The recognition of fraternities and sororities is, at all times, solely at the discretion of The University of Alabama. Generally, to be recognized, a fraternity or sorority must be an affiliated, registered student organization with the Office of Student Involvement, and be in good standing with the University as well as one of the four Greek governing councils (Alabama Panhellenic Association (APA), Interfraternity Council (IFC), National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the United Greek Council (UGC)). Furthermore, all organizations must be chartered at The University of Alabama and membership must be exclusive to full-time University of Alabama students. Citywide or metropolitan chapters will not be recognized. For more information about recognition, please refer to the University’s Standards for Social Fraternities and Sororities.
Students and/or inter/national organizations interested in bringing a fraternity or sorority to The University of Alabama, should refer to the OFSL Extension Packet and Timeline and contact Kathleen Duffy with questions.
The University of Alabama is home to 71 fraternities and sororities. For more information about individual organizations, please select the links below.
The Alpha Upsilon chapter of Alpha Chi Omega was chartered on the University of Alabama campus on September 9, 1924. The Alpha Upsilon chapter is recognized by the national organization as one of the strongest and most outstanding chapters in the nation. The chapter has received numerous national honors and awards, including several national council…
Alpha Delta Chi is the National Christian Sorority that provides a place for women to grow spiritually, scholastically, and socially.…
Alpha Delta Phi (ΑΔΦ, also Alpha Delt, A.D. or ADPhi) is a North American Greek-letter secret and social college fraternity. Alpha Delta Phi was originally founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Its 50,000+ alumni include former Presidents and Senators of the United States, as…
Eta chapter of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, founded at The University of Alabama in 1907. Our chapter is committed to sisterhood, values, ethics, high academic standards and social responsibility. Our open motto “We live for each other,” encompasses the foundation upon which Alpha Delta Pi was founded.…
Alpha Epsilon Pi is the world’s Jewish college fraternity. We develop leadership for the future of the American Jewish community. Tomorrow’s Jewish leaders are in our chapters today. These are the young men who must be counted upon to support Jewish causes and to prepare to be one of tomorrow’s Jewish leaders…
Alpha Gamma Delta was officially founded on May 30, 1904 at the home of Dr. Wellesley Perry Coddington, a professor at Syracuse University who was instrumental in the early development of Alpha Gamma Delta. Each of the Fraternity’s 11 founders were progressive women who selflessly contributed to the foundation and growth of Alpha Gamma Delta.…
On January 15, 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became the first Greek-lettered organization established in the United States by and for Black women. Her roots date back to Howard University, Washington, DC, where the idea of formation was conceived by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle of St. Louis, Missouri. She viewed the Sorority as an instrument for…
Alpha Kappa Lambda (ΑΚΛ) is an American collegiate social fraternity for men founded at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1914. Today, it operates approximately 45 active chapters and colonies and has approximately 25,000 initiated members. Alpha Kappa Lambda was founded on April 22, 1914 by a group of young men attending the University of…
Alpha Omega Epsilon promotes ideals and objectives to help further the advancement of female engineers and technical scientists, while at the same time encouraging bonds of lifelong friendships among members. Alpha Omega Epsilon members value “friendship, leadership, and professionalism.” Friendship lies at the heart of every activity in which Alpha Omega Epsilon members participate. Leadership…
Alpha Omicron Pi was founded on January 2, 1897 in Barnard College of Columbia University in New York. Our four founders are Jessie Wallace Hughan, Helen St. Clair Mullan, Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, and Stella George Perry. “The object of this fraternity shall be to encourage spirit of fraternity and love among its members; to stand…
Founded in 1872, Alpha Phi is the 4th oldest national women’s sorority, and was the first women’s society to use Greek letters as an emblem. Famous Alpha Phis include actress Kimberley Willams-Paisley (Beta-Northwestern), actress Jeri Ryan (Beta-Northwestern), President of Lifetime Networks Andrea Wong (Zeta Phi-MIT), first female treasurer of the United States Georgia Neese Gray…
Since its founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world. Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, by seven college men who recognized…
Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity and Foundation ΑΣΦ commonly abbreviated to Alpha Sig is a fraternity with 91 active chapters, 29 colonies, and 5 interest groups. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 10th oldest fraternity in the United States. The fraternity practices many traditions. Its Latin motto is, Causa Latet Vis Est Notissima (“The…
Alpha Tau Omega (ΑΤΩ) is an American social fraternity founded at the Virginia Military Institute in 1865. The fraternity has around 250 active and inactive chapters and colonies in the United States and has initiated more than 200,000 members. Alpha Tau Omega represents one-third of the Lexington Triad, along with Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma…
Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ also “Beta”) is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The fraternity currently consists of 109 active chapters and 19 colonies in the United States and Canada. More than 200,000 members have been initiated worldwide and there are currently around 9,000 undergraduate…
Beta Upsilon Chi was formed at The University of Texas at Austin in the spring of 1985 by a handful of Christian men who desired an alternative to the present fraternal lifestyle. A group of Christian men met and planned the “BYX Island Party” to formally announce the fraternity’s founding. It was the vision of…
Chi Omega is the largest women’s organization in the world, with more than 320,000 initiates, 178 collegiate chapters and 250 alumnae chapters. Founded at the University of Arkansas in 1895, every Chi Omega chapter is guided by six purposes: friendship, high standards of personnel, scholarship, participation in campus activities, career development, and community service.…
The Chi Phi (ΧΦ) Fraternity is an American College Social Fraternity that was established as the result of the merger of three separate organizations that were each known as Chi Phi. The earliest of these organizations was formed at Princeton in 1824. Today, Chi Phi has over 43,500 living alumni members from over 100 active…
Delta Chi (ΔΧ) (del-ta kai) or D-Chi is an international Greek letter college social fraternity formed on October 13, 1890, at Cornell University, initially as a professional fraternity for law students. On April 29, 1922, Delta Chi became a general membership social fraternity, eliminating the requirement for men to be studying law, and opening membership…
THE PURPOSE OF DELTA DELTA DELTA shall be to establish a perpetual bond of friendship among its members, to develop a stronger and more womanly character, to broaden the moral and intellectual life, and to assist its members in every possible way. IT SHALL ALSO BE THE PURPOSE OF DELTA DELTA DELTA to promote and…
Membership in Delta Gamma brings with it countless memories and experiences which will shape its members for years to come. Consistent with our Founders’ thoughts in 1873, our primary purpose is to create an environment for our members in which lasting friendships and our vows of sisterhood emanate all aspects of our Fraternity. We encourage…
Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ; also pronounced D-K-E or “Deke”) is one of the oldest North American fraternities with 54 active chapters in the United States and Canada. Delta Kappa Epsilon was founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class disaffected by the existing houses on campus. They established a fellowship…
Delta Sigma Phi (ΔΣΦ) is a national fraternity dedicated to building better men. Originally founded in 1899 at the City College of New York, we have partnered with more than 200 campuses to support more than 125,000 members throughout our history. We are dedicated to helping students learn inside and outside the classroom, developing campus and professional connections…
Lambda Zeta History On, March 23, 1974, the University of Alabama witnessed the birth of the first black sorority on its campus. On that day, the Lambda Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated emerged. Spearheaded by the vision of the twenty-two founders of Delta Sigma Theta, our 11 charter members set the standards…
Delta Tau Delta (ΔΤΔ) is a United States-based international Greek letter college fraternity. Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College, Bethany, Virginia, (now West Virginia). It currently has around 129 student chapters nationwide, as well as more than 27 regional alumni groups. Its national philanthropic partner is the diabetes research organization JDRF.…
The purpose of this sorority shall be to unite its members in the bonds of sincere and lasting friendship, to stimulate one another in the pursuit of knowledge, to promote the moral and social culture of its members, and to develop plans for guidance and unity in action; objects worthy of the highest aim and…
FarmHouse was founded in 1905 by a group of like-minded students at the University of Missouri. With more than 30,000 members, FarmHouse members are leaders in academic achievement, a strongly values-driven organization, and a welcoming place for all students.
On November 11, 1874, the Gamma Phi Beta sorority was founded by Helen M. Dodge, Frances E. Haven, E. Adeline Curtis, and Mary A. Bingham at Syracuse University in New York. A little over a hundred years later, a group of women came together on Alabama’s campus, motivated by the same guiding principles of our…
Kappa Alpha Order (commonly known as Kappa Alpha, KA, or “the Order”) is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. As of 2014, the Kappa Alpha Order lists 122 active chapters, 7 provisional chapters, and 33 suspended chapters. Along with Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Nu,…
Kappa Alpha Psi , a college Fraternity, now comprised of functioning Undergraduate and Alumni Chapters on major campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared commonly by the late Revered Founders Elder Watson Diggs, “The Dreamer”, John Milton Lee, Byron K.…
Kappa Alpha Theta was founded in 1870 as the first Greek-letter fraternity for women. We value our history and our long tradition of leading the way for women’s groups and women in higher education. Our four aspirations—we are intellectually ambitious, we exemplify the widest influence for good, we align resources to best execute our mission,…
Installed March 12, 1904, the Zeta Chapter of Kappa Delta at the University of Alabama was the first women’s sorority on the UA campus and the first women’s sorority in the state of Alabama. Zeta Chapter is Kappa Delta’s oldest chapter to have been active continuously since its chartering. Many leaders of the national organization—including…
Kappa Kappa Gamma offers a member experience ranging from friendship to mentoring, from leadership to service and from campus activities to a lifetime of community involvement. Our Sorority’s mission statement is, “Kappa Kappa Gamma is an organization of women, which seeks for every member throughout her life bonds of friendship, mutual support, opportunities for self-growth,…
Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity (ΚΚΨ, colloquially referred to as KKPsi), is a fraternity for college and university band members in the United States. It was founded on November 27, 1919 at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, now known as Oklahoma State University, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Kappa Kappa Psi primarily operates as a…
Kappa Sigma (ΚΣ), commonly nicknamed Kappa Sig or K-Sig, is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1869. Kappa Sigma is one of the largest international fraternities with currently 316 active chapters and colonies in North America. In 2012, the Fraternity “pledged more men than any other fraternity in history.”…
Lambda Chi Alpha (ΛΧΑ) is a college fraternity in North America, which was founded in 1909. It is one of the largest men’s fraternities, having initiated more than 280,000 members with active chapters and colonies at 194 universities. Lambda Chi Alpha was founded by Warren A. Cole, while he was a student at Boston University.…
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. is the first international fraternal organization to be founded on the campus of a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The founders were three Howard University undergraduates, — Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman. Joining…
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students. The Founders, Honorable A. Langston Taylor, Honorable Leonard F. Morse, and Honorable Charles I. Brown, wanted to organize a Greek letter fraternity that would truly exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, and service. The…
Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ), also known as Phi Delts or the Phis, is an international social fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, along with Beta Theta Pi and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad. The fraternity has about 185 active chapters and colonies in over 43…
Phi Gamma Delta (also known as FIJI and Phi Gam) is a social fraternity with more than 142 active chapters and 13 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848. Along with Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta forms a half of the Jefferson Duo. Since its…
Phi Kappa Psi (ΦΚΨ, Phi Psi) is an American collegiate social fraternity founded at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania on February 19, 1852. There are over 100 chapters and colonies at accredited four year colleges and universities throughout the United States. More than 119,000 men have been initiated into Phi Kappa Psi since its founding.…
Phi Kappa Sigma (ΦΚΣ) is an international all-male college secret and social fraternity. Its members are known as “Phi Kaps”, “Skulls” and sometimes “Skullhouse”, the latter two because of the skull and crossbones on the Fraternity’s badge and coat of arms. Phi Kappa Sigma was founded by Dr. Samuel Brown Wylie Mitchell at the University…
Phi Kappa Tau (ΦΚΤ), commonly known as Phi Tau, is a collegiate fraternity located in the United States. The fraternity was founded in 1906. As of 2013, the fraternity has 146 Chartered Chapters, 81 active chapters, and around 4,000 collegiate members. SeriousFun Children’s Network, founded by Beta Chapter alumnus Paul Newman, is Phi Kappa Tau’s…
Phi Mu was founded in 1852 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, and is the second oldest sorority in the nation. We have provided social opportunities, a support network, and personal enrichment resources to members for over 150 years. In that time over 175 000 Phi Mu women have been vibrant members of college campuses and…
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the world’s oldest and largest secret national fraternal society in music. Sinfonia was born on October 6, 1898, at the New England Conservatory in Boston, when a group of thirteen young men under the guidance of Ossian Everett Mills met “to consider the…
Phi Sigma Kappa (ΦΣK), colloquially known as Phi Sig or PSK, is a men’s social and academic fraternity with approximately 90 active chapters and colonies in North America. Most of its first two dozen chapters were granted to schools in New England and Pennsylvania, therefore its early development was strongly Eastern in character, eventually operating…
Phi Sigma Pi is built on a Tripod of three ideals: Scholarship, Leadership and Fellowship. This Tripod provides direction in our organization, our programming and in our actions as Members. Combined, the Tripod guides our Members to be successful contributing citizens while at campus and into their professional careers.…
Pi Beta Phi is a premier organization for women that provides lifelong enrichment to its members by contributing to the betterment of society. We promote friendship, develop women of intellect and integrity, cultivate leadership potential and enrich lives through community service. Through sisterhood and social events, we develop sincere friendship and learn what it means…
Pi Kappa Alpha (ΠΚΑ) or Pike is a college fraternity founded at the University of Virginia in 1868. The fraternity has over 220 chapters and colonies across the United States and Canada with over 15,500 undergraduate members and 270,000 lifetime initiates. Pi Kappa Alpha was founded on Sunday evening March 1, 1868, at 47 West…
Pi Kappa Phi (ΠΚΦ; also Pi Kapp or PKP) is an American Greek Letter secret and social fraternity. It was founded by Andrew Alexander Kroeg Jr., Lawrence Harry Mixson, and Simon Fogarty Jr. on December 10, 1904 at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. The fraternity has 179 active chapters (160 chartered chapters…
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (ΣΑΕ, also SAE) is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. It was founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856. Of all existing national social fraternities today, Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the only one founded in the Antebellum South. Its national headquarters, the Levere Memorial Temple, was established on…
The Tau Chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu is a group of like minded gentlemen who strive for excellence in brotherhood, philanthropy, scholarship, and leadership.…
Originally founded in 1903, Sigma Alpha Iota is an organization which promotes interaction among those who share a commitment to music. Members of ΣAI are active in all areas of music and campus life, working closely with faculty, administration, and campus groups…
Sigma Chi (ΣΧ) is a social fraternity in North America. The fraternity has 239 active chapters across the United States and Canada and has initiated more than 300,000 members. The fraternity was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio by members who split from the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Sigma Chi…
On March 25, 1917 seven young women who exemplified self-confidence and the willingness to take a chance, founded a new sorority at Cornell University. The founders of SDT were discriminated against in the greek community based on their religious beliefs and thus created the first chapter of Sigma Delta Tau. Each one of these amazing…
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was organized on November 12, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana by seven young educators: Mary Lou Allison Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Dulin Redford, Bessie M. Downey Martin and Cubena McClure. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929,…
Sigma Kappa’s values are personal growth, friendship, service, and loyalty. These values are carried out on a chapter level through programming and chapter functions, and on an individual level by each member of the organization in their daily life. Sigma Kappa’s philanthropic efforts support gerentology and Alzheimer’s disease research…
Headquartered in Lexington, Virginia, Sigma Nu Fraternity was founded in 1869 at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. Sigma Nu currently has 172 active chapters and colonies on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada, and has initiated over 230,000 members since its founding.…
Sigma Phi Epsilon (ΣΦΕ), commonly abbreviated SigEp or SPE, is a social college fraternity for male college students in the United States. It was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College (now the University of Richmond), and its national headquarters remains in Richmond, Virginia. It was founded on three principles: Virtue, Diligence, and Brotherly…
Sigma Pi (ΣΠ) is an international social and secret collegiate fraternity founded in 1897 at Vincennes University. Sigma Pi Fraternity International currently has 124 chapters and 5 colonies in the United States and Canada and is headquartered in Lebanon, Tennessee. Since its inception, the fraternity has initiated more than 100,000 men and has 6,000 undergraduate…
Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity (ΣTΓ) also called “Sig Tau” is a U.S. college social fraternity founded on June 28, 1920 at University of Central Missouri (then known as Central Missouri State Teachers College). The fraternity was born out of the desires and aspirations of seventeen men in the belief that all men are social creatures…
The History of the Omicron-Xi chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon at the University of Alabama is long and storied from the days of our original house that sat at the foot of Bryant-Denny Stadium to our most recent success of officially returning to the Capstone. The brothers of our chapter have…
Theta Chi is one of the oldest men’s college fraternities in North America. Founded in 1856, more than 175,000 members have enjoyed the Fraternity’s traditions, ideals and fellowship. Founded on the principle of friendship through the mutual assistance of every member, Theta Chi aims to provide its members with an enjoyable and fulfilling collegiate experience…
The purpose of Theta Tau is to develop and maintain a high standard of professional interest among its members, and to unite them in a strong bond of fraternal fellowship. Theta Tau is a co-educational professional engineering fraternity. Having been founded at the University of Minnesota in 1904, it is the oldest, largest, and foremost…
The Purpose of Theta Xi is to provide a college home environment for its active members in which fellowship and alumni guidance lead to a wholesome mental, moral, physical, and spiritual growth. To that end Theta Xi actively supports and augments college and community efforts to make individual members more mature and chapter groups more useful units of society…
Zeta Beta Tau (ΖΒΤ) is a Greek letter social fraternity. ZBT was founded on December 29, 1898, as the first Jewish Zionist Fraternity. According to changes in policy enacted in its century of history, Zeta Beta Tau has moved away from its exclusively Jewish membership and Zionist mission of its founding. In 1954 Zeta Beta…
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 16, 1920 by five outstanding women. Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pettie, and Pearl A. Neal dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated on the precepts of…
Fraternities for women had barely begun on campus in 1909, when four girls decided that there should be a second group for women at Alabama; they invited five of their friends to join them, and the group petitioned Zeta Tau Alpha. The chapter held weekly meetings, and each girl participated in campus activities. Though in…
Founded in 1847, Zeta Psi strives to be the premier international men’s fraternal organization and is dedicated to encouraging academic excellence while forging lifelong bonds of brotherhood. Through active chapter participation and continual alumni outreach, Zeta Psi members are committed to the development of leadership, character and intellect as well as to the service of their brothers, their communities and mankind.
