When guys start asking about fraternities, the conversation almost always goes straight to the IFC chapters - the ones on Fraternity Row, the ones with the houses, the ones everyone recognizes by reputation. But there's a whole other category of fraternities that exists on most campuses, and the fact that nobody explains the actual difference before you rush is a real problem. Not a brochure problem. A "you might join the wrong thing entirely" problem. ... Read more

Nobody ever explained to me why my fraternity was called what it was. Like, I knew the letters, I wore the letters, I had the letters embroidered on approximately seven hoodies. But the actual reason those specific Greek characters got slapped onto our house? Total mystery. Turns out there's a whole history behind this stuff, and it's way more interesting than the two-minute spiel you get during rush week. ... Read more

When guys start looking into Greek life, they usually stumble into the same confusion. There's the fraternities on the main row, the ones with the big houses and the formal recruitment, and then there's everything else. The "everything else" is where it gets interesting - and where most people have no idea what they're actually looking at. ... Read more

...that even the non-Greek world knows of these fraternities and sororities. They’ve made headlines for one reason or another. They were notorious, or the most rushed. They robbed banks, or raised the most for their philanthropy.... Read more

It’s spring semester! You’re nearing finals, more focused on beach week, and lining up internships for summer break. At GreekRank, we’re pulling rankings for the top sororities and fraternities in the country. ... Read more

Ever wonder if your university has the largest sorority recruitment numbers? If your fraternity has the most members initiated ever? If your sorority has the most alumnae chapters? Well, you are in luck. Here are the answers to some common questions about which univerity, sorority, or fratnerity has the most...... Read more

You have made one of the biggest decisions of your life to go to college. Congratulations! However, that’s not the only decision that you’ll have to make when it comes to college life. Another important decision that you’ll probably make is the decision to go Greek in college. Greek life has lots of benefits to offer to its members – opportunities to build a network, social/community activities to participate in, a strong brotherhood bond to maintain, and many more!  However, one of the biggest challenges college guys face at the beginning of their Greek life is choosing the right fraternity for themselves.... Read more

Virginia Commonwealth University just suspended a fraternity over hazing and assault allegations, and if you've spent any time around Greek life, you already know the basic shape of this story. Another chapter, another investigation, another university forced to act publicly on something that was probably an open secret for a while. It's not surprising. That's kind of the problem. ... Read more

There's a type of alumni event guest who shows up before the actives do, knows where the good snacks are hidden, and somehow ends up in every group photo. She graduated four years ago. Maybe six. And she is always there. Not in a mentorship way. Not in a "I'm chaperoning this for liability reasons" way. Just... there. Camped out like she never left. ... Read more

When I was in school, the worst internal conflict my chapter ever had was a heated argument over whether to get a foosball table or fix the back porch railing. We voted on it. Someone's feelings got hurt. We moved on. Nobody called a lawyer. Alpha Phi Delta apparently did not have that luxury, because the fraternity just filed a lawsuit against Greek housing organizations - and that's a sentence I did not expect to read on a Tuesday. ... Read more

Junior year, I had a thermodynamics exam on a Tuesday and hadn't slept more than four hours in three days. I was ready to just grind it out alone in the library like I always did freshman year - before I joined. Then my brother Marcus, a mechanical engineering senior, sat down next to me at the chapter house kitchen table at 10 PM and said, "You're doing the energy balance wrong." Two hours later I actually understood it. Passed that exam. And I remember thinking - this is literally what the whole thing is supposed to be for.< ... Read more

Bid Day at the University of Nebraska Kearney isn't making national headlines. It's not Alabama. It's not a viral TikTok moment with thousands of girls in matching outfits losing their minds on a quad somewhere. It's a small campus doing a thing that matters quietly, and honestly, that version of Bid Day deserves more attention than it gets. ... Read more

Before I joined, I followed three or four fraternity and sorority accounts on Instagram. Mostly because my friends were rushing and I was curious. And honestly, the content made Greek life look like a constant highlight reel - coordinated outfits, matching formals, philanthropy events that looked like they were professionally photographed. I thought I had a pretty clear picture of what it was. I was wrong in almost every direction. ... Read more

South Carolina colleges just handed us another reminder that hazing isn't a relic of some old-school fraternity culture that died out decades ago. It's happening right now, on real campuses, and according to a report from The State, hazing topped the list of Greek life violations across South Carolina colleges - again. Not for the first time. Again. That word should bother you. ... Read more

Every chapter has that one event on the calendar that nobody skips. Not because there's a fine for missing it, not because your pledge educator guilted you into showing up - but because you actually want to be there. For most chapters, that's Founders Day. And if your chapter is treating it like just another Tuesday night with a nicer tablecloth, you're missing the whole point. ... Read more