campus at University Park is AST. However their GQ chapter is at the Behrend campus.

The others who have been at PSU-University Park are:

AGD - AM chapter - closed 2001
AEF - AZ chapter
DFE - DP chapter - closed 1966
QFA - R chapter
FSS - BH chapter

I'm not sure of the other closing dates. QFA has had an interest group for a while, but Panhellenic hasn't been open to expansion since we lost AGD, and probably won't be for a while.

[AOPIHottie]

Since Penn seems to have the most, are ALL of those chapters currently active? I could not imagine having to go to THAT many parties in 1 week or I guess 2??
IndyJill, was it a high competition among the 22 that were all there? Imagine the stress for PNMs!!!

[PSUSigKap]

Originally posted by ms_gwyn

Penn State has 20 NPC's -- Since ariesrising beat me to it....here are the orgs


Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Pi Beta Phi
Phi Mu
Sigma Delta Tau
Sigma Kappa
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Zeta Tau Alpha

All 20 are active. It really is RUSH! When I went through there were 21 chapters, and it was spread over 2 weeks. Fall recruitment 2003 (my last one), with 20 chapters was done in a week and a couple days because of Labor Day, football games, Jewish holidays and when Homecoming was. It was crazy!!!

On a side note, Penn is the University of Pennsylvania, not Penn State. Sorry, we're just a little sensitive to that.

[TxAPhi]

Originally posted by AOPIHottie
But does anyone know what college campus has the most ACTIVE amount of sororities? I know there is no campus that has all 26 NPC sororities, but is there a campus that has a large amount? And I am only refering to NPC organizations, not locals.

The Recruitment Redefined article which was featured in a lot of group's magazines last year has a breakdown of how many groups are on campuses. Only 9% have 10–21 NPC groups, so it is indeed uncommon to have a "large" system. This article also talks about the new recruitment styles. It is still online at chiomega.com


Campuses are different:
63% have four NPC groups or less
28% have 5–9 NPC groups
9% have 10–21 NPC groups

Quotas vary:
17% have Quotas less than 10
24% have Quotas of 11–10
18% have Quotas of 20–29
19% have Quotas over 30
22% have unknown Quotas

• Sixty percent of campuses have Greek communities considered small or very small, with no more than four NPC groups. Forty-one percent have new members numbering not more than 18 annually.
• Many campuses have growing recruitment numbers; others have declining numbers.
• Many campuses have a tradition of students living on campus; others are strictly commuter campuses.

[Adelphean]

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville has 18 sororities. This includes 14 NPC, 3 NPHC, and 1 MCGLO