We scoured Etsy, Pinterest, and sorority blogs from eight years ago to find some of the all-time best fraternity coolers out there. Mountain weekend, beach weekend, formal -- it doesn’t matter the occasion. You’re not truly initiated until a girl paints your Igloo. ... Read more

Suspensions, hazing, movie deals. It's been a crazy week in Greek life around the country. Here are the biggest fraternity and sorority headlines. DA To Announce Results From Penn State Investigation  Results into the death of a Beta Theta Pi fraternity pledge are scheduled to be live-streamed on Monday, November 13th.... Read more

Spring is right around the corner. Most schools that conduct formal recruitment during the spring semester have recently welcomed their new babies. Just as we have for the last several years, we’ve assembled the data to determine what sororities/fraternities are on top of the Greek rankings. We’ve had some shakeups in our rankings from last semester. Here are GreekRank’s Spring 2017’s top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked... Read more

It is that time of the year again. Recruitment season is about to be in full swing. Potential new members from across the country are looking to find the best sisterhood/brotherhood for them to spend the next 4 years with. We've had some shakeups in our rankings from last semester. Here are GreekRank's Fall 2016 top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked.... Read more

There are a lot of great fraternity philanthropies. They all have worthy causes that aid brothers in living their noble creeds. Some philanthropic efforts, although, have recently been going above and beyond. Here’s a list of the top 5 fraternity philanthropies of 2015.... Read more

While there are plenty of excellent colleges without much of a Greek Life, it’s important to acknowledge the positive influence that having a strong Greek Life presence on campus offers students. From the percentage of undergraduate students involved in Greek Life to the number of chapters on each campus, the following schools have risen above the rest. Checkout the following list of colleges across the country that offer the best Greek Life experiences by the numbers:... Read more

Greekrank.com has tallied up all of the ratings and rankings to unveil the fraternities and sororities who are the current all-time leaders in each of the following categories:   Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked... 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

Thirty pledges. A filthy basement. Injuries. Condiments. That's what law enforcement found when they responded to a Wisconsin fraternity this past week, and it's the kind of story that makes even the most committed Greek life defender go quiet for a second. I'm not a committed Greek life defender - I joined a fraternity sophomore year after spending my first year firmly in the GDI camp - so I'm not going to sit here and spin this into something it isn't. What happened at that house was hazing. Full stop. And the fact that frat leaders were actually arrested over it means this one isn't going away quietly. ... Read more

Every fraternity recruitment pitch includes some version of the same line: join us, and you'll have brothers for life who will open doors for you. It sounds good. It's also, depending on who you ask and which house you're talking about, either completely true or total mythology. I've spent the last couple years watching my male counterparts from various chapters either cash in on those connections or realize the network was mostly vibes and a LinkedIn request from a guy who never learned their name. ... Read more

I've walked through a lot of houses. Fraternity houses, obviously - that's my world - but also plenty of sorority chapter houses over the years, usually for study halls, mixers, or just dropping someone off after a late-night campus event. And every single time, I walk away thinking the same thing: the way sorority housing works is genuinely fascinating, and almost nobody outside of Panhellenic actually understands how it functions day to day. ... Read more

So a university decided it was finally going to get serious about Greek life. Crackdowns, new rules, oversight committees - the whole package. And now CNN is checking in to see how it's going. Spoiler: it's complicated. It's always complicated. Anyone who's spent five minutes inside a fraternity or sorority house could've told them that before the ink dried on whatever policy memo kicked this thing off. ... Read more

Every summer, incoming freshmen and transfer students start Googling things like "how to prepare for rush" and come back with the same recycled advice: research chapters, practice talking about yourself, dress well. And honestly, some of that is fine. But a lot of what gets passed around as recruitment prep is either useless filler or actively counterproductive. I went through recruitment as a sophomore - which meant I had a full year of watching people do this wrong before I did it myself - and even then I made some dumb calls about where to put my energy. ... Read more

Cornell just banned fraternity parties at annex properties, and if you read that sentence and thought "okay, that sounds reasonable," you're missing the bigger story. The ban came through a Student Fraternity and Sorority Life representative who delivered the news directly to Greek life leadership. Not a vote. Not a committee process. A representative telling chapter leaders what the new rules are. That's the part that should make every inter-council officer sit up straight. ... Read more

Cornell's president just put Greek life on notice in a way that's hard to dismiss. According to CBS News, Cornell's president said Greek life should end permanently if it can't be proven safe. Not suspended. Not restructured. Permanently ended. That's not a threat you make to sound tough at a press conference - that's a statement of actual intent, and every Greek organization on that campus should be taking it seriously. ... Read more