DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...

, a small

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located in Greencastle, Indiana, bears the distinction of having an unusually high membership rate in Greek

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, rating consistently above 70% in recent years. For 2014, DePauw University was again ranked #1 in Greek Life by the ''

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''. A position the school has held several times since over the past fifteen years including a stretch of seven consecutive years (2002-2008). Following is a list of DePauw University fraternities and sororities.

Active fraternities

Alpha Tau Omega Alpha Tau Omega (), commonly known as ATO, is an American social fraternity founded at the Virginia Military Institute in 1865 by Otis Allan Glazebrook. The fraternity has around 250 active and inactive chapters and colonies in the United Stat ...

- , ATOs, founded at DePauw in 1924. *

Beta Theta Pi Beta Theta Pi (), commonly known as Beta, is a North American social fraternity that was founded in 1839 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. One of North America's oldest fraternities, as of 2022 it consists of 144 active chapters in the Unite ...

- , Betas, founded at DePauw in 1845. * Delta Tau Delta - , Delts, founded at DePauw in 1882. *

Delta Upsilon Delta Upsilon (), commonly known as DU, is a collegiate men's fraternity founded on November 4, 1834 at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is the sixth-oldest, all-male, college Greek Letter Organizations#Greek letters, Greek-let ...

- , DUs, founded at DePauw in 1887. * Lambda Sigma Upsilon - , Elegua, founded at DePauw in 2012. *

Phi Delta Theta Phi Delta Theta (), commonly known as Phi Delt, is an international secret and 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 ...

- , Phi Delts, founded at DePauw in 1868. *

Phi Gamma Delta Phi Gamma Delta (), commonly known as Fiji, is a social fraternity with more than 144 active chapters and 10 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, in 1848. Along with Phi Kappa Psi, Phi ...

- /FIJI, founded at DePauw in 1856. Currently the oldest active chapter of its fraternity. * Phi Kappa Psi - , Phi Psis, founded at DePauw in 1865. * Sigma Chi - , Sigs, founded at DePauw in 1859. *

Sigma Nu Sigma Nu () is an undergraduate Fraternities and sororities in North America, college fraternity founded at the Virginia Military Institute on January 1, 1869. The fraternity was founded by James Frank Hopkins, Greenfield Quarles and James McIlva ...

- , Beta Beta Chapter, Sig Nus or SNus, founded at DePauw in 1890. * Sigma Alpha Epsilon - , SAEs, founded at DePauw in 1949. Suspended by its national organization during the 2016-2017 academic year. The fraternity became active again in 2019.

Active sororities

* Alpha Chi Omega - ΑΧΏ -Alpha chapter, founded at DePauw in 1885. * Alpha Phi - -Gamma chapter, founded at DePauw in 1887 * Delta Gamma - -Gamma Iota, founded at DePauw in 1949 * Kappa Alpha Theta - -Alpha chapter, founded at DePauw in 1870, Theta is the first Greek-letter women's fraternity. *

Kappa Kappa Gamma Kappa Kappa Gamma (), also known simply as Kappa or KKG, is a collegiate sorority founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States. It has a membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States a ...

- -Iota chapter, founded at DePauw in 1875. *

Pi Beta Phi Pi Beta Phi (), often known simply as Pi Phi, is an international women's fraternity founded at Monmouth College, in Monmouth, Illinois on April 28, 1867 as I. C. Sorosis, the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after ...

- -Indiana Epsilon chapter, founded at DePauw in 1942. * Psi Lambda Xi - -A local sorority founded in March, 2007. *

Alpha Kappa Alpha Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. () is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen stud ...

Zeta Phi Beta Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. () is a historically African American sorority. In 1920, five women from Howard University envisioned a sorority that would raise the consciousness of their people, encourage the highest standards of scholastic achie ...

* Sigma Lambda Gamma *

Omega Phi Beta Omega Phi Beta () is a sorority founded on March 15, 1989 at the State University of New York in Albany, New York by seventeen women of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. It is a member organization of National Association of Latino Fratern ...

Delta Sigma Theta Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. () is a historically African American sorority. The organization was founded by college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that assist the African American community. Delta ...

Inactive fraternities

* Delta Kappa Epsilon * Lambda Chi Alpha *

Delta Chi Delta Chi () is an international Fraternities and sororities, Greek letter collegiate social fraternity formed on October 13, 1890, at Cornell University, initially as a professional fraternity for law students. On April 30, 1922, Delta Chi be ...

Inactive sororities

* Alpha Gamma Delta *

Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Omicron Pi (, AOII, Alpha O) is an international women's fraternity founded on January 2, 1897, at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. The main archive URL iThe Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage "AOI ...

* Delta Delta Delta * Delta Zeta

Specialized Greek-letter organizations

Alpha Phi Omega Alpha Phi Omega (), commonly known as APO, but also A-Phi-O and A-Phi-Q, is a coeducational service fraternity. It is the largest collegiate fraternity in the United States, with chapters at over 350 campuses, an active membership of over 25,0 ...

- A coeducational volunteerism/service fraternity. Active. *

Alpha Psi Omega Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society () is an American recognition fraternity for participants in collegiate theatre. History The ''Alpha Cast'' (Alpha Psi Omega's term for "chapter") was founded at Fairmont State College (now Fair ...

- A coeducational honor society for students involved in the theatrical arts. Active. *

Eta Sigma Phi Eta Sigma Phi () is a collegiate honor society for the study of Classics. It grew out of a local undergraduate classical club founded by a group of students in the Department of Greek at the University of Chicago in 1914. This organization late ...

- A coeducational honor society for students involved in the Classics. Active. * Chi Alpha Sigma - A coeducational honor society for athletes. Alpha chapter was founded at DePauw by former head football coach Nick Mourouzis. Active. *

Mu Phi Epsilon Mu Phi Epsilon () is a co-ed international professional fraternity, professional music fraternity. It has over 75,000 members in 227 collegiate chapters and 113 Alumnus/a, alumni chapters in the US and abroad. History Mu Phi Epsilon was founde ...

- A coeducational music fraternity. Active. * Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia - A men's music fraternity. Inactive. * Sigma Delta Chi - Now known as the

Society of Professional Journalists The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi, is the oldest organization representing journalists in the United States. It was established on April 17, 1909, at DePauw University,2009 SPJ Annual Report, letter ...

, the national organization was founded at DePauw in 1909. Active.

Sources

* https://web.archive.org/web/20070528160952/http://www.depauw.edu/student/greek/greeklistings.asp * http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17940 * http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=16880

Notes

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