Greek Facts

• Students with membership in a fraternity or sorority are more likely to complete college.
• College graduates who were members of a fraternity or sorority tend to be more financially successful than those graduates not in Greek organizations.
• Colleges receive more donations - and in greater amounts - from sorority and fraternity alumni.
• Sorority and fraternity members participate in more campus activities and in more community service after college than others.
• The first fraternity was founded in 1825 at Union College, Schenectady, NY.
• The first sorority was founded in 1851 at Wesleyan College, Macon, GA.
• Seventeen of the last twenty-five US Presidents have been members of fraternities.
• Both female members of the US Supreme Court are members of sororities. Greeks, nationally, complete over 10 million hours of volunteer service annually.