The College of William & Mary fraternity and sorority system

The College of William & Mary fraternity and sorority system offers organizations under the Panhellenic Council, the Interfraternity Council (IFC), and the National Pan-Hellenic Council. [http://web.wm.edu/so/greeks/chapters/chapters.php The College of William & Mary Fraternity/Sorority Life – Greek Chapters] . Accessed September 30, 2008.] The school also offers a variety of honor and co-ed service fraternities as well. The United States' first fraternity was founded at the College of William & Mary on December 5, 1776. Phi Beta Kappa is an academic honor society which is still the highest academic honor a college student can be awarded. Some fraternities and/or sororities are limited to graduate students at William & Mary, while others may only be joined at the undergraduate level.

As of the end of the 2007/08 academic calendar year, 25% of undergraduate men and 27% of undergraduate women participated in the Greek system. The average fraternity size was 38 while the average sorority size was 70.

IFC social fraternities

*Alpha Epsilon Pi (1913)
*Alpha Tau Omega (1865)
*Beta Theta Pi (1839)
*Chi Phi (1874)
*Delta Chi (1890)
*Delta Phi (1827)
*Kappa Alpha Order (1865)
*Kappa Delta Rho (1905)
*Lambda Chi Alpha (1909)
*Phi Kappa Tau (1906)
*Pi Kappa Alpha (1868)
*Sigma Alpha Epsilon (1856)
*Sigma Chi (1855)
*Sigma Pi (1897)
*Theta Delta Chi (1847)

Panhellenic social sororities

*Alpha Chi Omega (1885)
*Chi Omega (1895)
*Delta Delta Delta (1888)
*Delta Gamma (1873)
*Gamma Phi Beta (1874)
*Kappa Alpha Theta (1870)
*Kappa Delta (1897)
*Kappa Kappa Gamma (1870)
*Phi Mu (1852)
*Pi Beta Phi (1867)

National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities

*Alpha Kappa Alpha (1908)
*Alpha Phi Alpha (1906)
*Delta Sigma Theta (1913)
*Phi Beta Sigma (1914)
*Zeta Phi Beta (1920)

Non-affiliated social fraternities

*Kappa Sigma (1869) — In 2002, Kappa Sigma withdrew their membership from the North-American Interfraternity Conference due to disagreements with the strategic direction of the organization.

Honor & service fraternities and sororities

*Alpha Kappa Psi (1904; co-ed professional business fraternity)
*Alpha Lambda Delta (1924; co-ed freshman year honor society)
*Alpha Phi Omega (1925; co-ed service fraternity)
*Beta Gamma Sigma (1913; co-ed business fraternity)
*Delta Omicron (1909; co-ed music fraternity)
* [http://web.wm.edu/so/nukappaepsilon/aboutnke.html Nu Kappa Epsilon] (1994; female-only music sorority)
*Phi Alpha Delta (1902; co-ed professional law fraternity)
*Phi Beta Kappa Society (1776; co-ed academic honor society)
*Phi Eta Sigma (1923; co-ed freshman honor society)
*Phi Mu Alpha (1898; male-only musical social fraternity)
*Phi Sigma Pi (1916; co-ed academic honor society)
*Pi Delta Phi (1967; co-ed French honor society)
*Pi Sigma Alpha (1920; co-ed political science honor society)
*Psi Chi (1929; co-ed psychology honor society)

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