While most Panhellenic councils spend September arguing about recruitment compliance violations and whether a chapter's Instagram post technically counts as informal recruitment, the Divine Nine organizations are out here running food drives, hosting voter registration tables, and putting members through scholarship reviews. Every semester. Without pause. I've sat through enough IFC and Panhellenic governance meetings to know that for a lot of chapters, community service is a box you check before formal. For Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, and the rest of the National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations, it's apparently just... Tuesday. ... 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

GreekRank values the following categories: Looks, Popularity, Classiness, Campus Involvement, Social Life, Sisterhood. A well-balanced sorority chapter should be equally succeeding in all these categories. We took a look at our own rankings, also considering academics, and then dived further into studying specific chapters to determine which 8 chapters are some of the most well-balanced across a country. Here’s who we strongly feel deserves to be on the list.... Read more

There is no better way to start a new year and a new semester than by hanging out with your sisters. Starting any semester with a sisterhood event is a fantastic idea. First, the sisters who take the responsibility to organize it had plenty of time over break to plan ahead. Second, everyone is starved to see each other after such an extended time apart. Lastly, let’s get real…its syllabus week which is the least stressful and least busy time of each semester. This perfect storm allows for early second semester sisterhood events to be some of the best of the year. Looking for some ideas for your next event? Here are three sisterhood events that started off the year the right way.... Read more

With the 2016 Rio Olympics about to start soon, we thought you’d enjoy a ranking of the sororities with the most all-time Olympians. These are strong women who make their sisters proud and continue to inspire. Included in the rankings are the sororities of the National Panhellenic Conference and the Divine 9.... Read more

For well over 100 years cultural interest sororities have strengthened the sisterhood between girls from all different ethnic backgrounds. These are some of the most open and accepting Greek organizations found on our campuses. Let’s take a look at ten of the best of the cultural sororities across our great nation.... Read more

While it might all look like fun and games, working your way towards becoming a beautiful and unique sorority takes years of perseverance from dedicated members. It's time to spotlight many of these exceptional chapters who have remained somewhat under-the-radar nationwide despite continuous contributions to their universities and sisterhoods.... 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